Mustard Seed

Verse 1

I wore a groove into the carpet by my bed

Saying the same prayer every night inside my head

Watching other people talk about the things they’d seen

While heaven felt a thousand miles from me

I kept looking for a fire out on the horizon line

A voice that shook the mountains, something I could not deny

But all I ever seemed to get were moments small and brief

Tiny sparks that disappeared before I’d sleep

Pre-Chorus

I almost missed them

Waiting for the sky to split

While You were planting something

Where I thought nothing could grow

Chorus

It was a mustard seed

Smaller than my fear

Smaller than the questions

That kept ringing in my ears

Just enough to trust

When I couldn’t see the end

Just enough to take one step

And trust You for the next

I wanted all the answers

Before I’d even leave

But You were growing something

From a mustard seed

Verse 2

I buried it beneath the weight of every doubt I had

The fear that nothing good would grow, the fear I’d be let down again

Winter came and covered up the place I’d left it there

And from above it looked like nothing but dead air

But underneath the frozen ground

Roots were reaching deeper down

While I was sure that nothing lived

You were growing something still

Chorus

It was a mustard seed

Smaller than my fear

Smaller than the questions

That kept ringing in my ears

Just enough to trust

When I couldn’t see the end

Just enough to take one step

And trust You for the next

I wanted all the answers

Before I’d even leave

But You were growing something

From a mustard seed

Bridge

A seed disappears before it becomes a tree

Breaks apart before it becomes what it was meant to be

Maybe all this breaking

Is making room for You

Final Chorus

It was a mustard seed

Hidden in the ground

Nobody would notice it

If they were standing all around

Now the branches stretch above me

Birds are singing overhead

I kept asking heaven

For proof that I could see

While You kept reminding me

It starts with a mustard seed

Yeah, it starts with

A mustard seed

Outro

Funny how the smallest things

Can become the ones that stay

Just a mustard seed

Just a mustard seed