Bring Forth is divided into three movements:
Bring Forth: Dawn (this movement) - available April 22
Bring Forth: Day - available May 27
Bring Forth: Dusk - available June 23
By pre-ordering the full album you will receive each chapter as it is released. You can do that at
benthomasonline.bandcamp.com/album/bring-forth, or you can purchase each movement individual.
(Tip: Its a better deal to get the whole thing, but do whatever floats your boat)
BRING FORTH: DAWN
Dawn is the beginning. New life. The opening of eyelids in the morning, like the first opening of a baby’s eye, ready to receive light and take in the majesty of this wide and wonderful and mysterious world. Each dawn is an opportunity to start over… to look at the world around us in fresh light and to reset our perspective with the mind of a beginner. We are told that Jesus woke early in the morning to experience this freshness and clarity, by retreating from those around him while it was still dark.
This power and possibility in this same dawn comes to us each and every day. Yet, for many, it may transcend the literal and also become a season of Dawn we are being beckoned to… a season of revival and hope and dreams and potential.
Each of us are part of this giant cosmic story of life and death and rebirth, and dawn represents the starting point. And the starting point again.
Be still. Open your eyes.
You are alive and full of life.
Allow the light of life to hit you in a new way today.
A PRAYER FOR DAWN
And so we ask, Creator God - where might I find life today? Where might I be surprised by beauty in the unexpected? What new colors and sensations might I perceive today that would inspire me to give back to the very creation that called me from the ground today? How might I give back to this Life that is beyond me?
Give me the eyes of a child… a beginner. Teach me to hold my expectations lightly. Teach me what it means to give myself over to your Spirit. Expand my imagination, deepen wonder with in me, wake me to new possibilities and with each new day create in me a greater openness.