The words of this spontaneous song are an outflow from a silent retreat I recently completed. The retreat’s purpose was to rest and simply be, listening and letting the Lord finish His sentences. To come and linger is a theme for me this year. As a mom of sweet littles, it can be challenging for me to make space to sit and be still. But my family needs me calibrated to Love every day. It’s in these moments when I wait with God that I find what is most important for the day. I receive daily bread that satisfies not only myself; it can be broken, blessed, and multiplied to feed the 5,000 I encounter throughout the day. At my retreat, I was reminded of the Bible stories where the sun stood still. I felt the Father say, “I will still the sun for you. I will make space. I am time. Just come and be.” The Lord paused the sun during Joshua’s battle. Perhaps rest is even more valuable than I realized—worth fighting for. And worth the sun being stilled, whether literally or figuratively. In an earlier journal entry, I wrote a note from Jesus, the Faithful and True, “If you will wait with me, I will multiply your time. If you will wait with me, I will take care of the rest. I have carved a space in the rock for you. Come nestle here. Come sacrifice your schedule here. To-do’s will bow to ‘I love you’s.’ Your home needs you calibrated to me every day. Say yes, and I will make a way!” So this song is a conversation. An invitation and our reply. “Will you come and linger?” Yes, I love to linger with You.

// Improvised Lyrics:

Come and linger

come and linger

come and linger with Me

Yeah, come and linger

yeah, come and linger

yeah, come and linger with Me

I will still the sun

I will make space for you and Me

Oh, just come and linger

It's where I want to be

Yeah, I will still the sun

I'll make space to be

Oh, come and linger

Yeah, sit alone with Me

Yeah, just come and linger

Yeah, come and linger

Oh, come and linger with Me

I will still the sun

I will make space to be

Oh, yeah, I'll just come and linger

Sit close to Me

Yeah, I will still the sun

I'll move mountains just to be

Oh, yeah, just come and linger

face to face with Me”

Yeah, Jesus, we come to linger

We come and linger

we come and linger with You

My Bridegroom, I come and linger

I come and linger

I come and linger with You

I'll rest in Your tempo

My schedule's at Your feet

My to-do list at Your feet

And I will come and linger

‘Cause my heart desires to meet

Yes, so we come to linger

we come to linger

we come to linger with You

Lord, we come and linger

we come and linger

we come and linger with You

I will wait here for Your voice

If You want to speak

Oh, but I am so content

Just to wait here and be

And I rest here in Your choice

I desire to hear Your voice

but in silence we can be

face to face, You and me

Oh, we love to linger

we love to linger

we love to linger with You

God says that, "I love to linger

I love to linger

I love to linger with you

Oh, I'll stop time for you

I'll still the sun just for you

Oh, ‘cause we war with rest

Oh, yeah yeah

Yes, I'll stop the sun for you,

I'll move it back ten steps for you

I'll redeem the time just for you

Yeah, just come and linger

Yeah, cause I love to linger

I love to linger

I love to linger with you"

//Recording courtesy of Dimensions Center and Kevin McCroskey—Thank you!

Improvised Lyrics: “Bare feet runnin' down a dusty road.

Little boy, where you gonna go?

Bare feet runnin' down a dusty road.

Oh little boy, the places that you'll go.

I call you a somebody.

Oh don't ever think that you're nobody.

My son, you are somebody.

You are my son.

Oh yeah, my beloved one.

Oh oh.

You've worked hard all your life.

You're so faithful to your wife.

And I love the way you love me.

It puts me on my knees.

Oh yeah, it puts me on my knees.

Oh oh.

Every song you’ve sang to me, I hear it.

Every prayer you’ve prayed to me, I sing it.

And the way you walk for me.

Oh, we're celebrating here.

We're celebrating here.

You walk down my road.

I'm so thankful for what you've chose.

Yeah, you're running down my road.

Running straight to me.

Yeah.

My feet are walking next to you.

There wasn't a mile I wasn't with you.

We have many more miles to go.

Many more miles to go.

Yeah.

Walter, run with me.

Now pick up those dusty feet.

Come on my son, keep running with me.

Oh the places you will go.

Yeah.

And all the world will know.

Oh oh.

That this is my son.

Whom I love.

You are my son.

Who I cherish and I love.”

Seed Songs Studio Album Preview - Track 3: “Lord of Hope” // Lyrics: “Jesus, Jesus, Lord of Hope, ooh. Oh, the future that You wrote, ooh. My past can’t say who I will be. The cross has healed my history. My past can’t say who I will be. The cross has sealed my victory. Out of the ashes, I’m a testimony. Your heart is healing and Your yes has set me free.” Songwriters: Kalyn Burke and Garett Reding 2016. Producer: Garett Reding, 2023. Seed Songs album performed by Kalyn Burke, 2023.

Seed Songs Studio Album Preview - Track 2: “Cherished and Loved” // I originally wrote this song for my daughter when she was a baby. It wasn’t long until I realized that God sings this song over all of his kids. So, this song is for you. You are invited to receive this song as Father God (you might call Him Abba, Pappa, Daddy, Papi, or another loving name) singing over you. I want the whole world to know they are truly cherished and loved. // Lyrics: “Cherished and loved, cherished and loved. Oh, how you’re cherished and loved. Your eyes shine bright with wonder. And my eyes shine when I see you. (Yes they do). Oh, how you’re so cherished and loved. Oh, how you’re cherished and loved, oh, ooh ooh. And I can see you. Yeah, and I hear you. Yeah, and you are known by me. You’re cherished and you’re loved, oh oh.” Songwriters: Kalyn Burke, 2020. Producer: Garett Reding, 2023. Seed Songs album performed by Kalyn Burke, 2023. // “Cherished and Loved” Copyright 2020 & 2023 Kalyn Burke.

Seed Songs - Studio Album Preview - Track 1: “Burning with the Wise” // Lyrics: “You will find me with my eyes looking to the skies. You will find me with my lamp burning with the wise. Precious oil, Your anointing. Holy Spirit, come. Continually fill me. Wake up, my soul! Can you hear the midnight shout? ‘Cause revival is a wedding. And the Bride is ready now. I’m coming in to meet You. And Your arms are open wide. I’m coming in to meet You. To see the love burning in Your eyes. I’m coming in to meet You. Oh, you always satisfy. I’m coming in to meet You. You’re pouring out the oil and the wine. Yeah! We awaken the Bride. With love in her eyes. We awaken the Bride. She has His love in her eyes.” // Songwriters: Kalyn Burke, Caleb & Taylor Parker, Todd Tovar, 2015. Producer: Garett Reding, 2023. Seed Songs album performed by Kalyn Burke, 2023. // “Burning with the Wise” Copyright 2015 and 2023 Kalyn Burke.

Instrumental

Improvised Lyrics: “Ooh, ooh, oooh gratitude, oh, I pour out to you, my gratitude. Gratitude, oh oh gratitude, I pour out to you, oh yeah. Let my thanks be a song, yeah, let my thanks be a song, let my thanks be a song of gratitude, yeah. Gratitude, I pour out gratitude. I have so much thanks for you. I’ve gotta pour out my gratitude. Yes, I thank you for being my rescue. Oh you ride across the heavens to come and rescue me. Oh, yeah, oh, oh, ooh. Well You have many names and you keep revealing them to me. Not just something you say but the things that You do for me. Oh, You are El Shaddai, You are God Most High, Yahweh Elohim, Jesus Christ is for me. Oh, and I elevate, You are God so great. You are lifted high, forever You will be in my eyes. Oh here’s my gratitude, yeah, poured out to You. Oh my gratitude lavished on You, yeah. Oh an offering is what I love to bring. I pour out to You, I pour out to You, yeah. Hallelujah! You’re my hallelujah! You’re my hallelujah! You are Faithful and True, yeah there’s none like You. God most high, to You I cry out with my gratitude, yeah. Here’s my gratitude, all poured out to You, oh yeah. (Ooh…) Something in the name, yeah, something in Your name. With every name You reveal, another part of me gets healed, cause You are the wholeness in me. The God of my design, yeah. God most high, You fully made me. And You return me to the perfection that You made. And all of Your heart that You gave. ‘Cause You reveal your name and another part of me is restored. Oh, and gratitude, here’s my gratitude, so much thanks for You, Yahweh. You’re the Rapha who heals. You’re the Rapha who heals. You turn the bitter into sweet. Yeah You’ve healed all of me. You’re the Jireh who provides. You’re the Pappa, my supply. I trust in you, and You’re open hand. You are my inheritance. You are the God who sees. You are my destiny, everything I need. Oh, there’s so much in the name, yeah. Yeah, there’s so much in Your name. Oh, and I give You my thanks for Your names. Ooh, oh yeah. Oh yeah, gratitude. Ooh, yeah, ooh. The God who’s present here with me. A trinity of three: Papa, Jesus, El Shaddai–Holy Spirit–You’re all God Most High. And my gratitude I give to all of You. Because You give all to me. Oh, all I need. I pour out my thankful. I pour out my grateful. I open my jar and pour it out far, all of my love for You. Hallelujah, Faithful and True. I’m so grateful for you. I’m so thankful. It’s a never-ending song of my life to sing, this offering of grateful to You.“