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I love the collaboration that happened on Leaven Bread. It was a rare moment of us being able to gather in the room together, to talk about the text. To wrestle with the implications and to try to honor the context in which the words were written. This one made a full circle by the last verse and as we were writing it and singing together it felt like trumpets went off when we were able to fit all the pieces together. Songwriting is like catching lightning sometimes. ~Sandra


Written by Sandra McCracken, Flo Paris, Ellie Holcomb, Katy Bowser and Alice Smith

video credits
Produced & Directed by Emily Capo Sauerman-https://vimeo.com/uecaposauerman
Artwork by Kate Whitley of Little Things Studio-http://littlethingsstudio.com

I wanna tell you another story
All about a woman making barley bread
Flour and water out on the table
“We need a little leaven,” she said

So, she works , she works,
she works to mix the leaven into the flour
She works, she works
She works to make the barley bread

Mama, mama, how much longer?
How much longer for the dough to rise
Oh my children, don’t you worry
We just gotta wait till the time is right

So they wait, they wait
They wait while the dough is rising rising
So they wait, they wait
They wait for the barley bread

This is a story of the Kingdom of Heaven
This is what the storyteller Jesus said
The kingdom of Heaven is just like the leaven
That worked to raise up that barley bread

So we wait, we wait, we wait while the Kingdom's coming coming
We wait, we wait, we wait while the Kingdom's coming, coming
We wait, we wait, we wait while the Kingdom's coming, coming
We wait, we wait, we wait for the Kingdom to come
We wait for the Kingdom to come

credits
from The Kingdom of Heaven Is Like This, released 08 April 2014
Paul Eckberg-drums, percussion
Kenny Meeks-bas, acoustic, slide
Sandra McCracken-acoustic
Stephen Gause-percussion
Flo Paris, Ellie Holcomb, Katy Bowser, Sandra McCracken-vocals