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Load-Bearing

Selah Covenant
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Selah Covenant
Gospel3:24April 19, 2026
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Influenced by Lauren Daigle, CeCe Winans, Patty Griffin, Joni Mitchell. Selah Covenant has built, and rebuilt, her life three times over. Raised in New Mexico by a Tewa potter and an Irish stonemason, she learned faith with her hands. After three marriages—one a soft parting, one a storm, one a quiet dawn—she writes songs on the old Martin guitar her father gave her, not about fairy-tale endings, but about the beautiful, difficult work of mending what's broken. Her music is for anyone who has ever had to start over.

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
The plaster dust settled on the dining room table,
Tasted like chalk on my tongue in July.
Every two-by-four screamed with a memory's ghost,
Found your wedding ring caught on a floorboard nail.

[Chorus]
This ain't pretty, it's load-bearing faith,
Holding the roof up in God's hard rain.
More than a feeling, it's the joist and the beam,
The Grace that you can't see, holding up everything.

[Verse 2]
My father knelt down in the splintered pine doorway,
His calloused thumb tracing the split in the wood.
Said, "Darlin', a plumb line don't care about sorry,
It only cares 'bout what's level and good."

[Chorus]
This ain't pretty, it's load-bearing faith,
Holding the roof up in God's hard rain.
More than a feeling, it's the joist and the beam,
The Grace that you can't see, holding up everything.

[Bridge]
Some people pray for a brand new foundation,
I'm patching the cracks with my praise and my sweat.
The strongest walls know a sledgehammer's mercy;
This house ain't finished with me yet.

[Chorus]
This ain't pretty, it's load-bearing faith,
Holding the roof up in God's hard rain.
More than a feeling, it's the joist and the beam,
The Grace that you can't see, holding up everything.

[Outro]
My hands on the hammer... amen... amen.

About Selah Covenant

Selah Covenant has built, and rebuilt, her life three times over. Raised in New Mexico by a Tewa potter and an Irish stonemason, she learned faith with her hands. After three marriages—one a soft parting, one a storm, one a quiet dawn—she writes songs on the old Martin guitar her father gave her, not about fairy-tale endings, but about the beautiful, difficult work of mending what's broken. Her…

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