Lancia E. Smith is an author, photographer, teacher, and business owner. She’s the Founder and Executive Director of Cultivating Magazine and its discipleship and creative team, The Cultivating Project. She has served in executive management, church leadership, school boards, and art and faith organizations for over thirty years. A recovering addict herself with more than forty years of sobriety, Lancia has done extensive support counseling. Her defining life focus is discipleship, expressed through mentoring, nurturing, and teaching. Lancia and her husband Peter make their home in the Black Forest of Colorado Springs. 

Let your roots go deep

Sit with me and talk awhile,

Here while there’s a quiet hour 

We’ll whisper with these witnesses,

These steady stars 

Who shine out in the universe,

Marking out this path of ours 

That only faith has eyes to see,

That ends in joy

CHORUS 

Oh, let your roots grow deep

Is the word of truth you heard

beginning to grow faint? 

Let your roots grow deep,

Let your roots grow deep 

Don’t give up the fight just yet,

Fix your eyes on Christ and 

Let your roots grow deep,

Let your roots grow deep  

Drink deep from the Holy Fount,

Whom angels praise and heaven crowns

He washes weary pilgrim feet

with Riversong 

And even though this riverbed

does not bear a river yet 

These trees that grow know underground,

Deep waters wait 

CHORUS 

The Kingdom that we see ahead, t

he joy of our inheritance 

Is built upon a Cornerstone

the world rejects

So, if today you hear his voice,

Still and small amidst the noise 

Don’t miss the call to fall into,

His open arms

BRIDGE 

Oh, let your roots go deep

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