Album

Maybe The Starlight

Released

2026

This newly released collection of songs (2026) is a hodgepodge of songs Molly has been working on for the past 5-10 years. Ben Shive produced the album, adding his brilliant, eclectic touch to every second. The songs, though nuanced in their stories and perspective, stay true to the vision of the The Lockwoods Music: they’re written “that you may believe”. The songs are rooted in scripture, honest and real, and beautifully compelling.

Listen to Maybe The Starlight

TRACK 1

Maybe the Starlight

I’ve always loved the story of Abraham’s life, especially how God led him under the starry sky to drop the promise bomb on him. The first line of the songs says “Maybe the starlight softened him that night? God spoke the words just right and Abram believed”. I wonder if God positioned him there because He knew that’s where Abram’s heart would be soft enough to actually listen, and take it in? I’m encouraged by the fact that “Abraham believed God, and it was counted as righteousness”. Faith in what Christ has done (the gospel!) is all I need. I just want (and need) to keep believing. That’s what “Maybe the Starlight” is all about.

TRACK 2

Fill Me Fresh

“Fill me Fresh” is a liturgy of repentance, essentially. I wrote it when I was wrecked by my failures, needing somewhere to put my shame, guilt, and need for mercy. I love the line “Please forgive me, not because I’m worthy, but because of Jesus and what He’s done” because it basically sums up the gospel. I can be forgiven and free. I really can. Even if I have to repent and believe hundreds of times in a single week.

TRACK 3

She’s So Serene

I remember starting “She’s so serene” when I was in a sassy, tongue-in-cheek mood. But by the time I finished writing the song, I was full of sincerity, longing for the peace and contentment found in this imaginary woman’s heart. Now I think everyone should write a song about their ideal self! I love that this woman lifts her hands and sings the hymn “Tis So Sweet”. I used to think the word “sweet” was silly to have in a hymn, but the more I learn to actually trust God and rest upon His promise, the more I’m resigned to believe that “sweet” is the perfect word for how trusting feels.

TRACK 4

Thank You For Making Me, Me

I never thought I would share this song publicly, but my precious husband wouldn’t let it go. He loved it and encouraged me to finish it, and then my producer Ben Shive urged me to read a passage by George MacDonald on “naming” to help me flesh out the second verse of the song. The MacDonald passage truly helped give put words to what I felt: that God knows my true identity, and sees me more accurately than anyone else sees me, including myself. This isn’t a self-love song. It’s a song of gratitude that I get to be alive. That God made me and keeps giving me breath and purpose. Not only that I’m alive- but that He made me uniquely me. Instead of despising that fact (which we can do in a million ways), I am choosing to sing my gratitude.

TRACK 5

True Love

I was really wounded when I wrote “True Love”. I felt anything but love toward the one who had wounded me, and this deeply troubled me. I remember singing the first line: “True love is like the sunlight…” because I needed to remind myself that I’m sitting in the transformational power of God’s love just as viscerally as I sit in the sunlight. His love can and will change me, just like the sunlight changes me (warms me, tans me). I’m not “on the outside looking in” on an epic love story, wishing I could partake; Rather, I’m right in the middle of it. I am still on a journey of learning what true love looks like in my life, but I believe it all starts in God’s heart: “We love because He first loved us”. 1 John 4:19

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