“That’s Okay” by Fepeste

Eric Jett calls his music “dad jams about faith, hope, and worries.” His laidback songs, which occasionally evoke Fleet Foxes with some ’60s surf riffs and Richard Swift studio weirdness mixed in, are exactly the sort of music you can imagine middle-aged millennial dads listening to whilst knocking back some cold ones around the firepit.

But there’s a disarming humility to “That’s Okay” that plays out in Jett’s lyrics about faith and life, as he sings about God’s sovereignty (“His word goes out watering the ground/Causing some to sprout and others to drown”) and finding relief in his own limited, insignificant nature:

There’ll be a final day
That this song is played
Like the grass that fades
And I’ll go to my grave
And you won’t know my name
That’s okay, that’s okay

Back in 2014, I wrote about my own sense of comfort at not living an “epic” life. “That’s Okay” feels like a sort of musical accompaniment. We’re constantly bombarded by social media, influencers, and news headlines urging us to worry about this, that, and everything, or to maximize our lives. Thus, it’s good to be reminded that we’re not, in fact, called to live epic lives that’ll change the world. Rather, it’s enough to just live our mundane, ordinary lives faithfully and humbly as best we can.

Fepeste’s upcoming album, This World Ain’t Mine to Change, will be released by Velvet Blue Music on October 24, 2025.