1 Corinthians 13:13: "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
Mike's track title "What Remains" closes the album with this question and answer.
In the Greek original: nyní dè ménei pístis, elpís, agápē (νυνὶ δὲ μένει πίστις, ἐλπίς, ἀγάπη). Three remain. Faith, hope, love.
Mike's track is the album's closing confession. After all the tracks, value, falls, steps, lightness, light, knowledge, more-than-here, reading, un-breakability, comes the last statement: what remains is these three.
1 John 4:8: "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love." Love is not a quality of God alongside others. He is love. What remains is ultimately he himself.
Mike's sound carries this closing tone quietly, dignified, reverently. The album that opened with a value statement ("Because You Matter") closes with a being-statement ("What Remains"). Both bracket sentences of the son's life, connected through all the stations in between.
