Sara Groves is unabashedly one of my favorite singer/songwriters. Her lyrics can be brilliant and she loves a great turn of phrase. "When the Saints" never fails to either bring a hallelujah out of me or tears of thanksgiving and surrender.
A high school English teacher after college, she started to sing and write on the side, producing her first album just for friends and somehow it got around to becoming an album of the year.
She'd be embarrassed that I've called her fierce but this is what I love: I love that she is comfortable telling her audience about her most vulnerable thoughts like a blogger, but in a quiet, never demanding way. Her humility is palpable in her music and on stage but it never changes the strength with which she is speaking truth. Her vulnerability is her strength.
And I love how she both wrestles with her faith and often pronounces scripture over us for us to settle into and bathe in.
The truth she sings from this verse in her song, "The Word," is quiet but nonetheless poignant:
"People are getting fit for truth
Like they're buying a new tailored suit
Does it fit across the shoulders
Does it fade when it get older
We throw ideas that aren't in style
In the Salvation Army pile
And search for something more to meet our needs"
In this song, "I Saw What I Saw" Sara Groves tells us the story of how she receives her courage to love. Great Video. Great Song.
Where does your courage to love vulnerably come from?
Thank you Sara for being willing to put yourself out there and be courageous with the truth.
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