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Awakening - Sara Groves



     
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Dress down your pretty faith
Give me something real
Leave out the thee and thou
And speak to me nowSpeak to my pain and confusion
Speak through my fears and my pride
Speak to the part of me that knows
I'm something deep down insideI know that I am not perfect
But compare me to most
In a world of hurt and a world of anger
I think, I'm holding my ownAnd I know that you said, there is more to life
And I know, I am not satisfied
But there are mornings I wake up
And I'm just thankful to be aliveI've known now, for quite a while
That I am not whole
I've remembered the body and the mind
But dissected my soulNow something inside is awakening
Like a dream, I once had and forgot
And it's something I'm scared of

And something I don't want to stopAnd I woke up this morning
And realized that Jesus is not a portrait
Where stained glass windows or hymns
Or the tradition that surrounds usAnd I thought it would be hard to believe in
But it's not hard at all
To believe I've sinned
And fallen short of the Glory of GodAnd He's not asking me to change in my joy for martyrdom
He's asking to take my place
To stand in the gap that I have formed
With His real and His sweet and His real amazing graceAnd it's not just a sign or a sacrament
It's not just a metaphor for love
The blood is real and it's not just a symbol of your faith
So leave out the thee and thou and speak now

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Sara Groves (born in 1972) is an American singer/songwriter from Burnsville, Minnesota, near the Twin Cities and has some family in Vineland, NJ.

Sara received her Bachelor of Science degree in History and English in 1994 from Evangel University, a private Christian university in Springfield, Missouri. Sara spent four years teaching high school in Rosemount, Minnesota before recording her first album, Past the Wishing, in 1998. Since then, she has released five more albums and appeared on several others (see below). Sara has been nominated for 3 Dove Awards including "New Artist of the Year" in 2002 and "Special Event Album of the Year 2003" by the Gospel Music Association. She was named one of the best Christian music artists of 2005 and the album, Add to the Beauty, was named "Album of the Year" for 2005 by CCM Magazine. In 2009 Fireflies & Songs earned enough votes from a panel of ten music critics to be named Christianity Today's Album of the Year. The magazine explained their choice: "Already known for her transparent songwriting, Sara Groves gets even more piercingly honest on this, her ninth album. Whether her relationship with God, marital tension, or a private battle with anxiety, it's poetically spilled forth in Groves' call for the church to 'live confessionally.' And paired with less poppy, stripped-down arrangements, her achingly clear vocal remains front and center. This is vintage Groves—yet more herself than ever." (Source It's Me Songfacts).


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