Guestbook

Chris C July 28, 2010 • 08:38 PM

Thanks so much for your music. I've been listening since Conversations, and have been so affected by your lyrics and the spirit of your vocals and arrangements. I'm so grateful for the way you are able to weave sadness, struggle, joy, and hope in lyrics that feel like thoughts and feelings I've had inside for so long. As a school counselor working with at-risk children, I am so thankful for your song, Maybe there's a loving God. So often we come to our life's work from hurts we are healing in our own past, and your music and words have given me mirror to see my own journey more clearly. Your new album is wonderful and if mp3's wore out like tapes, I'd be on my 3rd or 4th by now. Anyhow, thank you for what you're doing, and I pray for God's blessing on your family as you continue. When so much in American Christian circles is dominated by dogma and strident declarations, your sincere and often soft voice is so appreciated by so many of us who sometimes feel unable to relate to those divisive messages that are often the loudest. Great site too. Blessings, Chris

Steve Hixon July 28, 2010 • 02:09 PM

Sara - Thanks so much for coming to Crossroads this last Sunday night! Wish I could've spent more time with you, but everyone loved your music, your message and just talking with you. Keep going... take care, Steve Hixon Crossroads pastor

Kerry Kerr McAvoy July 28, 2010 • 08:00 AM

Dear Sara: I am a clinical psychologist who has been counseling individuals, couples, and families for the past 20 years in the Grand Rapids, Michigan area. I have recently published two six-week long Bible studies, Jesus, The Ultimate Therapist: Bringing Hope and Healing and Jesus, The Ultimate Therapist: Healing Without Limits. Each study can be used as part of a small group or personal study. Both books explore six different interpersonal roles with Christ. They use nontraditional questions to help the reader examine his or her current walk with Jesus. Each chapter also includes daily Bible readings, a meditation exercise, and a musical playlist to be used during worship time. Your work was included in the musical playlists. I included the titles of the following songs since they fitting the mood and topic of each chapter. The reader is urged to consider using your music as part of their worship time. The following songs titles are suggested: Book 1 Bringing Hope and Healing: Chapter 2 “Word of God” “Conversation” Book 2 Healing Without Limits: Chapter 4 “Our Friend” “Hello, Lord” Chapter 6 “Our Bridegroom” “Jesus, You’re Beautiful” I have been blessed by your work and hope that my recommendation of your songs will touch others. I would like to send you a complimentary copy of the first study. If you are interested in receiving a free copy of the book, please contact me at bkmcavoy@gmail.com with a mailing address. To learn more about me or the books, please visit my website, Living Life 2 the Fullest found at www.livinglife2thefullest.com. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Kerry Kerr McAvoy, PhD Licensed Psychologist

Lisa B July 27, 2010 • 10:19 PM

Sara, I truly enjoy your music. I love how deep and open you are in your songwriting. You capture life situations, emotions, and Biblical truths in a very beautiful and accessible way. Even after listening to some of your songs several times, I'll catch something that I didn't notice or think about before. About a year and a half ago, I was working late nights alone in a dark room. I had a couple of your albums playing on my computer, and I realized how much I loved your music. I never really had a favorite music artist before listening to your songs. I was really excited to come to your concert in Double Oak. Thank you for sharing your heart and your talent.

Melissa M. July 26, 2010 • 09:25 PM

Sara, I heard you live last night for the first time at your show in Dallas (Highland Village). I have always liked your music, but now I LOVE it. The songs have such a deeper meaning now that I've "met" you and know some of the stories behind them. I especially loved hearing about your work with IJM and your relationship with your husband. Thank you for sharing your life and your music.

Karen Townsley July 26, 2010 • 04:49 PM

Sara, can you please tell me how "Setting up the Pins" song came to be. I love it! And it really does remind me of my 93-year-old grandmother and her life. But I'd love to know your inspiration behind it. Thanks so much! Karen

Molly Brouse July 26, 2010 • 09:52 AM

Your songs are such an inspiration to me. I wake up to" All right here " every morning. I was inspired by a hymn in church Sunday morning "All is well with my soul" When I came home and listened to satalite radio I was sure I heard that same hymn and thought I saw your name on the listing. I have looked everywhere and can't seem to find it. Was it a dream? I would LOVE to find that recording. Can someone help me locate it. It speaks to me in such a way that I cannot give up the search. I don't feel that it was an accident that I turned on the radio to you. I sing with you every day. Thank you

Jennifer Elling July 24, 2010 • 04:47 PM

Hey, Sara! I'm a newer fan and ever so grateful for friends who got married recently and played your music at their wedding. . .Different Kinds of Happy. . .spoke to me so much (I've been married 18 years!!!). Thank you for your honest lyrics, faithfulness, and amazing sound. My husband & I have 4 kids. . .2 adopted from Haiti in 2008. I'm always looking ways to raise funds for His Home for Children in Port-au-Prince. . .esp. post earthquake. Would you be interested/willing in doing a benefit concert for them? Amazing Christian ministry you can check out online. We live in Cedarville, OH. . .home of Cedarville University. . .Amazing Christian university. . .So, Amazing musical artist. . .amazing orphanage. . .amazing venue. . .Amazing need to bring God's blessings to Haiti NOW. I know you've got to be so busy. I hope I'm not too bold in asking. . .Just please pray and consider!! Blessings to you and yours!

Kim Burnett July 21, 2010 • 09:03 PM

Sara, your songs seem like they're written after reading my journal. Thank you for your humility, your intense faith, and for continuing to write, sing, and play for God and for us.

John James July 21, 2010 • 08:20 PM

Sara, I have recently heard and loved your song 'When the Saints'. I don't know if you will have time to respond to this (or if someone else could for you) but I am curious about the 'young missionary' and his family in the song. Who is he and what is his story? Also the 'young girl huddled on the brothel floor, and the man of passion come and kicking in the door'. Who are they and what is that story? I understand all the other references, but I would like to know about these, both for my own edification and to add to the enjoyment of the song (which I already love!) Thanks!!

Lindsay July 20, 2010 • 07:23 PM

Sara-I have been so blessed by your music and the life you share with us through your soulful songwriting, the beautiful simplicity of your voice, and the bold actions of your life. Recently, two of your songs (and the music videos that put story and faces with the music) have had an incredible impact on my life-- "I Saw What I Saw" & "Love is Still a Worthy Cause" have challenged me to put love into action in bold ways that have required a new level of faith and trust in God. I'm right in the middle of it all right now- and these songs still speak to me. Your songwriting has a way of capturing all the emotions of life and relationship with God and people- continue on this path--- God is using your gifts in ways that you will never fully grasp. thank you for your faithfulness.

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Lindsay July 19, 2010 • 12:29 AM

Hi Sara, your music is such a blessing. If you're considering an o/s tour anytime soon, please consider coming 'down under' to Australia and New Zealand. Your ministry here would be a blessing to so many.

Rebecca July 18, 2010 • 06:45 PM

Five years ago I was fighting with depression and a dear friend gave me a burned disc (sorry!) that had your name written on it in marker. She had seen my unending tears. She handed it to me and said, "Just listen to this." Your music, your words helped me to open my heart to let the hurt out. "Less Like Scars" became my tapemeasure. I live in North Texas and am going to come hear you in Double Oak. God hears and provides. And heals. Thank you for listening to Him.

Kathy Larson July 18, 2010 • 01:36 PM

Sara, I am a highschool friend of Sherie and Mark Mc CLungs's. My husband and I moved away from Minneapolis 5 years ago and find ourselves homesick often- then we sit down and listen to your CD's. Today while I had a moment w/out kids I listened to your song "Painting PIctures of Egypt" about 5 times and cried and prayed. Thank you!! God speaks to my heart through your songs and it means the world to me, my family and my Savior. Blessings! If you see Sherie say "hi".

Larry July 17, 2010 • 06:10 PM

Love Your Voice And Message Your Uplifting Thank You

Sarah Groves July 17, 2010 • 02:48 PM

Can I have more information on the work you do in africa? I want to know about your trips and if you ever take people who want to serve. Thanks.

Charlotte Gentry July 16, 2010 • 09:37 AM

Oh, I wish I'd known you lived in Minnesota. My son was going to go to St. Olaf, and he decided to go to Tennessee Tech instead (where we now live, although I graduated from high school in Duluth in '76!) He might have had a chance to see you there. So come back to Nashville, or anywhere close, soon! (We live in Cookeville) Thanks for all your songs on "All Right Here", Charlotte

Sharon July 14, 2010 • 12:55 PM

Hi Sara, we missed you at Mt. Hermon last week, because my son fell on the jungle gym across from the field, so we were in the ER! I heard you were great, bless you and maybe next year? ps, he's doing just fine!

Randy Schnell July 14, 2010 • 11:10 AM

Sara: Yours is the only Christian music I listen to. It takes me where I want to be.

Cody Norris July 14, 2010 • 10:28 AM

Thank you so much for your ministry! Your music has taught me, blessed me, and drawn me closer to the Lord. Would it be ok if we use "Fly" in a wedding video we're making for a friend? Thank you so much! Cody

Amanda July 11, 2010 • 12:15 PM

I was wondering if there was any way to get an accompaniment for the song "This Journey is My Own". I searched online and couldn't find many soundtracks for any of her songs. I sing in church, and Sara is my favorite artist.

Sylvia Anderson July 11, 2010 • 05:15 AM

I heard "It is Well" on the radio this past week and would love to have the sheet music or an accompaniment trak. How can I get this? Thanks so much.

Munyaradzi Wesley Sarutsodzo July 10, 2010 • 12:28 AM

I've listened to your song 'Something Changed' and it's so touching. You truly have a unique talent. The only problem that i have is finding your albums in Zimbabwe. I want to listen to more songs by you.

Erin July 08, 2010 • 02:28 PM

Sara, I just love your new albulm. Every song. My favorites right now are "Twice as Good" & "Setting Up the Pins". Please don't ever stop writing and singing .... it's such a blessing to us and most of all to God.

maynard July 07, 2010 • 04:36 AM

I just discovered your music. A friend got married the other day (in fact, I'm told that she opened up for you once at a Virginia Concert). She sang "Fly" to her husband and I thought it was amazing... I went to itunes and started buying songs this weekend.... The lyrics are incredible... I don't listen to much christian/gospel, but I really appreciate your work. Thank you.

Aubrey July 05, 2010 • 09:14 PM

Hi. I just wanted to let you know that the Lord has blessed me by putting your music in my life. I am going to school for missions and i saw what i saw was a staple that really helped me accept the call. Now I am starting a ministry called Inspire India with Project Rescue where we sell art work and the prophets are going twoards Home for hope. My heart is really going out the girls of India and I know your heart has been broken for them as well. And now when the saints go marching in has been a staple and I just love your work and the way jesus uses you to speak to me and others. Thanks for following the call. with love.

SaffyJane July 04, 2010 • 07:55 PM

Sara, I have a question??? Random but whenever (which is often0 i listen to the osng, "Maybe there is a loving God", Are u talking about you, someone else, about how you feel or what. What motivated that song?? Oh and what does it mean by the charted graphs and things at the counselor and your mum crying... Your song smotivate me. Keep it up.. Saffy x x x :-)

Mary July 04, 2010 • 03:57 PM

Hello Sara, My name is Mary. I love your music and have been so blessed by your obvious love for God and your sweet humble spirit. So many times I have listened to a song of yours over and over as I sit in the presence of Jesus as it just seems to resonate with what God is doing in my heart at tht moment. I have a question...I write poetry, and it has always been my dream to have my poems put to music. I wondered if this is something you would consider letting me submit to you? I hope you don't mind me asking. If you have time to respond my e-mail is mlgmary@yahoo.com. God Bless you Sister! Mary

Joelle Kekhoua, MA, LPC July 03, 2010 • 07:05 PM

Sara, I have never written to a musician before but I felt compelled to let you know about my amazing spiritual experiences with your music, which have also never happened to me before. My business partner, Linda, & I are are psychologists that are answering God's call to work towards finding an biomedical solution to treating children suffering with autism, adhd, allergies, and other epidemic ailments. We frequently get discouraged and overwhelmed because in addition to this mission, we own a integrative wellness center (www.MentalFitnessCenter.org) and we each have 3 high maintenance children with these types of ailments. I just really wanted to thank you for what you do because I KNOW God gives you the words that are meant for so many of us listeners. Your album Tell Me What You Know has carried us through our darkest moments. We believe God speaks to us through your music. Usually when we hit shuffle, the first song is an answer to our most recent prayerful question/request. (i.e. after prayer of "why is it so hard to make the progress we are working so hard towards, God?!" then first song is Long Defeat and I feel like God is giving me a hug and saying, "Joelle, you can't just fight when you think you'll win...that's the end of all BELIEF", then my heart grows warm & my faith is renewed. Other times, your music allows me the cathartic avenue to express my heavy burden of the suffering of these children & their parents. While listening to Freedom, I cried my heart out & prayed on mother's day for all the mothers who weren't able to hear their autistic children speak, "I love you , Mommy". Thank, you, Sarah, for answering God's call to use your voice for His will ... and for giving God a human voice to speak to us in a way we can understand. :) Joelle Kekhoua

Denise Catherwood July 03, 2010 • 06:58 PM

Dear Sara, I have desired to sit with you over a cup of coffee friend to friend. I want to hear from you what was going on in your life when you wrote these songs. I can not keep my copy of Add the Beauty because I keep giving my copy to others. I have the words in front of me, but again the CD is missing...smile. I'm sitting at my computer just dripping with tears with my 4 kids in the room, not even aware. My heart is full of thanksgiving for the songs that God has given you to share with the world. They gave me the strength to hold on when my hope was gone and my heart was so full of pain. I felt that you were somehow going through the same thing. I guess I'll find out when we sit down for that cup of coffee. Smile.I have sung so many times It's Gonna Be Alright and Love Covers a Multiple of Sins. I love the entire CD. I'd love to hear your story behind To The Moon. I have a couple of ides... Thank you Sara for sharing your heart with me and so many others. A sister in the Lord, Denise Catherwood P.S.This is the first blog I've ever written to.

bethany huss July 02, 2010 • 07:34 PM

Dear sara, As a mom of 2 kiddos and 1 on the way- know that i do not expect a reply from you- i as well hardly ever am on email. But today, i really felt i needed to thank you for heeding the spirit and the words of the Lord in the songs you have written. My husband and i have always loved your music because it speaks directly to us. In the past 48 hrs i have felt such pursuit from satan and it really just came out of nowhere. seriously, just the other day i had come to realize that a lot of struggles i had gone thru and strongholds i had allowed in my life had really disappeared in the past year. until the other night. and one little thing happened and set me off to allow more and more deception and doubt seep into my little mind- had i made any improvement? I felt i was back where i had started! i'm overwhelmed by the strength of tension between the devil's powers. and for a while i felt no hope. as if the devil had come in and proclaimed "See, you never have overcome those old struggles, i know right where to get you!" So the verse that has stayed in my brain is Eph. 6:10-12. This is a huge spiritual battle! And then this morning as i was driving my kids to pick blueberries, i had my worship time listening to your cd past the wishing again. I'm not really a cryer :) But being pregnant the hormones truly let me know they exist and I was really welling up with tears of hope in my Lord and in HIS mighty power who has already overcome! I was encouraged by the songs Stir my heart and Rain. I accept the trials with joy and ask that thru them the Lord alone will stir my heart to remember his promises and sustain me and then later to truly have brought forth fruit in my life thru my struggles. Thank you for using your gift of words and Truth! They have truly ministered to me today! Bethany Huss Columbia, SC

Prayer/Life July 01, 2010 • 10:27 AM

Sara, thank you for the awesome gift you share with the world. I NEVER get to see you live. The one time we broke our necks to get to Riverside for midweek concert, you were ill. Should I drive 6.5 hours each way to hear you at Mr. Hermon, CA this Saturday????

Janet June 29, 2010 • 09:35 PM

I was introduced to you (your song) for the 1st time tonight at a Bible study we are doing at my Church. I heard your song "Generations" wow!!! was all I could say. Thank you for being obedient for allowing God to work through you to take HIS gospel through the music to the world. Continue to do His work and God bless. I went and purchased 4 cds tonight. I really love how you take His word and put it to music. Thank you.

Michael Blevins June 29, 2010 • 08:20 AM

Your album is beyond amazing. Brought memories from the long past that made me cry.

Skye June 28, 2010 • 10:39 PM

I just want to thank you for your music. Every time I have it playing, it touches my heart and my soul. I feel uplifted and refreshed. I can't say this about any other artists in my collection. Thank you.

Anna June 28, 2010 • 10:54 AM

Dear Sara, I have been listening to your music for the past 10 years. I am now 25 years old and have felt very impressed to write and tell you how much your ministry has meant to me. When I first started listening at the age of 15, I was inspired by you to keep up my piano practicing and pursue my heart for music. Throughout the past 10 years, I have purchased several of your songbooks and most of your cds. I love them dearly! What I appreciate about your music the most is that it points me back to the Word of God, His truths, and His heart. I think that you have such an amazing gift. Having friends in the music industry, I just want to encourage you...you are making a difference! I know that in my own life, I have turned your music on during times of heartache, joy, and contemplation. (And lots more!) I know that the only true greatness in a person's life can come from the greatness of God being displayed through us, and God has done great things in my life through the ministry of your music/lyrics. I think about a rocky time in my marriage, and then you came out with "When it was over". I think about "Add to the beauty", and how it spurs me on towards the effort of contributing towards Jesus' beauty. Your music consistently brings me back to my childhood and when a relationship with Jesus was simple, like a warm, sunny day. I love the hymn, "In the Garden", because it depicts that simple relationship so beautifully. I know I probably sound like an overdramatic fan, but I just wanted to TRY to convey how much you and Christ in you have made an impact on my life. THANK YOU! Lastly, this past winter I met you at your Christmas concert, and you encouraged me to write music. I am happy to report--I've started writing since then! "Christ in you, the HOPE of Glory."

Alix June 26, 2010 • 07:59 PM

Would you please post the lyrics/text of the Christmas reading by Toby Groves in the song "It's true"?

Debbie Porter June 25, 2010 • 12:29 PM

Hi Sara, I have been looking on ITunes for your duet "Traveling Light" with Joel Hanson. Where can I buy that song? Can't seem to get it out of my head. Don't really want to. Would like to buy it so I can listen to it over and over again! Debbie

Susan June 24, 2010 • 07:10 PM

Can you please write a book on marriage? K, thanks. =)

Paul Louis June 24, 2010 • 01:27 PM

Hello Sara, My wife forwarded me a song you wrote (on "you tube") about your visit to Rwanda. She is doing her dissertation on how womens' groups are leading the way in the peace and reconciliation process. She has inspired me to look at how we (my wife and I) can make a difference in Rwanda. Last year I went to Rwanda to help with the training of facilitators in the peacework, I am going to return to Rwanda to continue my work with peace education and peace leadership this year. Your song and the images that accompany the song are familiar to me. Rwanda is beautiful. Thanks you for writing it. In Peace Paul

Val Christner June 23, 2010 • 09:09 PM

Sara...thank you for always being transparent in your writing and in how you share what you've written..The Lord uses you to give courage to others...I agree with Charlie..enjoy the gift of writing our Jesus has given..He IS DOING IT (I Thess. 5:24!!!) and you and so many others reap the rewards!! Blessings from Wisconsin!!

Adam B June 21, 2010 • 10:14 PM

Best artist in the world! Good job - please keep it up!!

ForeverYoung June 21, 2010 • 07:14 AM

"Fireflies & Songs" just gave me hope again...hope was waning greatly. Thank you for sharing your gift with the WORLD!!

Alain June 17, 2010 • 07:02 PM

Thank you for sharing your God given talent, you've touched my heart thru the internet I'll try to p/u your album ASAP God bless Alain

Laura Wise June 15, 2010 • 09:54 PM

sara, thank you for sharing your precious gifts with His kingdom. your music has spoken to me in ways i cannot even express. your talents are greatly appreciated and loved. your sweet voice rocks me to sleep and brings rays of sunshine each day. thanks for the many things you're doing for His glory.

Danae June 14, 2010 • 01:39 PM

Your songs changed how I view God and the world. 'Why It Matters' is helping me to realize that I am beautiful and that God really does love me for me. I am His cup of water.

ANGE June 14, 2010 • 01:38 AM

hi!i am rwandese people my county is Rwanda and i need your help because i am orphans i need someone who can help me in my problems. thank you for your good response

Steve Francis June 13, 2010 • 07:15 PM

I just wanted to say thank you your music has made such a positive impact on this 39 year old. So raw and real saying the things I feel and believe in every song you write. May not meet you on this side but on the other. Thanks for a ministry that goes the extra mile every day.

Kayla June 12, 2010 • 06:40 PM

Sara! It's really wonderful that your music makes me have to reassure myself that I don't actually know you. Your lyrics make me wish I did! I picked out "He's Always Been Faithful to Me" to listen to on my 1 hour car ride to the hospital while in labor..so you are forever etched in my memory. Thank you for tenderness towards the Lord and letting parts of you be known to (so many!) people you don't even know. Your music really has a quality of coming along side your listeners and it is much appreciated.

Ian White (Scotland) June 12, 2010 • 11:20 AM

Hi Sara, I am thrilled to read and hear of your involvement in Rwanda. I visited there a couple of years ago as I was involved in a project in the Bugassera region. `I saw what I saw and I can`t forget it`. I am currently raising money to buy cattle for widows in that same region and want to make up a powerpoint presentation to use. I would like to use your song `I saw what I saw` as the background music and was hoping you might give me permission to do that. It would not be a case of selling the powerpoint but to use it to raise awareness of the cattle project. Any money raised is channelled through the charity Comfort Rwanda, www.comfortrwanda.org.uk and 100% of the money raised goes directly to buy cattle. Thanks for reading this. Blessings, Ian

Sara June 11, 2010 • 09:08 PM

Hi Sara, I was just introduced to your music recently and I have been so blessed by it. I was almost in tears right now listening to "Love." I think I am smarter than God sometimes; that I know best. Then He shows me that I am only on the tip of the edge of the emensity of who He is. His love is something that I am just recently knowing more of. I can't even begin to describe the heart-ache, longing, pain, & hope that I am feeling as i'm realizing more and more His love for me. I am full of wonder.

Debbie Nugara June 11, 2010 • 07:00 AM

Dear Sara, I attended one of your concerts in December. It was lovely and beautiful! From that concert you should know that a friend who came with me was inspired to "do more." Not only did she sponsor a child that day, but through many circumstances arranged by our awesome heavenly Father, she is now going to Africa herself! We joke that it's "all Sara Groves fault", but she is so excited to be spending an entire month this summer helping girls at a boarding school in Kenya. (The girls all have parents who have died from AIDS.) Isn't that just amazing? More than that, it's been encouraging to see what has happened in my friend's heart as she (Jackie) is coming to know God in a more intimate way. If there are any words of encouragement that you have for her, please pass them along to me and I will forward them to her. Afterall, YOU started it (ha ha!) Debbie N Pittsburgh, PA

Aaron Grissom June 10, 2010 • 08:39 PM

Hay yall, I love your music, especially the song when the saints go marching in,( such a great song ) but I had a question about the song. I've heard the phrase "I see the long hard shadows of Calcutta nights" before and its caught my attention again in this song. I tried to Google it to find out its meaning with no luck. if someone can help me with it I would be vary great full. P.S. Thanks for letting GOD use you in such an awesome way. the music you and GOD has made together really is great.

Fred Dohner June 10, 2010 • 12:10 PM

Dear Sara, Love "Conversations". Just got "F&S". Wow... Need to go back and get the others. You are special. God bless, Fred

Joseph June 09, 2010 • 06:26 AM

Praise King Jesus. Kudos Sara, great music, great lyrics, your voice is my favourite and I've been blessed through your music.

joan nelson June 08, 2010 • 05:46 AM

This is Joan Hartzler. I am currently a missionary in Madagascar (with the A/G). I have followed your career from a distance and am a huge fan of your songs. The depth and honesty with which you write has touched me profoundly. I am trying to contact you personally because I have an idea I would like to share with you or bounce off of you. It is not a request for missions, money, etc... I hope to hear from you. Joan

Rick Meland June 06, 2010 • 10:48 PM

Hello, Sara. Thank you for you lovely ministry. There is so much beauty, purity, and love in your music. I gave my wife your All Right Here CD; I wanted her to have "Fly." I'm a high school teacher (as you once were) and was listening to you on Pandora Radio while grading papers. I looked at your lyrics in a song (can't remember the title) where you speak of how real the Blood of Jesus is (more than a hymn, more than tradition). I know what I think you meant--Jesus is the reason for it all; the hymns and songs can only point to Him. What caught me was the line --"It's not a sign or a sacrament." I wish I could talk to you about this; I'm a Catholic, and I wish you could know how real the Body and Blood of Jesus in the Eucharist is! I don't want to be polemical, especially not here where you have graciously reached out to your fans with this guestbook. It's just that the sacrament of the Eucharist IS His Flesh and Blood; it actually is what it signifies. You can have Jesus in your heart and soul AND live a true one-flesh union with Him! Thanks for taking the time to read this. I pray that God continue to bless your ministry. We live in a world that desparately needs the hope that only comes with Jesus. Sincerely yours, Rick

Diana Jackson June 05, 2010 • 09:26 PM

Hi Sara, I hope your father who reads every day will relay my message. A friend gave me your cd to listen to and I was blessed more than I have been blessed in a long time by your music. It just lifted my soul. Every song spoke right to me as if you were singing just to me. Your voice is one of the most beautiful I have heard. Your music just touches the heart of God I know. Thank you for your music. I'm going to download all of your music. I lost my 43 year old sister last year to cancer and "Going Home" makes me cry - some days I can't wait to meet her in the air. "He's Always Been Faithful" reminded me of God's love and all the blessings He bestows every minute of every day. The "Tent in the Center of Town" - I grew up as a child going to tent revivals. Just brought back so many beautiful memories. I listen to your music constantly. Thank you so much for keeping on keeping on - May God richly bless you and your family - just as you have blessed me. Love in Christ - Diana

Amy Thomas June 03, 2010 • 07:26 PM

Sara, I met you for a spell at First Assembly of God this winter in Des Moines. I'm a friend of Tamara's. (Our kiddos played together while I painted...) Anyway, I bought your Station Wagon CD having no idea what I was in store for. I feel your heart as a mom and when I listen in my studio, I am so charged up to go out there again...to paint and more importantly to do my best to be these three precious children's mom. Your lyrics and the way you sing are so tender and it reminds me how holy this calling of motherhood is. Thank you for sharing gift from the Lord - I am better for having met you. Amy Thomas www.amywoodthomas.com

Barb June 03, 2010 • 02:22 PM

I love the song " It is Well". Where can I get a copy.?

Shari June 02, 2010 • 08:05 AM

Hi Sara, I know you may not be able to answer my question... no problem, just thought I'd try. I just purchased your new album and as a Christ follower, wife, mom and friend I can relate to every song:) I was wondering... can you tell me who you are talking about in the first song "Fireflies & Songs"? I love my Mom so much but our relationship is not easy - so many "piled on expectations and lots of blame". I'm praying for God's grace to humble me and heal our relationship...

John King May 28, 2010 • 11:25 AM

Sara and Troy, It was great meeting you and sitting with you at the IJM benefit the other night. Thank you for your work with them and for how your music is changing lives. Troy, great chat man. Best of luck for all that lies ahead. John King

Lenie May 28, 2010 • 12:03 AM

Try to write my best english (I'm dutch); I'll tell you how much your songs means to me. My husband and I are in a period that we have therapy together; this means: to look to the deeper things in our relation/ why we do what we do, say what we say/ what lays behind. Some times I feel tired, sometimes there is hope. I'm sure it is a good and necessary proces, but it is hard. In this time I listened to your song 'loving a person', it was on a collect-cd with other songs. This song came right into my heart.. It was the beginning of listening to your other songs. And I thank God for that. Really! I derive comfort from them. Some songs speak exactly from that what I feel. And what I need. For example: The Long Defeat; Something Changed; Different Kinds of Happy; It's going to Be Alright; When it was Over; and when I listen to 'Like a Lake" the tears are coming, just because I feel that this is what happens inside/ what I'm fihgting for. Thank you for this very special songs/ voice/ emotion/ being pure. It means more to me than I can explain in such a short e-mail. If you ever come to Nederland,for a concert I'll be there! God bless you and give you His peace, with love, Lenie

Lindsey May 26, 2010 • 10:22 AM

Hey! My aunt just sent me your CD for my graduation. I love it! The songs are so pure and you can feel the emotion of each song. I'm a rookie songwriter and your style is awesome. I'm enjoying "Fireflies and Songs". Awesome album!

Laura Wise May 25, 2010 • 10:47 AM

I am highly interested in getting a hold of sheet music for either or both for "Hiding Place" and "It Is Well with My Soul." I know that you do not sell or distribute music for either song, but would be so grateful if you could possibly send me some kind of sheet music for both. Keep singing, Laura

Melody May 25, 2010 • 09:38 AM

*Wishlist/Suggestion/Request* Thinking back on the concert you performed here in Greensboro,NC and wish to hear the version of Add to the Beauty that you did and all the other songs. You are so beautiful in concert and think that that concert on an album would be incredible. Love, love, love you live. The videos were excellent. Romelle leaned over all chokey in the middle of setting up the pins and said, "we are in her house! :*} Thank you again for coming and opening out eyes to The Good Shepherds Fold. ~M

Janet G Berry May 23, 2010 • 06:13 AM

I tried communicating via your blog, but hope this works better. I want to get your CD which has the song with lyrics like, "What if it's true, what if there's more...." I've looked for it but none of the song titles seem to fit. Can you help? LOVE your music, by the way, and I'm a 61-year-old grandmother!

Doug McFarland May 22, 2010 • 09:11 PM

I went to the Songwriters Workshop at Mr. Hermon last August. Your style is what blessed me. As a songwriter I now feel totally free to write as the Spirit of God moves me. I've never played piano until I wrote a song tonight called "I See the Christ in You." It's in a "Groves style" if I may compliment you again. I wish you could hear it. Thanks so much, Sara.

Lisa Taylor May 22, 2010 • 03:09 PM

Sure wished I could find the karaoke version of "How is it between us?" so I could sing it at church!! I love this song!!!

Sarah May 21, 2010 • 06:39 AM

Dear Sara, I am a big fan with a dilemma that only you can help resolve! I need something that only you can give: your autograph. My friend Lisa who is also my pastor's wife was kind enough to let me borrow her cd Tell Me What You Know. She handed it to me with the warning, "DON'T lose this, it's signed!" You signed it for her when she saw you in concert in the Chicago area. I'll spare you the tedious details, but am very embarrassed to report that I managed to accidentally throw it out with the garbage, along with a jump-drive that belonged to her husband! I am positively sick about it. She was very gracious when I apologized, however I know it hurt her and I need to do something here. I purchased another cd with the intention of mailing you the liner with a letter of explanation, in hope that you would be kind enough to autograph it; after much searching, I cannot find a mailing address. You are a busy woman with many fans! I pray that this will reach you and not add a burden to your day! Humbled Yet Hopeful, Sarah

Annie May 20, 2010 • 09:12 AM

Sara, I don't know the story behind wide open like a lake, but I wanted to tell you thanks for what it means to me. My daughter, who is 10, has a condition called Turner's syndrome and just recently she has been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. Each time we get a new diagnosis or new condition, it feels like a punch to my gut. With the latest diagnosis, I wanted to crawl into bed and cry for days, but of course, no time and my daughter and family need their mom. I cracked open your latest and soaked in Open like a lake....When I get discouraged because she has a hard day, or she questions, "Why me?" I am able to offer her what I believe the Lord has for her to hear...I am able to stay open to Him in these hard times because your song runs thru my mind over and over. So, God bless you, your family, your music and your ministry. Your music means a lot to me! Annie Perry

Gary VanRiper May 18, 2010 • 07:04 PM

Hello Sara and Troy, Been with you since Past the Wishing. Finally heard you 'live' in Canandaigua, NY last Sept. 11. was awesome. Question: How can I get permission to use I Saw What I Saw as background for slide show of shots my wife and I recently took in Zambia? We are volunteer correspondents for Global Partners, and use our photography to bring awareness to needs of people in Africa. I am also full time pastor for a small rural church in Upstate, NY. May God continue to bless you and your (growing!) family and work. In Christ, Gary VanRiper Pastor, Camden Wesleyan Church

Brett and Sophia (alias Underdog!!!) May 17, 2010 • 12:44 PM

Hi Sara, I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy your music!!! You are my favorite artist. :-) I have multiple sclerosis and uses a wheelchair, and I just wanted to tell you....Your music has inspired me possibly to begin writing a play. You can read some samples scenes on my website. It's a crazy website, but it is me!!! :-) brokenartgallery.com I became an artist, but I was a scientist before MS rearranged my life. I teach an art therapy class at Good Shepherd. Anyway, if you ever want to make a rock opera with your music, drop me an e-mail!!! ;-) I love Audrey Hepburn and there is no greater compliment that I can give to a woman than that she reminds me of Audrey, and you do. God bless. Keep up the good work!!! I love your song Rewrite this Tragedy... That's what I'm trying to do... Keep me in your prayers!!! Thank you Sara... I live in Allentown Pennsylvania.

Brett and Sophia (alias Underdog!!!) May 17, 2010 • 12:44 PM

Hi Sara, I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy your music!!! You are my favorite artist. :-) I have multiple sclerosis and uses a wheelchair, and I just wanted to tell you....Your music has inspired me possibly to begin writing a play. You can read some samples scenes on my website. It's a crazy website, but it is me!!! :-) brokenartgallery.com/ I became an artist, but I was a scientist before MS rearranged my life. I teach an art therapy class had Good Shepherd. Anyway, if you ever want to make a rock opera with your music, drop me an e-mail!!! ;-) I love Audrey Hepburn and there is no greater compliment that I can give to a woman than that she reminds me of Audrey, and you do. God bless. Keep up the good work!!! I love your song Rewrite this Tragedy... That's what I'm trying to do... Keep me in your prayers!!! Thank you Sara... I live in Allentown Pennsylvania.

Tom S. May 16, 2010 • 03:39 AM

(This was (2)) I recently noted both on the Concerts link and at Twitter (which I very rarely look at—just too busy) that you and Troy are going to be in Boston sometime in June for an event, “Christians & their impact on culture.” There are “Christian” buzzwords and catch phrases these days, such as “contextualization” and “engaging the culture,” of which I would wholeheartedly caution you and Troy to be very wary of—before this Boston thing. The Bible IS “relevant” —for any culture, any people, any time period. It doesn’t at all need our utterly superfluous, woeful, ill-advised HELP to MAKE it so. Yes indeed, the Gospel of Christ must be presented/preached with all love and compassion to the lost, hellbound masses, but with all due, BIBLICAL boldness, not in fretting about offending an ungodly society and so softening its marvelous poignancy and directness. I have done “street” and campus ministry/preaching for well over 20 years now, and while that alone doesn’t at all make what I say RIGHT, I am decisively and thoroughly convinced the Bible itself emphatically says as much—including how Paul dealt with the philosophical elite of his day on Mars Hill in Acts 17, most who ended up scoffing and walking away, unchanged, w/ only a small handful, apparently, having had ears to hear. Thus, sadly, shall it ever be in the world of sinful men and women (wondrous, infrequent outpourings of the Holy Spirit in TRUE revival the lone exception).

Tom Sadowski May 16, 2010 • 03:09 AM

(This exceeded the character limit for a single entry, so I’m splitting it into two, as the second posting here—or sometime tomorrow, if it won’t allow me to post two back-to-back—I believe to be most important of all.) In 2008 I “signed” your guestbook no less than FOUR times, Sara, but it’s been a year and a half since I last did so . . . so . . . Like most everyone else making entries here, I don’t know of course whether or not you ever actually get to read these (due to much travel and busyness in general, presumably), espec. the longer entries like mine, or if just your dad still reads, and he passes on the gist of them to you, or whatever. Nonetheless, here goes. Three main things on my mind to say to you: (1) To this day, I still virtually NEVER get tired of listening to pretty much all your CDs, mostly in the car while traveling or when doing the remodeling work I do these days (w/ my two sons and a son-in-law), w/ nail guns popping and saws buzzing and so forth. Sometimes I actually will stop and hit the iPod pause button for one of your songs when the air compressor kicks in; I cannot say that for very many other artists at all that I listen to! (Conversations and All Right Here are still my most overall favorites, gotta admit, w/ the others all not far behind.) (2) -- to follow -- (3) Much delighted to see you’re gonna be in concert here in TX again in July, and even closer to Denton (where I live) than the last two visits (in 2008). God’s providence is wonderful—had it been June instead, or later on this month, I’ll be out of town/state (MO/IL, NYC, and MI, in order, for work, street ministry, and a wedding, respectively). The Lord God willing, I will surely be back here in TX for it on July 25, along w/, no doubt, some, most, or maybe all of my family (my wife, six kids, two sons-in-law, and first grandchild, still on the way by then).

Christopher Long May 15, 2010 • 05:36 PM

I'm an author, music critic and entertainment personality on Florida's East Coast. I recently heard an amazing song on my car radio. I began jotting down the lyrics as I steered with my knees down the highway. Unfortunately the title and artist were not mentioned. I immediately began calling my "church" friends about it and soon the mystery was solved. The song was "The Word" by Sara Groves. (Amazon to the rescue!) I was unfamilar with Sara but I quickly ordered the "Conversations" CD. I received it in the mail today. Simply put, this is a brilliant record. The songs are edgy, fresh and heart-felt. The pure and honest lyrics and amazing melodies cut through my speakers and kissed my soul. God bless you and THANK YOU, Sara!

Doug & Sarah Fouser May 13, 2010 • 05:15 AM

Hey Sara, thank you so much for your ministry to us. My wife and I were just listening to one of your new songs and after it ended I was just singing one of the phrases that stuck in my mind, "Life with you is twice as hard and half as good" and then my wife said, "you bogger". Oops, we know that wasn't subconscious but it sure gave us a great laugh. Blessings to you and your husband in Jesus name, Doug

Janet Berry May 12, 2010 • 10:58 AM

This has been driving me up the wall and I'm having no success in finding your CD that has the song with these lines: "What if it's true? What if there's more? What if He's all your heart's been longing for?" (or something like that). Help! I MUST have this for my pagan son! Love your music. Signed, an older sister in Christ

jenny bright May 12, 2010 • 03:47 AM

I want to say thank you for expressing the longings, the searchings, hand-written on every woman's heart. The first time I heard your music was 2001, afew days before embarking on a mission trip driving to China from England. It took us three months, and your 'conversations' ripped onto a tape became my private anthem as I prayerfully rattled along in a landrover watching the hills and towns of europe, the middle east and asia past by. Now as a wife and mother,a singer/songwriter myself, I am inspired and stirred by the honesty and stripped-down love you lay down in your music. In those times of loneliness as a young mother, your songs have been an understanding friend vocalizing the cries of my heart to my Heavenly Father. I dare to pray my songs can inspire and capture women's hearts as yours have. I look forward to you coming to the UK. God Bless you and your family. Thank you

Waza May 12, 2010 • 01:51 AM

Guitar Chords. I Sara (or dad reading this), could you be so kind as to send us the guitar chords to "You are So Wonderful" to me ASAP? - I would like to learn to sing and play this song, it is wonderful :-)

Warren May 11, 2010 • 07:22 PM

Looking for "You Are Wonderful" sheet music? Also was looking for latest album on iTunes to download, but last album there is 2005? I am in Australia, you need to make these available on iTunes if you want us new generation to order them. Thanks

Jack Groves May 10, 2010 • 12:10 PM

Hi Aunt Sara!!!! I told you i would be here! I can't wait to do my school project on you.

Blake Ring May 06, 2010 • 11:57 AM

Sarah, I am a Pastor of Ninth and O Baptist Church in Louisville, KY. We started an Orphan Care Ministry in January and God has really moved the hearts of our congregation to care for the orphan. We made a video of church members's video footage from their adoptions and we put it to song...ur song. I'm sure that's breaking the law :) We showed it to our congregation and I put it on my personal blog. I posted it on January 24 at joyfullyjourneying.blogspot.com. Thank you for your concern for the orphan. You have been an inspiration to me, my wife and our church. Blessings, Blake Ring

Blayre May 04, 2010 • 10:50 AM

Dear Sara, I wish I had discovered your music long ago, but it has come at the perfect time. Having just been married seven months ago, your "Fireflies and Songs" album makes me laugh, cringe and cry... and I want to thank you for expressing so beautifully out loud what the rest of us can only hold in our hearts. We are eager to get to go through "Station Wagon" someday with you. Keep on keeping on. You are an inspiration to me. Blayre

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Carrie Kirk May 03, 2010 • 07:11 PM

Thank you, Sara and the band, for your continued encouragement in our Christian journey. Your honest and heartfelt lyrics speak my soul language. I don't know how it works out the way it does but your words in the songs you sing mirror exactly how I feel sometimes. I even use some of your lyrics in my Bible studies. Especially the words to some of your songs from Add to the Beauty. You were in Lakeland, Fl. at FBC at the Mall about 3 years ago. I was the girl who helped you out while you were vistiting our church. I enjoyed talking to you and Melody. You both were so down to earth it felt like I had made a new friend. I will keep praying for you and your family. God bless you as you show grace to so many people, just like Jesus did!! Love, Carrie

brenda May 02, 2010 • 05:33 PM

Where can I find the sheet music for Everyday Miracles?

Nicole S. May 01, 2010 • 09:14 AM

Sara, you write the songs my soul wants to sing. Ever since I heard you the first time ("You cannot lose my love" on the radio and I scrambled for a pen and tried not to drive off the road while blinking back tears) you prod me to be more truthful, more risky, more vulnerable, less confident in myself, and more trusting in God with each song you sing. Thanks for poking me in all the wrong (right!) places. =)

Melody Poli April 29, 2010 • 06:37 AM

Hi Sara, We came and saw the Troy and Sara show in Greensboro, NC and it was better than I could have ever imagined. My sister Cheri and Romelle started crying at the first song, me, I had to hold it together because when I go I go :) Seriously, the way you prefaced the first song was amazing. We hear you sister. Cheri and I were celebrating our birthdays together because your concert was right between them and you Greensboro is between our houses. It was perfect. I can not think of a better way of turning 40 than sitting next to my husband and sister, with teen daughters close at hand all singing together as we will in heaven. It was truly heavenly. My husband never listened before (mmhmmm all these 10 years I have been hearing you) He had walls up on women angsting over music r/t his past.(reminds me of looking for music in the music box, yeah I've done that) so anyway he hears you now. Yesterday he gets up and plays Add to the Beauty and says, yeah, I like her now. She doesn't try to act like a perfect Christian, she admits shes had marriage problems. You have been sharing these things all along but I guess it took meeting you. Seeing your humbleness, hearing your passion for the long defeat. I lost it(southern way of saying cried hard) when we sang that last worship song. I shared a major transition with all of you as I have had to put selfish things down in my life to turn more of my attention toward my daughter who was just diagnosed Friday with Autism, she also was born with Down Syndrome so it is a double wammy for here. (You were singing to us during her birth and during her heart surgery) You have always been an encouragement. My little boy also has a lot of developmental delay because of a microdeletion so they just need a lot from me and I think it is important to surround ourselves with friends and music that will support us in thinking and doing the right thing in marriage and childrearing. My sister has a little 5 year old with juvenile diabetes. You are such a light to our lives and our marriages Thank you for such a beautiful night ~Melody

harold kulik April 28, 2010 • 02:00 PM

Sara: My wife and I went to Rwanda in the summer of 2009 as part of a 5 country African visit to see the children that we sponsor. Your song I saw what I saw brings a tear to my eye remembering our journey in Rwanda. Thank you so much and may Jesus Christ continue to use you. harold kulik Strathmore Canada

Nicole April 28, 2010 • 01:07 AM

I just watched your "I saw what I saw" video and I had to write you. My husband and I are missionaries to Senegal West Africa. We transitioned 4 years ago from church ministry to working overseas. Thank you for putting my thoughts into words in such a wonderful and telling way. It is so true- when you see (and in our case live among) the pain- it changes you in a lot of ways. For me seeing mother's milk dry up and babies malnurished, being neighbors with 38 orphan boys who are lucky if they eat once a day, talking to a mom whose husband went to look for work and left her with 3 kids and no way to feed them,visiting rural villages where life is hard and often without much hope- these things and others cut me to the core. They have changed me, they have made me sad, sometimes they have made me mad, they have certainly made me cry, they have also made me appreciate my own 4 kids and their precious hearts, they have made me thankful, they have made me humble, they have made me courageous,they have made me tired, they have given me perspective- the list can go on and on- but I am realizing the most important thing they have changed is my view of love, my view of God. All the more, I am convinced to the core that Jesus is the only hope for me, for them. The message of the hope of Jesus is not just for eternity- it is a wholistic message which transforms lives, villages, outcomes here on earth. Thank you for renewing that passion inside me. God Bless you and your sweet family.

P April 27, 2010 • 08:24 PM

I have so enjoyed Sara's music from her very first album. Even then, with Past the Wishing, the honesty was so refreshing and I enjoyed being able to play some her music at a radio station I worked at. Tonight as I'm listening to Fireflies, tears are rolling down my face as she's singing songs speaking to some of the deep pain I'm struggling with. Keep singing Sara. Keep sharing the songs of life, as we remember it, as we live it, as we hope it will become.

Laurey April 27, 2010 • 08:19 AM

Oops. I think I have renamed your song in my mind "I saw what I saw". :-) I have it right now. It still is a blessing. Laurey.

Laurey April 27, 2010 • 08:00 AM

Hi, Sara. Your music is always a deep blessing and a poetic enjoyment. "I know what I know" has been one of the deepest reaching songs for me. To try to hold on to your belief in Jesus in a dysfunctional family and a world that denies Him has been a daily learning experience. I don't always get it right, but after 47yrs, I hope I have a heart and life focused on Christ. God bless you and keep writing and singing! Laurey.

Johanna Yates April 27, 2010 • 06:59 AM

WOW!!! A new Sara Groves CD...We're excited. My husband and I have all your CD's except Station Wagon (which I'm trying to locate locally)and your new CD "Fireflies". Thanks Sara for the music...it is beautiful and the lyrics teach us so much about life. Keep doing what you do for the Lord and may God bestow blessing after blessing upon you and your family...When will you be back in Texas. We live in Sachse, TX and would love for you to visit this area. Our church is Pure Heart Fellowship in Rowlett, TX.

Shelly Olson April 27, 2010 • 06:41 AM

Hey Sara's Dad, My friend Kathleen and I are attending the IJM fundraiser in Mpls on May 6th. Last year we completed our own IJM bikeathon, Miles for a Mission. My friend Kathleen, who headed the fundraiser, absolutely loves Sara and her life values. Her dream, although maybe corny, has been to meet Sara. Is there anyway Sara could just stop and say hello to Kathleen at the benefit?

Joseph Dindinger April 26, 2010 • 04:13 PM

I've been listening to Christian music for over 25 years and I just discovered you. Listening to your CDs, it quickly became obvious that you are one of the best Christian artists out there and yet I had never heard your stuff before... How is that possible? Well, look forward to sharing you with my friends. Thank you for being who God created you to be. Love in Christ, Joseph www.faith21.org

Merris April 26, 2010 • 03:22 AM

I took my daughter Sara for a "daddy date night" to see Sara Groves last night. The highlight of her night was getting her picture taken after the concert with Sara. She "froze" in the moment though and talked about how she "forget to her tell her that I play the piano too" for the next hour. :-) Thank you Sara Groves for your authenticity and vulnerability in your music.

heather eudy April 25, 2010 • 08:24 PM

I'm a freshman at High Point University this year, and my parents gave me three tickets to the concert in greensboro at friendly hills church for my birthday. I was so blessed as were my two friends. It was definitely the best birthday present I have ever received. I could sit and worship and listen to Sara talk and sing for hours. I love being able to see the Lord through her. She is my role model, and God has really blessed my life, using her. I'm so very thankful, and I love how the songs are truly from the heart and are so genuine, honest, and open. God is really working and loving through her.

Melinda April 24, 2010 • 09:28 AM

Hi Sara. I just recently hears your music here in Indiana on 98.7 and loved it. I have just started learning the Word of God due to struggling in my relationship with my ex husband. We have been together 18 yrs & have a beautiful 10 yr old son. All in all, my ex wants to work things out and I am struggling to Love him as I feel I should. I Love him for taking care of me for 18 yrs and he is the father of my son...that is the extent of my love. We are doing counseling with the Pastor at Church but I am nowhere near going back. Church is wonderful. I feel greta when I am there but when I walk out I feel all the burdens of life quickly bomb bard my shoulders. I am going to continue listening to your music as it is beautiful. The first song I heard was Its Me. Next one was From This One Place. Loved them.

Suzanne April 23, 2010 • 02:33 PM

Hi Sara, I recently submitted an essay to some publications (no bites yet). It's about how my talented and sensitive son died as a homeless person in Santa Barbara and how pushing through fear and dread and reaching out in love has helped me find hope. I quoted one of your songs at the end "Every heart has so much history . . . sit down a while and share your narrative with me; I'm not afraid of who you are." Thanks for the words. See you at Lakeside this summer!! The Chautauqua on Lake Erie!

Bethany April 23, 2010 • 12:58 PM

I am so grateful for your music. I was kind of a loner in high school, and that's when I started playing your songs; Less Like Scars, Jesus You're Beautiful, Maybe. Now, as a recent college graduate I continue to be inspired by your lyrics, and find so much joy in playing and singing your music. If you ever need someone to duet with you, let me know! :)

Debbie April 22, 2010 • 03:00 PM

Dear Sarah Our son has been deployed to Afghanistan for 7 1/2 months. Today he left base and started his journey home. During his time gone we have kept a private blog, today he celebrate his safe tour and return. On the blog I would like to post the words and an mp3 for "He's Always Been Faithful" giving you credit for the words. Thank you so much for the song - it helped me get thru many difficult days. Debbie

Jim Coonce April 22, 2010 • 07:51 AM

I just wanted to say how much your music has ministered to my wife and I over the years. Most recently, we saw you in concert last December in Springfield, IL. We were celebrating our 18th Wedding anniversary, which is always hectic and crazy during the Advent season. "Peace" is the word that describes our time with you as you shared your heart/music. We loved our time together and with you. Thank you for ministering to us. Jim and Stephanie Coonce, Jacksonville, IL

Lonnie Starks April 21, 2010 • 02:20 PM

Sara, I ask you to consider this: My daughter, Nora, died in a car wreck 2+ years ago. She was a senior, almost 18. "It Might Be Hope" helped me. Thank you. Would you consider writing a song? My idea is "The Time of Her Life", with a verse or 2 about her earth life; then how she is now "having the time of her life." I cannot get past the idea. You can get to know her on FB, "In loving Memory of Nora Starks". If you decide to pursue this, I can share more regarding her past & her part since she died. It is quite amazing. She was so special. Andrew Brown, PO BOX 12, Brasstown, NC 28902, was her youth leader, if you want to check. PLEASE MAKE CERTAIN SARA GROVES READS THIS. That's all I ask. Thank you. Lonnie Starks

Tonia April 21, 2010 • 11:10 AM

Listened to Fireflies and Songs this morning while in a childless car (doesn't happen that often!). I turned up the volume to let Twice As Good beat through my heart. You put the feelings I have for my girlfriends into words and then beautiful music. Thank you! I'm praying God will continue to bless you with music and touch you with His grace.

Tim Wilson April 21, 2010 • 04:48 AM

Re: AMJ at The Falls Church. Just want to pass on a word of encouragement. Aside from your part in the music and in re-orienting my thoughts about art, music and justice, I was impressed by your humility. A complete absence of prima donna "this is MY show", or of pretense. First, that you both encouraged Melody Olsen's writing and lead-singing, and were obviously happy to sing back-up FOR HER! Wow. Rare stuff. (For some reason, I can't see Madonna doing back-up for one of her back-ups!) Second, on Sunday morning, you were content to just be part of the worship team. Both spoke volumes about your nature and character. Thanks for the witness. (I'm a guitarist for the team but wasn't on schedule Sunday.)

Kelly April 20, 2010 • 04:57 PM

I made bacon for my kids this morning; my husband asked my three year old where bacon came from..he said "plastic"...well so much for my mom of the year award:) Anyways glad to read things are going well with you all and no cable, Bravo! Praying you Seek God First in All Things..Peace In Christ.

Deena Walls April 20, 2010 • 07:15 AM

Sara, It was such a blessing to meet you at the IJM confrence Friday. I was the one boo hooing and beyond thankful for your ministry of music in my darkest hours : )I learned the Mission of IJM is essential to freedom for so many not just the ones on the brothel floors, but it inspires people to help those who have addicted loved ones,those in the chains of abuse, people who are stiffled to speak, and the weary laborers in ministry. Where ever we find brokenness, defeat,sorrow, confusion there are people like you God sends to speak life back into our weary bones. Thank you for introducing me to IJM and I look forward to the next Chapter God has in my life's book. And to your Dad as he reads these messages bless you for your faithfulness and love for the mission of change, restoration and healing. Every part played is an essential piece to the body of Christ! Thank you for your part! Godspeed, Deena Walls groveoutreach.com

becky April 19, 2010 • 08:43 AM

Sara - Had the occasion to hear you for the first time this weekend at the Art-Music-Justice event at The Falls Church and you immediately shot to the top of my favorite artist list. And the primary reason is the piercing authenticity of your lyrics. My husband and I bought Fireflies and Songs and Tell Me What You Know. I found myself for the first time in ages sitting (with a magnifying glass!) reading your CD inserts of the lyrics as I listened. Thank you. In a world where truth is fleeting, it is so refreshing to hear honesty, however brutal. I sat in on your songwriting seminar as well. I am a Mom of teenagers, wife of almost 20 years and lawyer of 25 years, but also a writer in my deepest heart (of words not music). Thank you for your encouragement to pursue writing to point to God and truth with a more vocational spirit. So grateful to have been blessed by your presence at our church. May God Bless you and your family.

Nathalie April 19, 2010 • 06:45 AM

Sara, thank you for pouring your sweet humble heart into your songs and work. I had the privilege to hear you at the Falls Church this weekend. I was touched to the core. May God keep on blessing you.

Judy April 17, 2010 • 07:50 AM

Saw you last night at The Falls Church. It was an amazing concert. I've listened to your music for years and now I have a better understanding of what inspired some of my favorite songs. Thank you and God's blessing on you and your work.

Hilary April 17, 2010 • 04:52 AM

I discovered you on Jango, and got to the point where I was forwarding all the other songs just to listen to yours! So having been given some money, I took a risk and bought all your albums, and haven't regretted the decision at all. As many people have already said, the Lord has given you a gift which is blessing people all over the world. I find your music incredibly beautiful but also invaluable in encouraging my faith. God has really been using your music over the last few weeks to remind me of important things, and most importantly of him. As a high school teacher one of my favourites is 'You cannot lose my love' - it really reminds me of how much I love my kids. I have just been looking at your website today and was interested to read that you have unplugged the TV. I have in the last week decided to have a go at life without TV. Over the Easter break I gorged on DVDs, and was left disastisfied. In the last week I have been spending more time reading the Bible, and it is so much more satisfying - even if it doesn't seem so entertaining at the time. I will be very interested to follow how your experiment goes, as this is something close to my heart.

Marlene April 16, 2010 • 07:48 AM

Drivin' in to work today and had a bit of an emotinal breakdown. Was listening to your latest album and when I heard the words "How can tenderness be gone in the blink of an eye?" I immediately thought of my sister who is currently going through a divorce. The connection that you create, your deep and authentic understanding of human emotions and relationships is what has always drawn me to your music. God has truly blessed you with a gift. Thank you for sharing it.

Sarah Reed April 15, 2010 • 01:42 PM

Sara, your music--the authenticity/rawness of your lyrics--was a huge part of my conversion in college 5yrs ago to really seek the Lord. I would not be able to describe the impact and my thankfulness. I really just wanted an excuse to write you...I had a question about a line towards the end of your song "Awakening": 'And it's not just a sign or a sacrament...The blood is real." I've wondered what you meant by that? AND in one of my fav songs, "When the Saints," the lines about the "young girl huddled on the brothel floor"...was that written with a modern/specific girl in mind or from Hosea? Also, your line "I wish we could all go camping," has lead some friends and I to believe that you'd like to go camping with us, ha...maybe inbetween touring and Rwanda and such? We will all chip in for your babysitter(s). We all feel you'd be an irreplacable asset to our nightly/morningly campfire gathering/singing/guitaring. Thank you very much for your consideration :)

Phylla April 15, 2010 • 07:10 AM

Hi sara, I have always loved your songs. I'm quite glad with the honesty that you put into your songs. On the one hand, i'm also quite impressed with how you are able to tell so honestly and not really tell all at the same time. It's quite an art and a skill to be able to hide yourself between the lines and still have your listeners relate to you. I for one, can relate. Thanks for your music. I feel like I have a friend when I ponder upon your songs. God bless you!

Pat Kinkade April 15, 2010 • 05:47 AM

Sara your music is so meaningful. My sister is going through a tough time and she absolutely loves you. I want to surprise her by bringing her to one of your concerts. Is the June 1 panel discussion a concert or just a discussion?

Jeff Mammen April 14, 2010 • 05:38 PM

I know it's early, but I sure hope you can make it to the Mt Hermon Songwriters Conference again this year, especially after 'Fireflies'. Like you said, this is a 'songwriter's album' and I'd love to hear about the inspiration/perspiration behind these wonderful, poignant songs. How you can write from such a personal perspective that still resonates on such a universal level is part of your gifting. Thank you for sharing it with all of us.

Linda Harrity April 14, 2010 • 07:54 AM

Your music touches my heart--it is so "naked". I work with the youth from our church and the youth pastor gave me a compilation CD which included your song "Joy Is In Our Hearts". It is such a wonderful praise song; we will be singing it in Youth Group soon. Am also looking forward to your concert with Amy Grant this summer at Ocean Grove, NJ. God bless.

Pastor Aaron Reed April 14, 2010 • 07:07 AM

Sara - I heard you on K-Love radio spot today supporting teen challenge. I wonder if you ever do local, small venues for benefits. We have an event called River Run 2010 in Wheelersburg, OH, August 28, 2010 at 7:30 AM. We are holding this 7 mile walk/run to raise money for Freedom Hall Recovery Center - a Christ-centered drug and alcohol rehab ministry of New Beginnings, in Pike County, Oh. In southern Ohio we have one of the worst prescrition drug problems in the nation. We want to help. Maybe you could be a part of this? Please call me at 740-776-7411 (church) 740-352-5512 (cell) or I am on facebook too. God bless.

Patrick April 12, 2010 • 09:10 PM

I just wanted to let you know that tonight I was about to make a very bad decision (and in many ways had already begun to make it) and the chorus from "Generations" began playing in my head. The Spirit was merciful to me. Thank God for His grace, demonstrated in your song. Remind me of this with every decision...

jennifer whitmore April 11, 2010 • 10:11 AM

I am writing in response to your trip to Rawanda. The video was loaned to me by a friend. It brought up a lot of emotions. My family adopted a "war-orphan" from Liberia, her name is Rebeckah. We left our other 6 children and traveled there to bring her home. The adoption, which started out with so much hope and joy, was met with the opposition of her deattachement and physical anger. We have been thru more than 3 years, and sometimes we are overwhelmed with discouragement. We thought if we just loved her enough she would heal, but the truth is we see almost no progress, and now we have CPS and hearings going on. She attacked us on my daughters birthday and then 2 weeks later she called the police and CPS about it. Anything else that was going on is our lives was put on hold, and we started to fear, big time. We were in the grip of fear, no one believed us, because she can do so well in every other situation, school, church, everywhere but home. I couldn't imagine losing my children, because we had obeyed God and stepped out on faith for this adoption! We do not know what will happen, but the fear is going away, we are following Gods plan for our life. Some go on a mission for God, we brought ours home to live with us. I don't know what we are going to have to sacrifice for obeying this call, but I am more at peace, now that I rememeber that "the glory of God, is man fully alive." I am trying every day to not be the mom that "is hugging the wall". Sometimes I fail, but my ultimate goal is to bring glory to God with my life. If this gets to you, please pray for my family. We wanted to help heal the cycles of hate and violence that we saw in Liberia, and if our family is taken apart, I do not know what hope Rebeckah will have of a normal life. The enemy is trying to take her future, and our family with him. Please pray for us. Thank you for your music. Sometimes I just pray with the words, sometimes my feelings are too hard to pray.

Jessica Roberts April 10, 2010 • 04:32 PM

It was three years ago when I introduced your song "Jeremiah" to a girl who ended up becoming one of my very best friends. When I heard this song I was so inspired by it and I immediately thought of my friend Leah, because she too has a "fire in her bones" constantly to share God's Word with this lost and dying world. After listening to that song she began to search other songs by you and ended up falling in love with "It's Going to Be Alright." Throughout our blossoming and deepening friendship we used that song to console one another when in trials. She would just play it and cry sometimes, trusting the Lord that all would be right one day. Well that song has more meaning now than it ever had before because this very week out of nowhere my best friend at the age of 23 was diagnosed with Burkitt's Lymphoma- a very aggressive cancer. The prognosis looks good for her but it will be a very long and difficult uphill battle. So once again we've adopted our theme song "It's Going to Be Alright." As she slips into her hospital gown (which she abhors) and begins to prepare for the coming tests and chemo, I softly start to sing it to her and it always elicits a smile. Yesterday I had to adapt it to the guitar so I could play it for her in her room- I figured it'd be easier to learn it on guitar than to attempt to get a piano into the cancer ward. I'm so proud of my friend for how she is handling this trial. She has literally scared the hospital staff by how incredibly peaceful and joyful she's been throughout the whole ordeal. I will never forget how she got out of her bone marrow biopsy with this supernatural grin on her face and all she could say was, "The Lord was there...He was with me..." So thank you so much for this song Sara. You don't know just how much it means to Leah and myself. And I know you are so incredibly busy, but if you have any opportunity in the next few months to possibly give Leah a shout-out in any way, I know it would brighten up these dark days for her. For Christ's glory, Jessica

Jessica Roberts April 10, 2010 • 04:32 PM

David Mann April 10, 2010 • 03:03 PM

Hi, I tried to send you a message earlier, but it was denied "due to content". I guess it was the links I put in there to our website? Anyway, what I had written was to tell you that my wife and me were recently interviewed about our debut album "More Than Anything" at the local radio station, WAFT 101.1 FM, here in Valdosta, GA. I couldn't help but think about your music as such a positive influence on us and other up and coming musicians. And not only your music, but your testimony as well. It would be great if you would post some "sage words of wisdom" for new artists, to help us down the road you are already traveling. We went from musicians to music promoters overnight once the CD was ready, and it's a little overwhelming at times. Our website is stephanieanddavidmann (dot) com We're also on Facebook and there's a cool link to a recent newspaper article about us and our music and how the Lord cured me from major depression through music. Just like my namesake "David" in the bible, my pray was to have a heart after God's own heart, and from that prayer, I began to write songs like crazy from February of 2009 until now. We have written 46 songs to date, and are getting alot of radio airplay locally. Thanks for taking the time to read this, and for being such a positive influence on others. Sincerely, David and Stephanie Mann

Craig Capdepon April 10, 2010 • 08:31 AM

Thanks for the great songs. Through you God has strengthened many.

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Caitlin April 08, 2010 • 06:56 PM

Sara, You are truly a woman after God's own heart! Thanks for all your songs-I have 6 of your cds! I'm a dancer(I do ballet, but I'm only a freshman in High School)and I've used 3 of your songs for dances...they are amazing! I wish you could see them...It's Gonna Be All Right is currently my favorite song. I feel sooo much peace when I hear it and I've gone through a lot this year. Thank you for humbly obeying God's calling in your life; you're a true servant! Because you have, He is using you and your music to reach many ppl's hearts. Your lyrics have become a part of my life..they give me joy, hope, discipline, peace, and love always when I need it most! I love what God is doing in your life, and how He has used you in my own! trust Him always! In Christ, Caitlin --Phillippians 3:8-10

Julie April 07, 2010 • 09:02 PM

I have so appreciated your music, Sara, for so many reasons. I value the depth of it, how raw it is at times, and the vulnerability that comes through in your writing. It truly is a glimmer of hope and a gem uncovered in the music world. I was just signing on to itunes in Canada to "gift" one of your albums to a friend and I discovered that none of your albums are available through itunes Canada anymore! I feel lost! I'm wondering if there is any reason that you know of why that's no longer available? I see all of your albums listed on the U.S. itunes still, but unfortunately, Canadians aren't allowed to order from there! (bummer). I couldn't figure out any other way to contact you, so hopefully this will get through and perhaps you'll be able to post a reply here??? I shall hold out hope for Sara Groves on itunes Canada once again! (: My thanks for all you do...not just the music, but for living a life of meaning through your passions both big and small.

Sgt. Jeremy Nevil April 07, 2010 • 11:34 AM

Sara, I have a few of your songs. The station wagon cd..as well as the other side of something. I am currently in Afghansitan, away from my beautiful wife and my 2 precious boys. I really have to say that the songs that are on those albums really bring me home in a huge way. I remember one night listening to them on my zune. We had gotten into a firefight that day, and I was missing home. For the first time that night I heard "You can not loose my love". I cried. It reminded me of my boys, and I was pretty charged up after that. As a Christian, I know you wonder what impact your life and the things you do have on others, both good and bad. I want you to know Sara, that your music, brings this soldier home everytime. Its funny...a song like Roll to the middle makes me miss my wife...and the times that we had to do that. Thanks for the trips home, Jeremy

Sylvia Harrison April 06, 2010 • 09:53 AM

Dear Sara, I am sitting at my computer with your songs playing as I type. I can not think of one of your albums that I don't like. You speak in such honest terms about life. It is truly a blessing to have someone say what I sometimes don't have the words to express. I am glad to read that your father and father-in-law are reading this and encouraging you to keep going. You truly have a gift from God! Keep encouraging that girl of yours dads! :-) My current favorite album is Add to the Beauty. There have been many difficulties in my life the past five years and many of the songs resonate with me and encourage me to keep persevering. May the Lord Jesus keep blessing you as you parent, write, compose, sing and travel. May you know His very real presence in all you do! God bless you all, Sylvia

Safire April 06, 2010 • 12:17 AM

Sara When i was 10 my dad lent me a cd of yours for me to listen to. Now i have all (except ur newest), and they are my fave ever. at the moment i have been listening to "when the saints" and i am almost like "God, did u make her rite this just for me at this time in my life" I am in Australia and am 14. My grandma owns and runs a christian bookshop in town with a cafe too. Every time i go, there is sara groves or some other christian singer and i just love it. You inspire anc encoutage me without even knowing me. Thanks!

Matthew Gray April 05, 2010 • 10:39 PM

Hi Sara, Loving your music. In particular, I'd like to ask you about "Saints go marching in". I'm a Church history lecturer at a College in Adelaide, Australia. I was wondering if I might be able to play this song to my students, as it really encapsulates a lot of the things I'm trying to teach them. Feel free to email me about this. Maranatha, Matt.

Kerri April 05, 2010 • 06:10 PM

Sara - I was just listening to you radio broadcast on Focus on the Family. At one point you talked about your struggle in faith and your reflection on Job. I am in that place, and have been fearfully struggling through it. It was such a relief to hear you talk about it. Though rebellion is not a good thing, what I heard in your interview is that God did not give up on you and was at work in the midst of it. I have work to do, but God has not forsaken me. He is at work through you....Thank you for giving me hope and praise to God for working through us.

Markeya Timmons April 05, 2010 • 04:57 PM

Hello Ms. Sara Groves.. I am one of the teen employees at New City and I recently recorded another version of Eyes Wide Open to be featured in our Spring Production which you will be appearing in... I have yet to hear the final version but i heard that you approved the song and you even cried! I hope those were good tears and it was truly a pleasure to have experienced working with your music :)

Ruth A. cahill April 05, 2010 • 10:17 AM

Have you written any recent music. Do you have accompaniament CD's available. I heard you on Family Life Network. God bless You And Your Family.

Katharine Rothaar April 05, 2010 • 08:17 AM

Hi Sara! You have writtien the soundtrack of my life. Every time my heart is too overwhelmed to define its heaviness, your music washes in under the closed door and refreshes me. Your songs are my cold cup of water. From "Awakening" to "From This One Place", God has used you to encourage me to search his Word, think, feel and pray. You help me keep the door of my heart open to His softening works when it would be more comfortable to stay closed up. I recently lost my job due to an illness and had to move from Nashville to Maple Grove, MN with family. As we pulled out of TN and the tears washed down my face, I sang your song in my mind and heart over and over, "From this one place I can't see very far/From this one moment I am square in the dark/These are the things I will trust in my heart/You can see something else...I clung to those words. Thank you so much for the sacrifice you and your family make to minister to others. Your music gets many of us through our moments of pain and inspires us to press on to take hold of that which Christ Jesus took hold of for us. You are a treasure. I hope to see you in concert while I'm up here. May our God fill you with contentment and enable you to enjoy him forever. With much love and gratitude, katharine rothaar www.katharinerothaar.blogspot.com Blogging from the Basement: The trials and triumphs of becoming less

Gabriela Rivera April 02, 2010 • 06:32 PM

i just found your music about a month ago and i'm in love. your an amazing woman of God and i thank you for your great stuff. I'm sharing it with everyone i know and they all think the same way i do. :) keep up the good work i cant wait for your next CD.

Patty Hunter April 02, 2010 • 04:36 PM

Hello, Sara I love your voice... it is very calming and pleasant to hear and your songs are what I am very interested in. I have written a song along with Anthony Smith... I live in Fort Wayne, Indiana and Anthony Smith lives in Nashville, Tennessee. We were wondering if you would be interested in having a listen to our demo, called "God Speed, my Love"... demo was sung by Canadian artist, Patricia Conroy. Yours truly Patty Hunter

Megan Van Dam April 01, 2010 • 07:49 AM

Dear Sara, You probably don't remember me, but years ago I was a young girl in Indiana who wrote you a tremendously lengthy letter about my friend Sara--about our dear friendship which was intricately linked with your songs, and about the terrible divorce her parents were going through. We followed you to a concert in central Indiana where I sent backstage both the original letter and a new, shorter one. Then, you sent us both precious notes of encouragement and the CDs of yours that we were yet lacking. Well, now there is new sadness in my life. I'm married to a man that does not truly love Jesus or me, his wife. I am staying in my marriage because I believe that God can change his heart and I trust myself to Him who judges justly. Your songs "When It Was Over," "It's Gonna Be All Right," "Loving A Person," and more are really speaking to me where I am right now. I live in Birmingham, Alabama. Please come give a concert here. PLEASE! I keep checking your concert listings, but you are never performing nearby! And thank you for the encouragement that your music is to me in such a dark, lonely time. Writing from the Valley, Megan (Van Dam) Brobst

Donald March 31, 2010 • 07:38 PM

Hello, Sara! When it comes to pain and the forces pushing me to the ground, when it seems that the Lord has departed from me, I turn on the sound of my car and start listening to the songs and his voice sounds like the sweet call of Jesus saying "Hey Don, do not give up. " Cry to hear how the simplicity interacts with love through simple chords, an angelic voice and more - of how God's Spirit moves through her vocal chords. Love you! I love your family! Oro pr everyone. When I see the DVD of "Add to the Beaut" I suffer with a mixture of hope that better days will come. Jesus will return shortly ... God bless you all ...... Sorry for my english

Melanie Lee March 30, 2010 • 06:02 PM

My name is Melanie Lee and I am a sophomore at Manhattan Christian College. God has really touched me through your songs. Even in the midst of my pain I can remember how special I am to God. These last few months have been the hardest of my entire life. Last semester, on November 13, 2009, I had a hemorrhagic stroke (a brain bleed). I lost my ability to walk, my memory is very bad now and I shake constantly. After two months of intensive therapies I regained my ability to walk, after using a walker for a month and a cane for the second month. On top of that, the doctors informed me on November 30th that I have an inoperable brain tumor. It is not growing right now, but it is in the center of my brain and there is nothing they can do if it does start to grow. I have had to give all of these things up to God and he is making it all beautiful. I have truly had to learn to rely simply on faith to get me by, especially when I feel like I am at the end of my rope. I love comparing my problems to God's holiness and realizing how insignificant they are. But God is doing something beautiful and thank you for your ministry. We serve an incredible God! These words have been so encouraging. It is hard to be strong in the Lord somedays, but I know that God will do great things through me. He is my Alpha and my Omega. He is my savior and I will sing his name until the end of my days. Would you send me a signed picture of yourself or anything really. It would really mean a lot to me. My address is: Melanie Lee 1415 Anderson Ave. Manhattan, KS 66502 Your little Sister in Christ, Melanie Lee

Deborah March 30, 2010 • 09:25 AM

Sara, I've never done this before, but I have thought of finding a way to thank you too often to ignore it. This seems a little impersonal, but I didn't feel like trying to search out your address to write you the thank-you note that I would send if I had it... I want to thank you for your songs. They so often put what is in my heart into lyrics and melodies, and that is a gift priceless beyond measure. Thanks for your raw vulnerability; thanks for singing about the pain as well as the joy of walking with God. Gratefully, ~Deborah

Whitney March 29, 2010 • 11:25 AM

Just purchased your Fireflies and Songs album (beautiful, so well written) and read your write up about it on the website. You commented that you wanted it to be confessional, for you want to live and encourage people to live confessionally. Thank you for being brave and open enough to write how you do. I started songwriting over a year ago during a particularly heartbreaking and life re-routing season, only to completely fall in love with it. It was hearing other Christian songwriters like yourself write about sin and disappointment and confusion that gave me the courage to write about it to. Thank you for baring your soul and thoughts on life for your listeners. They are so, so appreciated and draw us closer to God's character. Thank you.

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Mary March 28, 2010 • 02:11 PM

Dear Sara, Your music is HEALING. Wow! Thank you for being God's instrument - partnering with Him to bring joy and hope to this broken world. I hope you can come back to Saint Augustine, Florida sometime soon! God bless you and your family, Mary

carolyn landman =) March 26, 2010 • 05:43 AM

i am SO encouraged by your music and the beautiful gift in voice -God has given you. i know you have lots of requests and great songs to pick from, but i am requesting that you sing, at the IJM Prayer Conference in April which i am attending again- 'I Saw What i Saw' and 'He's Always Been Faithful'. both make me Praise God and cry every time. May you be encouraged and uplifted today.

jeanine 'bean' longo March 24, 2010 • 12:41 PM

let me try this again (my two year old son just couldn't keep his little grubbers off the computer) You bring so much joy. I think you ROCK! How can we get you out here in the Island of Long (Long Island NY)?! If you are willing to make the trip (just a hop and jump from NJ) I will do the work to find the perfect venue. Best and Thank you! May God always keep you writing... Bean *If you ever need a rockin haircut while in these parts, let me know and I'll get you in with one of Beehive's bests! www.thebeehivesalon.com

Sam Billen March 24, 2010 • 08:42 AM

Sara, Thanks for your beautiful music. My mom died from breast cancer when I was 18 years old just over 10 years ago. I sometimes have trouble remembering the wonderful things she was to me, but somehow your music brings those memories right back to me every time. Especially the songs about your relationship with your husband - it's such a reminder of the beautiful Christian marriage that my parents had. Deeper than all of that though, I have struggled a LOT in my faith (even now) since she died and your music somehow reminds me of how real God's love is. Thank you for keeping your music real - it's so refreshing. I know you probably get fan mail like this all the time. I don't expect a response, but I do hope you get to read this and can put my name on the list of people that your music has moved and continues to move with every new song you produce. If you have a minute to spare, I just re-released a piano album that I recorded for my mom right after she died - it's up for free at my website: www.sambillen.com/doas/ Thanks again for the beautiful music, Sam Billen

Stasha March 18, 2010 • 09:01 PM

Sara, My youth pastor's wife introduced me to your songs after something very trumatic happened to me this summer! you're CD "All Right Here" got me though that trumatic time! and ever since then I have just loved your songs! They are very encourging to me and I can relate to every song in a differnet way! And really I don't have the words to tell you how they have helped me though life! You're song "Less Like Scars" mmm... wow! it has become my life victory cry! I just want to encourage you to keep writing songs and stay in tues with God! (PS- you sing really well too!)

Stef March 18, 2010 • 06:39 PM

Love Jesus, Why?, In the history of the world only he has told us the truth. One man, one begotten spirit of God

Stef March 18, 2010 • 06:35 PM

Think about one thing for me, please, how many creatures on earth have ever performed a burial for their parents, just name one? See I am right, just mankind, WE ARE NOT OF THIS WORLD I Love you my brothers and sisters, stay with Jesus he will show us the way home

Stef March 18, 2010 • 08:44 AM

DOES SCIENCE SUPPORT THE EXISTENCE OF GOD? I would say without a doubt it does. Every biological creature on this planet is in sync with its environment, if the environment changes the creature dies. Let’s look at our feet, Dogs have paws and pads, horses have hooves, fish have fins, what other creature do you know besides man that uses tools to walk on the earth, who else uses shoes. Man lives in opposition to the laws of nature not in sync at all, we wear shoes, drive cars, fly airplanes and split atoms and use the heat and pressure to start a fusion chain reaction to the tune of 50 mega tons of TNT. Does any of this sound like we are in sync with Mother Nature like the other creatures on this planet? I believe the evidence is clear, if you use your mind you will see we our out of sync with nature, man is not of this world. We are created in the image and likeness of God. And God made and controls nature. Just some, Basic Information Before you Leave Earth. (B.I.B.L.E.) Stef

Stef March 16, 2010 • 10:51 AM

I know many Christians do not understand why we are here, but the earth is a fruit tree and we are the fruit that God and the Angels will one day harvest. We who make it are destined to spread across the universe. God will only allow love to roam free in the universe. You see God is not in the Universe, God contains the Universe, which means we as mankind can understand all science, but not God because the Holy Father is outside of the Universe. I am a Nuclear scientist and we now know that gravity jumps to other galaxies is completely possible we already have the science, we just don't have the isotopes to run our advanced reactors. Apparently the isotopes are only contained in binary star systems which we are not one of. But ten years ago I had a dream about Archangel Michael and I learned a lot about who I am and God's plan for us. Jesus will return with legions of angels and rule this earth but Jesus will also bring science for our health and energy and the raw isotopes to power our gravity jump reactors for FTL or Faster Than Light space travel. I know there is no reason to believe me, but in my dream I was one of the angels with Archangel Michael and I am completely confused why I am living a human life with a wife and two small children, but I have so much to share, I leaned so much about God's plan for us. I even learned why Satan is destroying so many of us, because we are all God's children, good and evil, and there is no greater evil Satan can do to God then harm his children. This is what drives Satan his hate and pride. I love all, good and evil as the Holy Father shine his love on all and I know no one will believe me but please think about my words I have no other way of reaching you all. Stef

Kristin Robinson March 13, 2010 • 03:26 AM

Dear Sara, I got to attend your concert here in Rwanda last night. What a gift you gave us! I don't have the right words to describe but I'll try. Moments of worship and introspection are difficult to come by on the mission field...you gave us that. Moments of feeling carefree and social (like a date night :-) are seldom...you gave us that. And moments with someone who genuinely cares and isn't looking to receive something from us are few and far between. Thank you for taking the time with us and giving of yourself. You are awesome and a pleasure to listen to! Please keep sharing your gift of song. Grace and Peace, Kristin

Twila F March 11, 2010 • 04:16 PM

I am happy to have found this sight and this guestbook board. My first memories of Sara's music were on WLJN, Traverse City, MI with Remember Surrender, and Generations. That was when I was just beginning to develop my ear for music and deciding what I liked and choosing Sara Groves was easy. Since then her sounds and insights have steadily gotten closer to my own heart's cry. There have been times in the last couple of transition-years that Sara's music has been able to define me better than I could at the time. Her lyrics have taught me to look to God more than anything. Sara has become sort of a big sister to me with the gift God has given her to understand the human heart and its need for the All-Sufficient God. Sara, thank you for following God and loosing yourself in His service. You are far and away my favorite Christian recording artist. It is wonderful to be able to express myself to friends with the things you have written out of your own heart.

Sharon Bergkoetter March 10, 2010 • 10:47 PM

Sara, Thank you for writing Less Like Scars. It has become an anthem to me. Following the death of my 23 year old son to suicide 18 months ago I have had to pour out my heart and life to Jesus. This song reminds me that as I continually lay my life before him the scars will turn into a part of who I am but will not hold me back and I can live for His glory and allow Him to continue to shape me into the vessel that He wants me to be. thank you for using your gift to the glory of God. God bless you and your family. Sharon

Michael Olmsted March 10, 2010 • 03:12 PM

Sara, you need to come to Missoula, Montana and perform. Missoula is a very Liberal colleged town but there is a large population of believers out here. Thanks, Michael Olmsted

Kat March 08, 2010 • 05:45 PM

Several years ago a woman I knew was driving her two beautiful children to the store. She had spoken to her husband earlier about going. On her way a young man who had a need for speed ran head on into her car killing her, her daughter, and forever changing her son’s life. He remains in a wheelchair and has brain damage. I’ve seen you in person twice and have several CDs. This wonderful lady was a shining example of what a Christian woman should be. He little girl was my daughter’s age and had played in the school while we waited for our boys to meet us. My daughter would have stared school with her daughter. We were both excited about that. I began to listen to Going Home. Odd how God works. I was sitting in my car asking God why and I suddenly hear this song for what felt like the first time. Her husband has remarried and is very happy. He joined the ministry. Her son remains in the wheelchair and has many issues but I know that God is with him. Thank you for that song

Cindy Roberts March 05, 2010 • 02:03 PM

Your song, "It Me" and the the video are such a huge blessing. The phrase "I take ofense" is a loud reminder that this agument is not something that is being done to me. I took ofense, I chose to be offended. I can choose not to be offended. Years ago when I was trying to respect my husband when i did not "feel" respect for him I think I felt God say to me "Treat him as well as you would your boss when you disagree with him" It sounded similar to what you said about being as respectful as you would to a stranger. Anyway the video has added much speed in making sense out of those senseless moments. Thank for being a Jesus lover and allowing him to work through you. Cindy Roberts

Tim Schaertel March 05, 2010 • 09:05 AM

Hi Sarah, I was only recently introduced to your music. Before I got saved I loved artists like Sarah McLachlan and Tori Amos. However lyrically I lost interest in them. I am not saying you sound like them, but certainly fall into that genre. I was introduced to you by my neice. She is getting married in September and asked me to sing your song "Add To The Beauty" during the wedding ceremony. I love the song. However I have not een able to find the piano or guitar chords for this song. I know you have a book with all of your music in it. I was just wondering if there was some way I could purchase a copy of the music to just this song. Thank you for your time and God Bless you Tim Schaertel

Brenda A. Coone March 05, 2010 • 07:34 AM

I sit here struggling for words to share my heart. Even if you are not able to read these words I know you will feel the love that flows back to you from the angels and all of us that you touch and inspire. You are truly a blessing from God. Your music and your actions remind us of his presence. Thank You, I am wrapping you in a warm comfy patchwork quilt. Each patch created by the signature of one of the many souls and hearts you touch.

Gloria Cooper March 04, 2010 • 09:27 AM

Hi Sara, I pray that this message gets to you in a timely manner and that we can connect through communications that I have left in this message. May God richly bless you sister as you serve Him and His children in Africa. I am an ambassador to Africa, an educator of young children in the USA and Africa and called the mother of Nations my name is Gloria Cooper founder and president of Heart 2 Heart Hand N Hand International Foundation in Oregon. You may visit our web-site at www.heart2hearthandnhandintl.org or call our office at (541) 479-4626 so we can speak to one another in serving orphans in Africa and the globe. My dear friend and ministry partner Pastor Nelson Lufafa is in the USA now in Maplewood, Minnesota. I noticed you are in Burnsville Minnesota and was in prayer the two of you could meet face to face as he teaches on HIV/AIDS in the villages of Uganda and Kenya presently and desires to take his knowledge out into all of Africa and the world. Pastor Nelson also is a pastor of a local church in Jinja, Uganda 2 hours drive from Kampala and is the director of (STAO) Save The Aids Orphans with over 71 orphans presently. His contact is: P.O. BOX 25 JINJA TEL +256782507785 www.stao-uganda.org www.stao.no Uganda His number presently in the USA is (651) 769-4937 Pastor nelson is only here until March 16th and then needs to go back to Uganda to care for the children and his own family and the church of over 250. He is raising monies in the USA now for a clean water project in his village of Jinja where he has land purchased already, we need assistance getting this message out as the collections have been small but gracious from His people. We love your heart especially for children in Africa and your music you share with the world. with Love In His grace & Mercy, Gloria L. Cooper <")))><

Ammie Sullivent March 04, 2010 • 09:11 AM

Sara, I currently attend college with a man from Rwanda. When he completes his degree in Ministry and Leadership at Oklahoma Wesleyan University he plans to return to Rwanda to minister. He is looking for partners in this adventure. His name is Jean-Bosco Hajabakiga. If you have any information on a good group to partner with in Rwanda, please let me know. Thanks and may God be with you on your journey. Ammie Sullivent dnasulli1@cox.net

Jonah Lippert March 04, 2010 • 05:38 AM

Hello Sara! I just wanted to say thank you for thanking God with your talents, and glorifying Him through your songs! I heard "You are the Sun" several years ago, I think, and I sing it, or variations when I remember God is my superabundant source of joy. Thank you for reflecting his light, and for striving to let him make you into a saint! Please know of my prayers for you & your family! In Christ through Mary, Jonah P.S. Have you ever heard of The Theology of the Body? It's kind of hard to write a song about the whole thing, because it's God's expression of love as he created our human bodies, but the Christian message behind it is one that I think is really life-changing. If you haven't, I bet you'd love learning about it! :D Just a note

Juliana Francy March 04, 2010 • 05:05 AM

Olá Sara Meu nome é Juliana e sou do Brasil(Rio de Janeiro),a pouco que te conheci e ja me amarro em suas músicas.Se o site pudesse traduzir para português seria mais fácil compreende-lo. Bjus

Charles March 03, 2010 • 11:11 PM

Sara: I purchased your double cd/dvd "Add to the Beauty". I do not know which one touched me the most. Your music and mission have touched me deeply. I was delighted to see your husband with you, and to find out that he is very much part of your ministry. You are truely being the model of the Christian unity. I can only thank our Lord that you and your husband answered the call. Again, Thank You (both). May God richly bless you in this age, and in the age to come.

Phil March 03, 2010 • 09:18 AM

Sara, I'm not even a Christian (although I practice my own form of spirituality), but I can say that your music is amazing. I'm a musician too, and used to write a ton of songs, until I lost my voice (so now I do a lot of fingerpicking). Back in the 70's (I'm 62) I was part of a New Age musich group in Sedona, AZ, and wrote a lot of spiritual songs. Your songs remind me very much of my own back then. You're an absolutely great songwriter, and I listen to your station on Pandora, again not because I'm a Chrisitan, but because the music is so good. One of my favorites of yours is "When It Was Over" - great melody and lyrics. Keep it up!

Di Kistler March 02, 2010 • 09:17 AM

Hi Sara (and/or Sara's Dad!:) I looked around for an email address and considered leaving this on your Facebook fan page but didn't want to risk seemingly misusing that space, so hoping this is a bit more private way to reach you. I love you and your music, and have several of your cds including "Add to the Beauty" which we included as bumper music as well as suggested it to women who attended a Captivating retreat held last August in Minnesota (modeled after Ransomed Heart's events). I'm writing to you today to ask if there is any possibility you could add "Kingdom Comes" to playlist.com - so that I could link to it on our RUBIO Encounter blog. You can see what our ministry is about at www.rubioencounter.blogspot.com. For our women's event, RUBIO stood for Restoring Ultimate Beauty Inside Out; next, for our relationship encounter, it stands for Restoring Unity Building Intimacy & Oneness. Your song speaks beautifully of seeking first His Kingdom, and building it in our hearts as we're pouring it out in relationship with others. Was thinking you may be adding some new tracks from Fireflies & Songs to playlist.com, and hoping you could add Kingdom Comes, too! Thank you and God bless you, your family, your band, and all those whose lives will be impacted as you minister in Rwanda this month.

Jalyn March 02, 2010 • 07:37 AM

I am looking for the instrumental to the song "Love" on your new CD, Fireflies and Songs" to play at my wedding...........can you help me find this?? Thanks so much!

tina February 28, 2010 • 07:30 PM

Sara, I wanted you to know that your lyrics have reached me in just about every stage of my life since I saw you in the late 90s while attending college in Springfield, MO. I sang "fly" to my husband on our wedding day, I sing "you cannot lose my love to my newborn babies" etc. I am the author behind www.detailgalblog.com. On Feb 27, 2010 my post inspired by "what i thought i wanted" has already reached people that previously shunned the Truth. i thought you might be interested in reading. i have to thank you for your songwriting. i'm actually considering making a regular series out of "how sara said it best" on detailgalblog.com Tina

Therese Pisarcik February 28, 2010 • 07:25 PM

Dear Sara, Troy, Melody, & Aaron ~~ Thank you so very much for your concert in Gilbert, Arizona last evening. I especially enjoyed you inviting the audience to sing along with "Joy Is In Our Hearts". Congratulations to Melody for her first C.D.! You were wonderful for "all these things". Due to the weather, I had to leave before the 2nd session, but listened to the "fireflies and songs" C.D. today before church. Fabulous!! Now I have all of your music! Also got Melody's C.D. & look forward to hearing it tomorrow. Glad we could contribute to Food For The Hungry as well. In Gratitude for You always, Therese from Phoenix, Arizona

Kimberly Miles February 27, 2010 • 07:36 PM

I just cannot tell you how much our whole family (Jim-Christian high sch History/Religion teacher/Dad;Daughter Jana,age 20/college student;Daughter Sara,age 15, student 9th grade;and myself,an RN/Mom) all enjoy your music! We've only been able to see you perform once but hope to again. God bless your ministry & family. You have no idea how many times, and esp now as we go thru a very stressful time in our life, your music lifts our hearts and turns our souls back to the Light-back to the right perspective. Thank you for letting God use you.Please don't stop. You have touched our family for good. Today I played 'It Might Be Hope' like 10 times! We may never meet (til Heaven-yeah?)but you will always be part of our family. Sincerely, Kimberly Miles

Bill Artzt February 26, 2010 • 06:29 AM

Sara, Even before I wrote a word, the tears began to come. I want to thank you for opening your heart, your life and your walk with God to us in your music. I cannot tell you how many times I have cried listening to your songs as the Lord touched my heart. I am deeply grateful that you and I by God's grace are "not our gift" but we get to use our gifts and see God work. Recently God ministered to me in a low place thru your interview for The Other Side of Something record. Your comments on the Boxer reminded me that I needed to not lay down under the assault of the Enemy's blows but to fight on in the persevering grace and love of Jesus. He will finish what He has begun. May God continue to meet you as offer your life and gift to Him. To Him be the glory alone, Bill

Lindy Combs February 26, 2010 • 06:23 AM

I was at your debut concert at BAG. I was not a member there, but my son, Dunamis, was. I am listening to "Pass the Wishing" the last piece on there on repeat. It speaks to me, after my years of chains, so hard to walk in freedom. Sometimes I sing with you to exercise my own vocals. I finally produced my own CD. Digitally it is on Amazon. You were such an inspiration at new release concert. I remember when you could not contain your experience, crying, you had to stop in the middle of the last song with, "Thank you, God!" I have vivid memories of that time. You were adorable. I love you. I live in WA state now. Hope to be at one of your concerts in the future. My daughter, Paula Schuler, lives in San Antonio. Perhaps you recall that you were once on her list of mentors. I will inform her of your Kerville concert date. She has laid aside her music for now. Such a bummer for me.

brooke smith February 24, 2010 • 08:01 PM

Dear Sara, I never really thought about saying something to you like this until after church tonight our guest minister of music suggested it to me... but I love your song "tent in the center of town"!!! I want to sing it in church so bad! I have called several music stores and they have told me that there is not an accomaniment cd for it. Just now I saw on your website that you have a songbook with the piano notes, but I was wondering if there was any way I could just buy that one song's sheet music instead of the whole book...??? If you (or someone you work with) could let me know I would really appreciate it!!! Thanks so much! :)

Shannon Murphy February 24, 2010 • 09:34 AM

Peace and blessing to you Sara! Your music and message and heart have been an important part of my life and I thank you so much. I am writing to beg you to do (or have someone do)an arrangement of You Cannot Lose My Love for handbell choir! I know I know, strange request. Many of your tunes would be so lovely in handbell format, and this one especially I can already HEAR in my head! Anyway, thank you again for all that your music has given to me. Many tears, many laughs, many MANY MANY singalongs! Love and joy to you and your family.

Ella Mae Hedgepeth February 24, 2010 • 08:48 AM

Sara, Just was so inspired by "When the Saints" on the 40 Days for Life Charlotte,NC web site. I am with 40 Days for Life, Goshen, NY. I see you'll be in Wychoff, NJ in April near the home of my youth. Ella Mae Hedgepeth.

Gustavo Nieva February 22, 2010 • 11:28 PM

I give thanks to Internet and to God specially by it to have known you and to especially be able to hear his wonderful music that write and you sing. god bless you so much. When do you visit Argentina?

Jessica Holvik February 21, 2010 • 03:07 PM

I have been preparing to speak to my church about the problem of pain. How can a loving God allow the pain we see in this world? I believe that when Jesus told us to pray for God's Kingdom to come, He was talking about here and now, and He wants us to do the bringing. After all, we are the salt and the light of the earth, and the body of Christ. I also believe that God has made the North American church rich in wealth so we can care for the poor and needy. Unfortunately, I think we have fallen short. However, I don't think it is normally for lack of caring - I think we just don't KNOW the people. We haven't seen them face to face, or heard of their pain from their own lips. I think your video for "I saw what I saw" from Rwanda really models how our hearts will break for the poor and our lives will be changed once they become real people to us. I would love to show the video during my message, but I am not able to find a good quality version to buy. Is there one available?

Rob February 21, 2010 • 02:13 PM

Sara and Family, Thank you so much for the depth, breadth, and integrity of your music. January 2009 as I was exploring call to ministry, your music has helped encourage and support my wife and I while being real. Your influence and living a life with family in mission is truly inspirational. Our life now is a canvas from Painting Pictures of Egypt and may not be milk and honey, but the relationship we have with our Lord and Savior provides everything we need. God Bless as you continue your ministry in music and mission and providing an excellent role model for all of our families responding to God's calling.

Ginny February 18, 2010 • 06:02 PM

Which of the Madeleine L'Engle books or series of books is your favorite? We are studying "40-Day Journey" at our church during Lent and I find myself wanting to read more of her works but there are so many that I don't know where to start. Thanks for any suggestions you can give. I respect you so much and would value your opinion.

Stefanie Wheeler February 18, 2010 • 07:02 AM

Dear Sara, God bless you over and over! I am so very glad that you have followed God's calling on your life... with your music and with your family! This past Christmas you came to Manchester Christian Church in Manchester, NH, my home church... Can I just say AMAZING! The brightest part of my Christmas! You are an inspiration for many reasons. It is clear that your love for Jesus is always growing through your music and the love of your family! I am also a singer/song writer/ guitarist and it was so good for me to see you with a thriving family! I'm hoping to start my family soon and I guess I could say that you've become quite a role model for me! I love it. You are a constant encouragement to me. And your song for your girlfriends was the best! I heard it for the 1st time gratefully sitting next to my "forever friend" and I cried! So lovely. It has often come back to me... oh how we need those all loving, not condemning friends. = > Thank you. Thank you. Your relationship with God has brought ME to a deeper relationship with our Father! (and I'm sure sooooo many others too!) smiles and hugs! Ever grateful, Stefanie

Howard Hawkins February 16, 2010 • 05:40 PM

Sara, I really like your music and the style. Your music ministers as well as brings healing to the soul. God bless!

Charles February 15, 2010 • 09:16 PM

Sara; Thank you for answering the call; thank you for sharing your talents with us;thank you for sharing your spirit; thank you for sharing your soul; thank you for sharing your life; thank you; I pray that God will bless you openly in this age, as well as in the age to come.

Whitney February 14, 2010 • 05:29 AM

I don't know why, because I don't deserve it, but God has blessed me with the most loyal and steadfast husband of anyone I know. I couldn't find a Valentine to say what was in my heart -- so I made my own, and used the lyrics from your song "Fly." Thanks for helping me to tell a kind and gentle man what a gift he has been for almost 19 years of marriage.

p mark robb February 10, 2010 • 09:43 AM

sara ... i am so glad i preordered your latest album and you took the time to share the stories behind the songs. it connected me to the lyrics in a way that wouldn't have been possible otherwise. i am in for all others that you do like that in the future! the "Twice As Good" song moved me the most. and as a result, i have started a project to share my heart with my "four good friends" in a deep and meaningful way. in putting my project together, i wondered if you might know the rwandan translation for "four good friends"? i have a graphic i am working on, and want to incorporate the words into it. thank you so much for the blessing that your music is to both my wife and i. God bless.

Brock Sund February 10, 2010 • 08:22 AM

Sara and crew, My wife first introduced me to your music several years ago and since then i dont think that we listen to much else in our home. Thanks for the encouraging words and beautiful tunes. We would love to see you in the Memphis area. Keep it up. Brock and Olivia Sund

Melody Poli February 09, 2010 • 08:33 AM

Hi Sara! My sister, her dtr, her friend, our husbands, and I are so very very very excited you are coming to Greensboro, NC and you will find us singing our silly hearts out with you on that day. We have loved you since Past the Wishing and know every last one of your creations. My sister and I feel you have been singing our hearts all along the way. After hearing these last 2 albums we are very curious if you are homeschooling your children with Charlotte Mason's philosophy as we hear so many pieces of what we do in your music, but its so much bigger than that isn't it. Add to the Beauty is our homeschool theme song :) Thank you for it. We love you. ~Melody, Cheri, Kaley, & Rumelle

debbie brendley February 08, 2010 • 06:28 PM

just wanted to tell you that you are, indeed, a lifetimer...and i know i am one of many who can say, if you write it and sing it...we will listen! i listen to your music a lot and the other day my little girl said to me, "mommy, are you and sara friends?". kinda funny...but i guess that i feel like we are. just found out this weekend that you guys are coming back to friendly hills in greensboro, nc (my church)...and i'd be happy to help out with the cd table...like last time. can't wait 'til april. God bless...

Sarah February 08, 2010 • 04:25 PM

Hi Sara, I just wanted to say that your music is very inspirational, and very touching. I recently listened to "Awakening" and it is great to have a reminder. It touched my heart. You have a gift from God, thank you for sharing that with everyone! Blessings, Sarah

kelly klatt February 07, 2010 • 09:09 PM

Hi Sara, I love the song "pieces of you" from the StationWagon Album. I would love to use it on my website (photographybykellyklatt.com) I am a portrait photographer out in Buffalo, MN. I don't know if you check the guestbook often, but I wasn't sure how else to contact you. Thanks so much, Kelly

Jenny February 05, 2010 • 06:16 PM

On the comical side, just wanted to share that my 3 year old asks me to play "Christopher wants a burger" (Christopher Francis Wendelberger) every time we get in the car.

Hannah Love February 05, 2010 • 04:43 PM

Sara, I just want to let you know that your songs are often my prayers when I don't know how to express my thoughts and feelings to the Lord. I've been listening to your music since my dad gave me your Conversations album when I was 12. Nine years later, I continually turn to your music to speak biblical, peace-giving truth to my heart. I can truthfully say that your music has played a significant part in shaping how I view and worship our Father. your sister, Hannah

Anita Armagnac February 05, 2010 • 02:19 PM

Sara: I first heard you on TV a few weeks ago and I haven't found the song you were singing anywhere. You were talking about someone that was dying, I believe, and you sang a song that had some words from "amazing grace" but the music was different. I loved your voice and that song. WHAT ALBUM IS IT ON? I WANT THAT SONG!! (SMILE) Ever since then I've been searching to no avail. God bless you, Sarah, continually.

Monica February 05, 2010 • 01:06 PM

I had the wonderful opportunity to hear you at the IJM conference last year in Virginia....Your song "I saw what I saw" is so deep and truthful. For any of us who have walked among the hurting, the broken, and the oppressed know that we are forever changed. Still imperfect in our humanity, but there is always something deep inside us that cries out to our Savior on behalf of those people for hope, salvation, peace and rest.....crying out to a God who is mighty to save....

Sarah R. February 04, 2010 • 12:41 PM

Your music is such an encouragement to me. I love that your songs deal with the hard issues that people have to deal with. Your my absolute favorite musical artist! Thank you so much!!!!

Melinda February 02, 2010 • 10:44 PM

Sara, I could listen to you sing all day. The songs you sing and write come from your very soul of the place where God lives. Your songs reveal this. Of all your songs, Awakenings" has to be my favorite...sometimes you just need to hear the simple voice of God confirming His great love for us. Thanks for you songs. Wish you had these on accompaniment tracks, Maybe you will do that. I am not half the singer you are, but I love to sing at church and would love to share your beautiful songs. God bless you my sister. In His Love, Melinda

Linda February 02, 2010 • 10:13 PM

I just heard your song "Loving a Person" on a random wedding website, and searched the net until I found out it was sung by you...what a great song. Can't wait to find your other works...thank you for sharing your talents!

Leigh Kirkpatrick February 02, 2010 • 12:38 PM

i can hear God through you...thank you....there aer times where you allow me to breathe...and i am at peace

Jackie February 02, 2010 • 09:17 AM

Dear Sara, Thank you for being obedient to God with your life, family, music and all that you have. I've been working in missions in Africa for a couple of years now mostly in missions training. The last year has been a tough one for many reason. In the last few months, God has used your music to heal, and help, encourage and teach me. Thank you for that. I also watched the Nomad Video and that has really inspired me as a woman to truly live the abundant life of God for myself but also for the sake of others. Songs like, "Just showed Up for my Own Life", "When the Saints", "Loving a Person" and "love is Still a Worthy Cause" have truly blown me away and reminded me of some lessons that I was possibly in danger of forgetting. Thank you for serving Him. The Glory of God is truly, Man fully alive. J

Adam and Amber Stutzman February 01, 2010 • 11:15 PM

Our names are Adam and Amber Stutzman and we live in Silverton, Oregon. We really love your music! Our family has been in the process of adopting a baby girl from Ethiopia for the past year and are getting very close. We are going through the agency All God's Children International out of Portland. It has been a long, hard and expensive road requiring a lot of patience. We are officially number 23 on the waitlist to receive our child, and have over the past year, done many fundraisers in order to raise the needed $25,000 to adopt her. After all the hard work, we will finally be traveling to pick her up sometime early this summer. We are going to be ending our fundraisings with a Silent Auction and Dessert Night at our church, Emmanuel Bible in Pratum, on April 22nd. We are trying to find auction items and were wondering if you would consider donating one of your Cd's, t-shirts, or any of your other products at all for the auction... ..If you can't we totally understand- but thank you for considering us-and take care! Please feel free to visit our adoption blog page, where we try to keep everyone posted on all the events which we have been going through, and what our latest waitlist number is. The blog page can be found at………..adamandamberstutzman.blogspot.com Thank you again and God Bless, Adam & Amber Stutzman 404 Charles Ave. Silverton OR 97381 awitha@verizon.net 503-881-4633 Jacob 11, Cassidy&Zachary 8, Noah 6, Logan 4 & Baby “Abigail” from Ethiopia coming SOON!!!

Mark February 01, 2010 • 08:43 PM

Hi Sara--I just wanted you to know what a heart felt blessing your video "I saw what I saw" has been to me. I was fortunate to spend a few weeks in Rwanda the spring of 2001. I have never experienced the presence of God as I did when in church there. Even as the years go by, I daily remember the love God has for these people (and all of us) and want you to know that your music touches the hearts of many. I have used your video when I have spoken of my trip to others, and it is amazing when you can watch others as they are being touched through your work. The Lord bless you and keep you. Stay strong.

Anonymous February 01, 2010 • 02:12 PM

Thank the Lord for your encouraging words and music. I recently had a miscarriage and "From this one Place" is such an encouraging song. I thank you so much for your ministry. May God bless you in your honesty through your music.

Heather January 31, 2010 • 03:22 PM

Love your voice!

Kara January 31, 2010 • 06:19 AM

I'm interested in purchasing the songbook, but had a question first that I was hoping someone could answer. Is the piano part written like it is played on the CD's? In other words, could I play the piano part and sing along as it sounds on the CD's...I know some piano/voice books are written where the piano part is altered to include the vocal line in the right hand. I would love to find this out before I potentially spend the $ on the book. Thanks!

Diana January 30, 2010 • 11:27 AM

I would love to be able to sing "Hiding Place" in my church. You sang it as part of Beth Moore's Songs of Deliverance collection. Is it available anywhere as a track or sheet music? Thanks so much!

Robin January 30, 2010 • 10:25 AM

Sara, Thank you so much for your album "Add to the Beauty." I cannot express how much it has meant to me and my husband as we heal from his affair. "When it was over, Rewrite this Tragedy, Loving a Person, It's Going to be Alright, Just Showed Up, and Something Changed" have all been instrumental in helping us move forward and grow stronger. In what has been the darkest chapter of my life, your album has been a ray of light. I thank you for your ministry and pray for you and your family. God Bless, Robin

Christa January 29, 2010 • 03:30 PM

Hi Sara and crew, I have been SO blessed by your music over the last 8 years. This newest CD has blessed me in so many ways already. I find especial comfort in your music, and believe God particualry uses it to speak to me in different seasons' fears and joys and...well just about every emotion. Thanks and God Bless you immensely!

Kathleen Ely January 27, 2010 • 08:14 PM

Sara, Did you record a song titled "Love is a Story"? Or does one of your songs have that phrase sung in it? I heard it on a radio station back in April 2009 and I was pretty sure it was you singing it, but I can't seem to find it on your list of songs. Thanks, Kathleen Ely

Lori Martens January 27, 2010 • 06:51 PM

Hey Sara, I too have been following your music now since "Conversations", waiting for each new release with anticipation. My tradition is to brew a cup of tea, pull out the lyric sheet, lie down on the couch and read through and listen to each song first time through. It is always like catching up with a treasured friend who lives far away. Your perspectives and vulnerabilities have carried me through struggles and they have for friends as well. A few years ago, as a girlfriend lay in her hospital bed recuperating from an attempted suicide, a mutual friend brought her "Add to the Beauty" and the song "Just Showed Up for My Own Life" resonated like a fire in her life. Today she is happy and healthy and moving forward, thanks be to God. I routinely check your concert schedule to see if you come anywhere near Canada. I live on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. If you come within 8 hours of me I will drive to see you play and perhaps give you a hug. If not, then reserve some time for a cup of coffee with me in heaven and we can praise Him together. Blessings to you, and hi Sara's dad.

Missy January 27, 2010 • 05:24 PM

Sara! I just checked out your tour dates, and just about DIED when I saw that you and my lifelong ispiration Amy Grant are singing together in New Jersey, three days after my 30th birthday!!! Too bad I live in MISSOURI. :-) I am going to find a way there - this is a dream come true!!! Peace!

Rachel Greenhouse January 27, 2010 • 08:06 AM

Hi Sara, just wanted you to know that you inspired my blog post today. (It's called Add to the Beauty). That song has become a bit of a theme song for me since I saw you perform at Christ Presbyterian Church in Edina last year (my church.) Just wanted you to know that you are adding to the beauty. Rachel, Il Bel Far Niente blog at Wordpress

Sheryl January 27, 2010 • 06:13 AM

Dearest Sara: I hope this message gets to you because when you're discouraged, I want you to know how much your voice/words help the rest of us who are. I have been suffering from PTST and panick attacks 3 years. I have been taking refuge in the Lord and the Word for healing and needless to say it's been a hard long road. But, let me tell you what hearing your music has given me. I came across your music on a website my 13 year old showed me. I feel gulity saying it was on a free site but I can't afford to buy music as I'd like to these days. One night I had my headphones on and I was listening to "You Are the Sun", just praising, and thinking how I felt like the "moon" but how when Jesus is in my life, I "shine". Suddenly I felt a heavy tingle in the center of my tummy and then I felt what I can only describe as a peacful vibration through my body. It was glorious (and I don't use that word often)! It lasted about 30 seconds but as it was happening, tears were pouring out of my eyes but I didn't "cry" them. I was smiling so hard my face ached. Even at the time my peaceful vibration was happening I hoped my son wouldn't walk in the room because I'm sure I looked pretty silly; smiling, hands raised, and tears (ok mom, yeah you've lost it for sure!)but even then I didn't care, it felt so good. When the feeling passed I "heard" in my mind that I'd been touched by the Holy Spirit. And it came to me through your music. It's happened several times in the last couple of months and on bad days, I crave it, yet respect it as the gift that it is. But, thanks to you (and others I don't know)I can receive it. The Spirit comes to me when I hear a few other of your songs as well. Some days It comes, some days not. But regardless, it's because of your music. And I will pray for you Sara. Keep going like your dad says, and when you're discouraged, remember that you are a part of someone's healing. God bless you, Christian Sister. P.S. I'm going to buy your CD's. God will figure out how I'm going to pay for them!

marc January 27, 2010 • 04:42 AM

Hello Sara's father ! I'm glad you take some time apart each day to read our messages. I met Troy, Sara and the whole band in Evangel church, NJ in december. They were so nice to me ! You surely are a great father to have "made" a woman like Sara. Anyways, when I met the band I had a suggestion : to translate their songs into French, so we can sing them in our churches (oh, X-cuse me, I didn't tell I am French). Troy gave me his e-mail address but I lost it. How can I get in touch with him ?

Rachel January 26, 2010 • 10:15 PM

Please Please Please come to Northern California (preferably Sacramento area :) Your music made me a Christian. Really, I was an atheist before I started listening to your songs, which led me to read God's Word and discover His beautiful plan for me. Please please give a concert here. Please. Pretty please?

charles January 26, 2010 • 09:58 PM

I discovered your music last night on Amazon MP3 via my Palm Pixi. I bought the digital cd after I heard the first few samples. I love your music! Thanks for being a blessing.

Adam and Amber Stutzman January 26, 2010 • 04:16 PM

Our family is in the process of adopting a baby girl from Ethiopia, through All God’s Children International. It has been a long, hard and expensive road requiring a lot of patience. We are officially number 23 on the waitlist to receive our child, and have over the past year, done many fundraisers in order to raise the needed $25,000 to adopt her. After all the hard work, we will finally be traveling to pick her up sometime early this summer. We are going to be ending our fundraisings with a Silent Auction and Dessert Night at our church on April 22nd. While brainstorming ideas of people to help, you came to mind. We understand that you may have policies and requirements which you have to follow but if you could find it in your heart to help us out in our decision to adopt, it would be greatly appreciated. We would be so thankful for anything that you would be willing to donate for our auction! We have thoroughly enjoyed your music and they have been a great part of our lives. We know that anything from you would add something very special to our auction! Thank you for your time and the professionalism that you have shown in your Christian life. Please feel free to visit our adoption blog page, where we try to keep everyone posted on all the events which we have been going through, and what our latest waitlist number is. The blog page can be found at………..adamandamberstutzman.blogspot.com Thank you again and God Bless, Adam & Amber Stutzman Jacob, Cassidy & Zachary, Noah, Logan and soon to be Abigail from Ethiopia 404 Charles Ave. Silverton, OR 97381 awitha@verizon.net

andrea shawley January 26, 2010 • 10:59 AM

Hello sara my name is andrea and I heard your story on wcrf recently about your fear and depression. I have been dealing with exact samething. Your story was a blessing I wanted to say as weird as this sounds and we know God can do anything. I had a dream last nite it was strange. I felt it was so real and God had sent the dream. It was random but you were sitting in front of me and I told you how I had been doubting my salvation I was scared something bad was going to happen to me any minute like God was coming and I wasn't going up. You looked at me with such a clear voice and said that is CONDEMNATION and u didn't have fear bout rapture but u said u had fear. It was very real to me. I just wanted to say I think God sent u to me to encourage me. Thanks

Ric McClary January 22, 2010 • 11:24 AM

Would love to talk with someone about a concert here in Vermont. Love your work. I manage a group of Christian radio stations in New England. Ric McClary GM www.thelightradio.net

Amy January 22, 2010 • 09:34 AM

I just learned "Joy is in our Hearts" - picked the chords off the cd with my guitar. I'm going to sing it at church, provided I don't cry through it. The first half dozen times I listened to it, I just cried. Thank you for writing this. It shook the dust off my soul - as your songs so often do.

Rachel January 20, 2010 • 08:18 PM

Hi Sara! (and anyone that's reading this for her! : ) I LOVE your music and have been looking for accompaniment tracks to some of my favorites to sing in church. However, I seem to have fallen in love with your music too late! I can't seem to find any accompaniment tracks-- that are still printed-- of Generations. Is there ANYWHERE that sells it still? I searched online several times (and even tried ebay!) but nothing showed up. If anyone knows of this track, I'd love to pay you for it!

Wendy January 20, 2010 • 09:23 AM

Sara, I was at your Christmas concert at Open Door in December. Three days before the concert I had arrived back in the States from a four month trip to Uganda, Rwanda, and South Africa. As you played "I saw what I saw" with the video, I started weeping immidiately, seeing people so like my friends I had just left. It was already my favorite song, but the added elements of the concert, the video, and the jet lag made it a very emotional experience! I will be moving to Rwanda in July to work with the organization Cornerstone Development-Africa. Maybe on your trip next March I will be able to see you in concert in Rwanda! Your songs about Rwanda will continue to inspire me as I prepare to move. Thank you.

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Alison St John January 18, 2010 • 04:18 PM

I know you guys are concerned about Haiti...there is a missionary couple: Troy Livesay. He is twittering his experience supporting the injured. On his bio, he lists Sara Groves as one of his favorite musicians...you might see what you can do for Troy, his family, and the injured he is supporting. Thanks, Alison St John KCPrayers - Twitter

Nance Schroeck January 17, 2010 • 11:14 AM

When I read that Sara's dad reads the mail, I was touched. I had a very inspiring father who passed away in May at 84. He was the one who pushed me to write and sing.To you Sara's dad, I know she wouldn't be such an instrument of hope without God, and her parent's. So, thank you. I am a musician who is working with a church to help bring life to the congregation. I would like to use a chorus from one of her songs in our music program. I do not know who to contact to ask permission. I would also like her to know that she really has been an instrument of healing music. As a composer, I am awe inspired by her. I do not write, because right now, there are a few excellent musical angels that need to have their music brought into the churches. She is one of them. Many blessings, Nance

danny January 17, 2010 • 11:15 AM

is there any chance you can post the 'when the saints' video from the ijm tour with derek webb and sandra mccracken? i love the song, and the video added so much. thanks and blessings.

Hillary January 16, 2010 • 03:26 PM

Sara, I have been listening to you since your album "conversations" was released and have not stopped buying every album you come out with. You have such a gift at writing the perfect songs for any situation. I am currently a freshman at a college 3,000 miles away from home and I have been going through a hard time of where God is calling me. As I was packing to come back for spring semester, "from this one place," came on. It was the exact thing I needed to hear. So thank you, keep doing what you are dong because you are changing lives with every note.

Judy January 15, 2010 • 05:01 PM

Sara, Your CD came into our house as a Christmas gift for my daughter, two days after I had surgery for melanoma. Unsure if it spread to the lymph system, my Christmas season was more of an "advent," in anticipation of the test results. I started listening to your CD a few days after Christmas. I can't tell you how much of a blessing your music was to me during this incredibly stressful time. God's grace blew into my soul through your music and lyrics. Test results are in and I received great news that the cancer did not spread and I don't need further treatment. Each day is truly a gift from God and all I know is that I get to spend one more day with my husband, three beautiful daughters, and my friends that make life "half as hard and twice as good." I'm grateful for you!

Kerri January 15, 2010 • 03:07 PM

I became a Christian 10 years ago this year, and for nearly all of my walk, your songs have gone with me. God speaks through your words in so many comforting and challenging ways.... your songs have lead me nearer to Him and nearer to the life He's wanting me to lead. Thank you. Would you come to the UK....I'd travel length & breadth to hear you sing live. Blessings to you and your family Kerri x

Sylvia January 15, 2010 • 10:18 AM

Impossible to tell all the ways your poems/music has sustained my soul/heart/relationships, in particular "You are the Sun", "Roll to the middle" "This journey is my own", "When the Saints", etc.etc. These seem like such stupid little words beside all I've received from so many of your songs. Thank God I read about you in a stray "Christianity Today" and looked you up on U tube. Your poems are inspired and thank God he gives you strength to do this even while you put priority on your family (THAT'S SO IMPORTANT). I couldn't get down to Maine for your closest show. It's too far. If ever you come up to Montreal, Canada, I hope I can see you play and sing in person. I also love piano. Did you think of making a CD just piano? (I play piano in our little French church.) Thank you, and some advice, make sure you get rested after that big tour in December!

Elizabeth January 13, 2010 • 06:41 AM

Thanks you for being real, and from what I can see, being yourself. When my heart was hard, your songs have helped break it. When I needed comfort and a reminder of the truth, there they were. Thank you, Elizabeth

Joe January 12, 2010 • 12:38 PM

My wife and I were fortunate enough to see you and your band in concert in December 2009, and we loved your song, "This House." We're currently going through the adoption process, and we can't wait to add a new member to our family. We hope our house is a place where he or she dreams and plans, making memories for miles and miles. It's been both a tough and rewarding journey to this point, but God has definitely withheld no good thing!

Victoria January 12, 2010 • 12:09 PM

Sara, My son and his girlfriend mentioned a mission trip that you will be apart of this spring. I would love to surprise them with that trip. Where can I get the information? Thanks, In Christ, V-

Kirsten January 11, 2010 • 04:57 PM

Dear Sara, Our homegroup has been together for 11 years. Last week we tried a new theme for our times together. We each brought 2 songs that have been spiritually significant in our journey of faith. I brought my theme song for 2010, "Add to the Beauty" and my husband brought "Twice as Good." We feel like both of these songs were written for our group...as we've shared together ups and downs in marriages, infertility and adoption, teenagers, job lose, you name it! Thank you for writing songs that speak to our hearts. Will you ever come to Northern California? Wells Fargo Center in Santa Rosa, CA?

Rebecca Caperton January 11, 2010 • 09:44 AM

Dear Sara, My family and I attend Warrenton Baptist Church, (Warrenton, Va.-about 1 hr west of D.C.). Thru the years, we have been involved in "Friends of Ft Liberte" a missions, both as family, and this year, by sending our son, Brian, and our daughter, Jennifer to minister/serve the people of Haiti. This Sunday, the team celebrated with a video and music to share their experiences with the congregation. One of our youth, Lee Wilkers put the video presentation together. It was so moving, he used your song, "I Saw What I Saw" and words cannot describe how moving the words were to all who heard your beautiful voice. Thank you for sharing your gifts....if you/your family are ever in the part of the U.S., you always have "friends" in Warrenton. God Bless You, Rebecca Caperton P.S. You can view the video on youtube.com/userlwilkers08.

WBMoore January 11, 2010 • 08:54 AM

My wife sang "The Word" yesterday in a church full of white haired folks. It was obvious none had heard it before. But they were touched by God and the message He spoke through your lyrics. Thanks for being used by God that way.

Nathalie Riekerk January 11, 2010 • 05:53 AM

PLEASE COME TO HOLLAND XOXOXO Nathalie en Gieneke

Jeremy January 09, 2010 • 08:27 PM

God gives good gifts! Your music has been one. Thanks! Much love and thanks to you and yours.

erika January 07, 2010 • 06:47 AM

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the new album fireflies and songs!! What a beautiful gift of sharing your words thru music that God has given you!! I bought the special you had last year...the mug/coffee, and CD...will you come out with that again and if you do please let me know?! I am on your email list! I would love to give the mug/coffee/cd as a gift. Love you Sara - thank you for writing such amazing lyrics and putting them to music in a way that is so beautiful!!

Emily Murray January 06, 2010 • 08:46 PM

How can I tell you how much you've meant to me?! I was hanging out with a girlfriend of mine and we were talking about music, and I said "Sara Groves has gotten me through the hardest stuff in my life" and she said "Oh, word" and we high-fived over it :) Really though, last year, as I was driving in the mornings to a job that made me cry every day, you were the only thing I could listen to to help me get my heart ready. We had your "He's always been faithful" in our wedding, it's the sweetest! And now, I've either been listening to or singing your new album non-stop for a week! Graham(my husband's)favorite is "different kinds of happy", and mine is "twice as good", it males me think of my sweet cousin Christy as does "every minute". I really DO wish all the people I love the most could gather in one place and know each other and love each other well. Heaven's gonna be the sweetest, huh? I hope this all shows you how much you've encouraged me!!! ps: My husband and I just watched Sweet Land, it was super sweet :)

Taylor January 06, 2010 • 02:40 PM

Blessed, Psalm 121:7-8 The LORD will keep you from all harm he will watch over your life; the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore. Psalm 27:14 Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD. Psalm 119:105 His word is a lamp to your feet and a light to your path. Matthew 28:20 I am with you always, to the close of the age. God Loves You, Taylor@BrooksPublication.com

Terry Brown January 05, 2010 • 06:06 PM

Though I'd never heard you before when I heard you were coming to my church in Springfield-Calvary Temple-I knew I had to be there. I don't drive and I had to jump through a couple of hoops to get there and I thank God I did. Thank-you for inviting us in to be a part of the concert. Your concert rates on a par with our unplugged worship we had here a few months ago. I think both gave me a little taste of heaven. God bless you, your family and friends and your ministries. In love, Terry

Heather January 05, 2010 • 08:00 AM

Hi Sara and friends, Just wanted to say what a blessing and inspiration your music continues to be in my life. I am currently teaching English in Shanghai, China and the CD's have meant even more to me since I've been here. I loved "Tell me What you Know" because of it's message of justice and "Add to the Beauty" too, but "All Right Here" has been played the most since I left home. My Mom actually sent me "Fireflies and Songs" for Christmas ! The challenge to live confessionally is a great start for the New Year. Thanks for the music and lives that reflect what you are singing about. I'd love to join you on one of your visits to Rwanda if I get the opportunity. God Bless !

Stef Mena January 04, 2010 • 04:31 PM

Sara your music means so much to me. After a dream about Archangel Michael in 1999 it took me five years of self examination to become a complete born again Jesus Freak christian. I often say I want nothing from Jesus but a chance to love him and to be near him. I still don't know why God saved me with a dream. I really didn't deserve his grace. God Bless You and Thank You! Stef Mena

Margaret Adams January 03, 2010 • 07:19 PM

Sara-God has used your music to speak to the hearts of a few people in North Philadelphia to help us keep going in ministry, to remind us of God's promises, to put into perspective the suffering, trauma, and disease we sometimes see, and to invite us to continually surrender our lives to Jesus. Thank you for putting scripture and life to music--letting the Father rejoice over us with singing...Zephaniah 3:17

Nicole January 02, 2010 • 11:59 AM

Hi Sara- I've never been one to just LOVE one certain singer/songwriter's music .... but that has changed since I've started listening to you a few years ago. Your lyrics and melodies deeply resonate with my heart ... the perspectives you have and the way you use scripture in songs. I've always thought the best way for me to memorize scripture was to put it to song, so thanks! I praise GOD for His work through you. I also LOVE your songbook... perfect for my voice range :) If you ever do another songbook with your latest albums, I'd be the first to purchase one! May God continue to bless and inspire you for His eternal purposes! Also, I saw you in Springfield IL and heard about the Rwanda trip coming up in March. I'd be interested in more information, if possible. Thanks again and blessings to you and yours -Nicole Oh, and it was special to hear your parents sing! What a wonderful legacy of song!

Lacey January 01, 2010 • 09:03 PM

Hello Sara! My fiance and I are getting married this coming August and one of our favorite songs is your song, Song of Solomon. We would REALLY like to use this in our wedding, but understand that the music is not available. The song seems to be a perfect description of what we would like our marriage to stand for. We would love it if it could be part of our day. Is there any way you could help us get a copy of your music? Thanks!

Christian Kiedrowski January 01, 2010 • 05:52 PM

Hey Sara! Some friends and I are attempting to do your song, "You are the Sun", for a talent show at school. We were wondering if you had any resources for music (We're really struggling on getting the ending chords for the last chorus). We were wondering if you could help us out? E-mail me - Thanks

megan December 30, 2009 • 08:36 PM

I was able to see you in person at a womens retreat in Lancaster, PA a few years ago. I loved how you shared about the history of your songs. For me the song that still resinates with me is "Painting pictures of Egypt" I would LOVE to know the backgroud for that song. I am a wife, mom of three under 13, and I volunteer at the local pregancy resources center (I hang out with mom's who chose to keep their babies and we talk about what it is like to be a mom and I share with them about my relationship with Jesus) Thank you for you encouragement thru music. May God richly bless you!

Pat December 30, 2009 • 01:31 PM

Sara, Thanks for calming my heart and mind today. I was completely wrapped up in the world today, but your music is helping me to calm back down. Thank God for the beautiful gift that is you!

Stephanie December 29, 2009 • 06:38 PM

Hello - I recv'd the "tell me what you know" cd from a coworker after my grandma died and it helped me a great deal... now for christmas, i recv'd the fireflies & songs and I LOVE the version of "It is well". Is there anywhere I can get the arrangement or lyrics? It is just SO BEAUTIFUL. I've been brought to happy tears. Keep up the great work, Sara! God's Blessings to you & your family :-)

Sarah Balogh December 28, 2009 • 06:10 PM

Hi Sara, I found your music a couple of years ago and ever since I have been an avid fan. I am a mother of two small children, and as you know there are many days and nights where life is hard. I often put your music on to encourage me in my faith, to sing along to and to be reminded of the hope we have in Christ. I can not tell you how much God has blessed me through your music, how I have been encouraged to press on through the tears, and joys. Your music is an ever constant love in my everyday life and through it you are not only blessing me but also my children and family. I thank God for the way he has gifted you and for the way he loves me through you. Even from the other side of the world, I live in NSW Australia! But like the Bible says, No one can grasp how long, deep and wide the love of Christ is!Thank you and may God bless you, Your sister in Christ, Sarah Balogh (and my family, Akos, Lucinda and Mishka)

Caryl December 27, 2009 • 07:27 PM

Im sitting on my couch with tears in my eyes and "Song for my Sons" is blaring thru my stereo. To be brief, I have been listening to your music since your Conversations CD. Your music has helped me thru multiple battles.I found out I was pregnant out of wedlock on Dec. 26,2007. I was not with the father and terrified -even though i was 29. I kept her & God has changed my life dramatically b/c of my daughter, His grace, His desperate pursuit to show me He is the only way, and your music. Now, I am a single mom with a extreme battle on my hands. I would love to share specifics privately with you if there is anyway I can get this information to you for your prayers and possibly your help. THank you for your songs. They are what I put on 24/7 these days to praise Him and cry out before Him. Your music has changed my life. Beauty from Ashes - Caryl

Reg December 27, 2009 • 10:32 AM

Just wanted to send you a quick note of encouragement. Your song 'When the Saints' is so inspiring and powerful. Thank you.

Erich December 26, 2009 • 10:38 AM

Thanks again, Sara- for the honesty, the tenacity, the openness, and above all, the hope that flows through your songs. God calls to me through your music, grounding me when I feel that I'm in middle of a pathless sea. "I cannot make it/and I cannot fake it/and I can't afford it/but it's mine." Grace beyond my wildest dreams, more than enough. Have a blessed year!

Cara R December 26, 2009 • 09:10 AM

I just wanted to say thank you Sara for your beautiful words. My college roommate introduced me to you back in 2001 and you have traveled with my family and I since then. I just recently was married (April 2009) and your words have been an encouagement me to me through all the breakups and loneliness when I was convinced I'd never get married and then in the joy of finally getting there. My husband and I danced to "Fly" and are now packing up to move to a new area (he's a pastor) and once again, I was touched by your song "It's True" as I remember what's really important. Thank you.

Wendy LeBlanc December 25, 2009 • 05:56 PM

Hi Sara, I just finished watching your Nomad DVD (Just showed up for my own life). I could so relate as I am getting ready to go to Senegal, Africa myself at the end of April 2010. I also will leave my three young children. The Lord has been preparing me for a music ministry and I definetely feel that this trip is a huge part of the molding that is taking place in my heart as He reveals the calling. Thank You for sharing your story. I have been feeling a lot of mixed emotions but I know He has called me to go and so I will!! May God continue to bless you throughout this wonderful journey. Wendy:)

Shari Rightmer December 25, 2009 • 04:48 PM

Hi Sara, I came across you voice by watching "The Ultimate Gift" a favorite movie of mine. Due to many losses, I just recently came from Bunk #11 Homeless Shelter and when I listened to your song, "Something Changed" I cried, because the words seem as though you were singing my heart. I have a web site with my story and newspaper article: www.ShariRightmer.com and have a link to this song and wanted to know if it was okay with you to share you, God, from my web site. My life is so wonderful and I thank you for sharing your gift and passion to the world. With All I Am in Love, Shari

Julie Baker December 25, 2009 • 12:49 PM

Hello Sara, Melody, Troy, Zack, Ben and Aaron, My husband and I saw all of you for the 2nd time on Dec. 19th in Indianapolis. Your show was our Christmas gift to each other. I wanted to let all of you know how much we enjoy the music you make. We have been listening for about 3 years now and your talent, your ministry is such a big part of our lives. We have four children, we homeschool, we both work and your music is so relevant and so real to ordinary people like us. Our family is continually blessed by the gift God has given all of you. We did hope you would mention something about Ben and how he is doing. When we saw you in Terre Haute almost 2 yrs ago you mentioned that he was very soon to be a first-time daddy. Jerry and I have thought of him often ever since. There is nothing like the first one. (except maybe the 2nd, 3rd, 4th...) God Bless Jerry and Julie Baker

Beth McMillan December 25, 2009 • 12:08 PM

Sara, Merry Christmas. Our family went to your O Holy Night concert in Springfield, IL, and we were so blessed by your voice, band and the Spirit's presence in that church. You couldn't tell you had been on the road for over 2 weeks. The band's music was so beautiful. I felt like I have so much in common with you, as I was born Oct 3 of 1972, lived in a really old house like you growing up,we have 3 children (14,10,6) in the throws of raising them, have 2 parents who loved the Lord, and have had several marital struggles in the 15 years we've been married, but God has always been faithful to get us thru the hard times. I picked up your new release the day before the concert, and love the music and messages that relate to friends in the Lord , marriage, and kids!!! I hope that you have a time of refreshing this Christmas season, and enjoy your family. It was extra special having your parents there, you all singing together. My parents love to sing and mom plays the piano,(choirs) but I have never thought of just singing with them when we are together. I'll have to do that, they would love that!!! It's so neat to see how you honor your parents, and grandparents. Blessings, Beth McMillan

Dana December 24, 2009 • 04:32 AM

Thanks for all your wonderful lyrics and songs--I used to listen to you in college. I'm not sure what happened to many of my CDs, but I saw you in Fremont, Ne this past fall with friends of Rachel's, and right away remembered many of your songs from a decade ago--I was so excited to remember! Now I listen to your music again quite a bit and feel very inspired to do more for Jesus. Grace and blessings to you and your family this Christmas!

Nancy December 23, 2009 • 09:07 AM

Hi Sara Your voice is an incredible gift from God. Our church performed "Breath of Heaven" as part of the Christmas program. When will the sheet music be available? God bless you and your family this Christmas and always. Nancy Richards

John Thomson December 22, 2009 • 08:38 AM

Thank you Troy and Sara. While I know Lloyd and Nita and Mom Carter would deflect the honor to God, I have always wanted to express my appreciation to them for what they have meant to Mary and me. I don't know if they will get to hear any of what I shared but you can tell them. You gave me a special way to do so. Our little Charlie (2 yr. old grandson) will be a sheep in this years play as he was last year, after his birth (in the month of October) he was 'baby Jesus' in '07. Merry Christmas to you all.

Russ Schwartz December 21, 2009 • 08:51 PM

My wife and I went to your Christmas concert in Wanamaker (Indianapolis), Indiana. Ruth has long been a fan of your music, and I gave the concert tickets to her as an early Christmas present. What a special evening it was! You were so generous to share videos and stories of your family, to allow Melody do a few solos (we bought her album!), and to allow us to worship with you in song. Please come and see us again soon! -- Russ

Pam December 21, 2009 • 12:57 PM

What a beautiful worship time last night! God works in many situations and through numerous people....God has used your music over and over again to speak to my heart and provide quiet in times of chaos. Thank you for using the gifts God has given you to impact the lives of others. Merry Christmas to you and your family (and remember to keep humming along as you reset the daily pins).

Jason Merrill December 21, 2009 • 08:48 AM

I went to your conference in Indianapolis, IN. It was awesome!!! Thanks for beming so down to earth. Best of all thanks for loving and promoting Jesus.

Ed Tibbits December 21, 2009 • 07:51 AM

Sara and family, My wife and I were at your show in Sprinfield Il.last night. This was a night to remember, you opened your heart and life to us in a unique and meaningful way. God was tugging on our hearts. I especially enjoyed the phone interview with the fellow in Chicago. It is encouraging to see how God interacts with us when we are faithful. I heard about you doing the concerts in Prison and think that is awesome! I too have done time in prison and was a homeless alcoholic before coming to the Lord 8 years ago. I recently graduated from Central Christian College of the Bible in Moberly, MO and am now attending Seminary at Lincoln Christian University. I have been a fan of yours since I first saw you in Peoria, Il. in 2002.When I was just a babe in Christ. I feel like I know you even though we have never met; my wife and I were so moved last night we sponsored a child, a first for us. Blessings Forever and Merry Christmas, Ed & Janel Tibbits

Daniel Nixon December 21, 2009 • 07:20 AM

I have recently posted a video on YouTube with your song Tent in the Center of Town. The images are of my parents tent crusades in Australia in the 1950's. The tune and lyrics of your song are truly inspiring and I thank you for them. I hope my parents are blessed for their Godly work 60 + years ago.

Faith December 20, 2009 • 06:10 AM

Thank you for a wonderful concert in Maple Grove, Sara! You are an incredible blessing to me and have been a spiritual mentor to me. Thank you for your obedience through your music and your involvement with those in need. Because of the promptings I received from the Holy Spirit during your concert, I have sponsored a child through Food for the Hungry. THANK YOU for leading the way. May God bless you and your family. Faith

Adam and Katie McDaniel December 19, 2009 • 08:12 PM

Just saw the O Holy Night Tour. Thank you for letting God use you. The truth in the songs you write and the words you speak pierce the heart. We are continually ministered to by your music. Thank you for coming to Indianapolis! You are an answer to prayer.

Michelle Bogda December 19, 2009 • 07:51 PM

I heard Sara for the first time at a MOPS convention. I bought two albums. Station Wagon Songs and Tell me what you know. This week a friend died. She was 38 years old and mother to 6 beautiful children ages 3-13. 5 boys, and finally a girl. I remember Sara talking about how special it was to have a daughter. The funeral for my friend, Sara, was Friday December 17th. Before the funeral, I was grieving and thinking. I pulled out Tell me What you Know. "Song for my sons" is the first song and it really helped me think about how God is still good even when we don't understand the events that are happening around us. I want to thank Sara Groves for reminding me of the HOPE that believers have even during the death of a loved wife, mother and friend. THANKS SO MUCH! God bless you and your work as an artist.

Paris December 18, 2009 • 08:06 PM

Sara, I watched with my children just a few of your videos on youtube and was moved by the things you shared from your heart. I am sorry to say I had never heard any of your music before that I could remember. But today I watched a video of Brandon Heath "Love Never Fails" which you appeared in. I enjoyed your sound and decided to find out more about you and your music, and I was glad that I did. You have such a graceful way to make a difference in others lives and to contibute back with the gifts from the heart which I am proud to see that you have and still do. My children and I enjoyed your messages of love and hope. I encourage you to continue the work before you spreading the love of God. I could also see that you were sharing the love of your own heart as well. You do not know us but you blessed our lives today and that is a rare gift indeed. My story is no different than most who suffer in this world other than God found me at the time I needed someone the most and blessed my life, as he continues to with the gift of each new day I recieve. I use my time as well to touch as many lives as I can every day even if its just one that I reach. I am a single father who 6 1/2 years ago was givin the news that I had a terminal form of cancer for which there is no cure. Then the only thing that I thought held my life together was my family and the world around us destroyed that too... just after finishing chemo that didn't work and facing then a personal choice to try a new form of radiation, with some success of knocking back the cancer growth, matters still got worse, but I still held on even when I felt I had nothing left to hold on too, God still held on to me. He took me on a very difficult journey but tought me the difference between believing in and having faith and actually living my faith. For this I believe his gift to me has been each new day for it is a new chance to make a difference, to watch my children grow and share just a little more love with others. Love is something that is lost or a stranger to others and the word has no meaning to most anymore. Love is not how well you say it or articulate it.... but how well you share it and live it every day. The only way others see God today is if they see him in you. It is the same with His love, others don't truely see it until they see it in you. My grandmother told me many years ago that the reason we all search for it and want it so much is because it was the closest thing we had to true magic in this world. Sharing Gods love is just that. That is something I was able to see in you just through your videos and I found the way you open your heart to the world a joyful and refreshing thing see. No matter how much or how little more time God allows me to be givin, it was important for me to share this moment of my life with you so you know you touched our lives today. I encourage you to continue on even when you feel you cant, or when you feel your life has reached its darkest moment, trust me when I say God is still holding you, for love is the very foundation and cornerstone of everything in Christ. So, thank you for the opportunity to leave these few words of encouragement, I pray a prayer of continued joy, peace and showers of blessings over your life and the lives of your family tonight, be safe, be well, and most of all be blessed. Paris

Sherry December 18, 2009 • 08:34 PM

Please come back to Texas. The only time I saw you was the art, music & justice tour. You only sang a few songs, and I cried with joy the whole time. Would love to have you back in the Dallas area or anywhere within a day's driving distance!

nate December 18, 2009 • 07:35 PM

Hi sara, I was at your concert, in Alex last night. WOW! I wasn't familiar with your music, so I wasn't prepared for what I was to hear. You guys were great! Keep up the outstanding job!

Ted Decker December 18, 2009 • 07:42 PM

I'm in the Philippines and just purchased your Christmas album from iTunes. I found you by accident on AOL Radio -- I've been streaming Christian Christmas music. I first tried to find you on Limewire (sorry) and when I couldn't, I tried iTunes and also got a couple of songs from mp3codes.com . I spent the first 30 years of my life in Duluth, moved to Florida, and now have a new family here. Keep the great music coming. Bless you and your family!

Misty December 18, 2009 • 04:53 PM

Hi Sara...you have some wonderful music that soothes my soul! Could you tell me, though, what is "All Right Here" about? I guessed the Bible, but I could be wrong. Thanks and God bless!

Charlotte Gale December 18, 2009 • 01:37 PM

Sara, I first stumbled on your music when I was listening to Christian artists on Rhapsody. This last year I experienced God's powerful saving grace and it has inspired me to write a book. "Something Changed" melted my heart when I heard it because it expressed so clearly what had happened to me. God saved me on Ash Wednesday of all days. My story's main theme is about guilt and forgiveness. I'm wondering if you have a song that you have written about this. I had an abortion at a very young age and kept the secret for over 20 years. I know God has introduced me to your music and I am seeking the perfect song to reflect the theme of my book. I love the song Add To The Beauty but it doesn't quite fit. God Bless and keep on writing! Charlotte Gale

Phil December 17, 2009 • 02:22 PM

Saw you and the band in Niles Oh Sunday night. Great times! Funny how this works, a couple weeks ago I was asked to help with the prison ministry here in Indiana Pa and wouldn't you know Sunday night you talked w/someone touched deeply by prison ministry. I never gave it a thought about doing this type of ministry, but now I wonder, could it be I was there Sunday for a reason, God's subtle orchestration of individual lives, What a bizarre/beautiful God we have, that would take an interest in me. Dec 23th Christmas service at the county Jail, pray for us. Please P.S. I actually came to see Ben. I love Ben's work, I know him via P Baloche, Thanks Ben for the few minutes we talked, you can't imagine.

Brian Dalrymple December 17, 2009 • 12:43 PM

Hi Sara - just wanted to thank you for Child of Love. My 16yo daughter performed it during our church Christmas program, and it brought tears to my eyes.

Aaron Gibson December 17, 2009 • 11:21 AM

Hi Sara, I just wanted to tell you that your music has been a major part of my life and household. You have a depth of insight from the Lord that cuts through so much garbage and just make you think, or laugh or cry. Thank you!

Donna Wojculewski McIlvaine December 16, 2009 • 12:58 PM

Sara, Just wanted to tell you what a blessing your music has been to my daughter and me. I grew up in Chestnut Assembly of God with your Grandfather as my pastor and his family, including your mother, (and your father), as part of my family for all of my childhood. I met your Aunt Ruth a couple of years ago, she told us about you, and we immediately went out and purchased your music. (I knew the talent in your genes!) We've been fans ever since. I'm so sorry we missed you the last time you were here and look forward to your return. May God richly bless you and your family, especially your parents, during this Christmas season. Donna Wojculewski McIlvaine

Karan Armstrong December 16, 2009 • 11:11 AM

I heard your program yesterday on Moody radio and heard about the panic attacks. I agree with you that it's painful, but boy, will you grow. I had them for many years before they were "fasionable" and everyone was having them. I had to cling to God every time I got up to sing in the choir or in an ensemble. He NEVER failed me. I feel like a recovered alcoholic in that I will never say I am "over it" but a recoverying person who has to cling to him every day, every minute. What glorious things you will learn.

Randy White December 16, 2009 • 09:43 AM

Sara, keep going. You are making a difference. I am using your music, especially "When the Saints" to invite students to get trained for transformational ministries in mega slums through Bakke Graduate University. We are training modern saints for ministry in the hardest places on earth, and your music speaks to the heart's longing for harmony with the purposes of God, His passion for justice. Thank you. - Dr. Randy White

Melanie December 16, 2009 • 08:23 AM

Hello Sara. What a blessing your music and lyrics have been to me over the last 15 years. I began listening to your music when you were a part of "Out of the Grey" when I was in college. I've now been married for 15 years and have 3 children. The last 2 years I have been experiencing what I now recognize as panic attacks. I was driving down a dark country road one evening when returning home from work. I then heard you Moody Live being interviewed....discussing your recent bout with panic attacks. I was absolutely speechless! I have had a hard time acknowledging that I was experiencing panic attacks, as I am a happy mother and wife with 3 wonderful children, good job, and have been a christian my whole life.....what on earth would I have to be anxious about???? Well, hearing that someone like you, who has had a ministry that overcomes listeners with the peace, love, and hope of Christ....could be struggling with anxiety was let's say.....releasing for me. I pray everyday that God takes these anxious moments from me, so that I don't have to fear it anymore. God Bless you for being so transparent, it truely does speak to your listeners. God blessed me this week with 2 free CD's of your latest hits AS WELL AS 4 free tickets to your benefit concern in Indianapolis in 3 days! The Holy Spirit nudged me to call in to my local radio station to win these giveaways on my way to work.....I was obediant....and now I've been double blessed not only from your testimony but with free music & tickets from you! ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!! God is so good and SO faithful.....just further confirmation that if I hold on to God's promises, he will bring healing into my life.

Kurtis Funk December 16, 2009 • 08:16 AM

Sara My wife continues to take me to your concerts whenever you are remotely in the area...most recently at the Hershey Free Church. You are her favorite artist, and I can tell why...you are so sincere at heart. I truly appreciated that. The thing that most caught my attention was when you talk about the village in Africa you travel to each and every year with a group. I too have been to Africa for a 2 week stint entering my junior year of college, it changed my life for the better...one of those eternal changes. Since this time, I have been trying to get my wife to go as well. As soon as your husband Troy mentioned that you take people with to Rwanda, I felt an immediate tug on my heart. I would love for my wife to be apart of such a trip. She has such a heart for missions and serves with me in our ministry whole heartedly(I am a youth pastor). I could think of no better thank you or reward for her to be able to send her to a place where she has often wanted to go...especially since I had such a life-changing experience. We could raise the funds for her to go, but only for one of us, which is why I would love for you to consider taking her with on the trip this March. Mission's is something that she is passionate about, and part of my job as her husband is to encourage those types of passions. I feel very awkward writing this on a guestbook wall, but it is really the only way, lol. I guess if you don't respond, that simply means this was not the right time for Kelly (my wife) to go. With that said, she would help your team tremendously...she is incredible. I know this is a shot in the dark, but I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I had to do something. It would be the ultimate meaningful Christmas gift. Thanks. Godbless, Kurt Funk email address. kurt@palmyrabic.org

Robin Reed December 15, 2009 • 06:43 PM

Dear Sara-You're music continues to heal, soothe & uplift me. These are the sacred lyrics to "Have Yourself A Merry/Blessed Little Christmas" by Hugh Martin: Christmas Future is far away Christmas Past is past Christmas Present is here today Bringing joy that will last Have yourself a blessed little Christmas Christ the King is born Let your voices ring upon this happy morn Have yourself a blessed little Christmas Serenade the Earth Tell the world we celebrate the Savior's birth Let us all proclaim the joyous tidings Voices raised on high Send this carol soaring up into the sky, This very merry blessed Christmas lullaby. Let us gather to sing to Him And to bring to Him our praise Son of God and a Friend of all To the end of all our days Sings hosannas, hymns, and hallelujahs As to Him we bow Make the music mighty as the heav’ns allow And have yourself a blessed little Christmas now.

Joe Shively December 15, 2009 • 01:51 PM

Ok, I'm an older guy, comtemplating life and the mysteries therein. I'm driving on I-40 somewhere between Wilmington and Raleigh North Carolina. I was bored with myself and decided to listen to the van radio. I kept smashing the "seek" button coming up with things I have heard over and over, all not suiting my mood. It was somber. The weather was dreary and cold, but my spirit wasn't as damp as the ground outside. Suddenly I hear you Sara, for the first time. Girl, you have my ear, and as soon as I get home, my wife's as well. God Bless you and your gift Sara!!!

Joe Shively December 15, 2009 • 01:51 PM

Ok, I'm an older guy, comtemplating life and the mysteries therein. I'm driving on I-40 somewhere between Wilmington and Raleigh North Carolina. I was bored with myself and decided to listen to the van radio. I kept smashing the "seek" button coming up with things I have heard over and over, all not suiting my mood. It was somber. The weather was dreary and cold, but my spirit was not dampened. Suddenly I hear you Sara, for the first time. Girl, you have my ear, and as soon as I get home, my wife's as well. God Bless you and your gift Sara!!!

Molly Tomashek December 15, 2009 • 01:00 PM

Treasured memories, treasured jewel I want to keep you close to me. Little fingers that fit in my hand, I want to keep you close to me. To touch your apple-dumpling cheeks, To trace the curls around your face, To smell your baby skin as you nestle in my arms, To see you dream in blissful sleep, Without a care in the world, To wonder what you’re dreaming, to wonder what you’re dreaming. Treasured memories, treasured jewel I want to keep you close to me. Little fingers that fit in my hand, I want to keep you close to me. But I must let you go to soar, To soar with your own wings. I must watch you face your trials and let you fail. How hard it is to see Your children walk away, But I know into Whose Hands I let you go… God’s treasured possession, His treasured jewel Please keep them close to You. Little fingers, now the same as mine, Please keep them close to You. And now I know why my mom still says, “Call when you get there.” And why she still wants a kiss before I go. Why she still cries with me, When things don’t go my way, And she celebrates every time I win. I’m Your treasured possession, treasured jewel, Please keep me close to You. My little fingers in Your Hand, Please keep me close to You, Please keep me close to You. Someday I would love to hear your voice singing this song that God gave me.- Molly Tomashek Green Bay, WI

Thomas December 15, 2009 • 11:33 AM

Sara, I heard you on Mid-Day and wanted to encourage you that your willingness to share from your heart makes a real difference. Someone (Tozar?) said something like, "the only person God can use mightily is someone who God has wounded mightily." Well, your wounds are being used. One of your songs was used in my life in a mighty way while my wife and I were separated. Our 23 year marriage was dead and each of us were camped out in our self 'rights-ness'. We were going to a third counseling session that promised to be the last ever as the two prior had been a total waste. Somehow Bob sensed this was it, so he shared an exercise with us that amazing-gracefully got us to see our own wickedness while also seeing the hurt in our partner. When we left that day we agreed that perhaps there was a very small chance that we just might someday have a slightly restored relationship. The next day I was driving and for the first time listened to your song 'Hope'. The tears just blew out of me. A couple weeks later I got to share it with my wife and this year we got to celebrate our 25th anniversary together. All praise to our great and gracious Savior Jesus the Christ!

Liliana December 15, 2009 • 11:26 AM

Hi Sara, i thank you for your openness in sharing your most recent bout with anxiety/panic attacks, through Moody, Mid-Day Connection. I too recently experienced and as I dealt with mine I was told to take antidepressants, I was very leery about doing so, so I cried out to God and by his grace I felt he took to me to look up symptoms of Menopause. Wouldnt you know it,since Dec 08 I have opted for vitamis and Fish oil through an exclusive website I found and its been magnificent for my life. I am once again focused, alert, and feeling so much more healthy. My prayer walk with God is so much more enlifting and I am delighted by his discernment that morning I reached and asked for his help. God is faithful. I pray through your journey our good Lord Jesus Christ will carry and lead you back to where you once were before they started. God bless you and all you do for God through your music. Love, sister in Christ, Liliana

danyell December 15, 2009 • 06:43 AM

hi how r u doing my name is danyell and im a mother of 5 children and a grandson i was siting at the computer and just started crying because of what me and my children are going though and feeling just tired of faceing problems and something began to speak to me and say type in the computer it is going to be all right and i did so and up came a lady by the name of sara groves and she was singing a song saying everythings going to be all right and i never knew about nor heard her before but it was so amazin and a warm feeling of faith came over me and and tears started streaming down my face and i just began to feel encourage me and my children lost our home because we had to move out of it because the county we lived in said it wasnt fit to live in and that if the repairs was not done on it by a deadline the county gave us me and my children would have to move out of our home the county we lived in gave us november 23,2009 to move out if the repairs wasnot done and my landlord couldnt aford to get them fixed so we had to move not knowing where we was going i with 5 children and a grandson tryed to find shelter with friends it was really hard for me because lots of people dont want to take in a big family like mine they hinted off to me and said that they will give me and my children a couple of weeks then now we were faced with another deadline i super worried not really knowing if i can really take care of my children and not wanting us to be split up as of today we are still awaiting a home barely surviving as a mother i feel helpless because i cannot really help my children and if you ever had children you would know what i mean. My children want a happy christmas but we dont have one or no money Im a poor mother but i try to make ends meet and be the good mother with my abilty please if u read this story about me and my children please find it in your heart to help us have a blessed happy merry christmas at least and it will give us more hope on waiting on our hopefully home that we get please miss.sara groves sincerly danyell may god continue to do a great work in and out ur life

Candace Raines December 15, 2009 • 06:35 AM

Hello Sara, I read you often do not get to read these entries, but I do write in the hopes that this will somehow reach you. First, I would like to thank you for willingness to be guided by the spirit through the poetic melodies of your music. As a writer you are truly gifted at writing music with message, meaning and signficance. I first was introduced to you when I began visiting a small church plant, called Peachtree Community Church in Villa Rica, GA. The pastor's wife came up to me one Sunday and shared openly about how to truly walk with Christ. She spoke about accountability, truth, the Word, and even music. She handed me your CD, and told me the importance of surrounding yourself with the Lord. "Awakening" was on this CD, and as I let the words seep into my soul, it became apparent to me, that I had developed a false representation of Christ. "Awakening" was indeed an awakening. Never in my 29 years of life, have I had a song impact me so prevolent than yours. My journey, (like many) is complex, and I have a testimony that could probably take up this entire guest book. But I wanted to thank the person who's songs and music impact my life on a daily basis, and that what you do matters. I pray that one day, I will be able to see you perform in person. So if you ever head to Georgia, I will be there. God bless, and please continue to share his message as you have so brillantly done... In Christ, Candace

Michele December 14, 2009 • 10:29 PM

Hi Sara, Just saw you perform at the Cup in GB, WI. You and the group were great! I didn't get a chance to talk to your husband about your mission trip in March. Any way that you or someone might send me some info? When in March are you going? How much does it cost to go? How long are you there? I am very interested and would like to speak with one of you if possible. Please email me and maybe we could speak soon. Michele

Lisa Smith December 14, 2009 • 07:36 PM

Sara et al., My husband and I attended your concert in Des Moines last week. Wow. What a blessing to see and hear you in person! Your music has been an integral part of our marriage, our relationships with God and a new journey in our life. My husband, Rob, recently answered a call to attend seminary. We have become a one income family as he attends school full time. This has been a huge challenge for our family. Rob is away 3 days out of the week and I am a single parent to our boys (8 and 5). Your music has given us strength and encouragement over the last few months. You seem to have written songs with messages just for us :) I often find myself in tears driving to work as I listen to lyrics that really hit home for the moment. Thank you for all you do and for your love of God and our neighbor. Please keep writing and singing. Blessings, Lisa Smith Williamsburg, IA

jacque lother December 14, 2009 • 06:57 PM

We so appreciate your music. Your new Christmas album is great and we would like to use two of the songs for our Christmas Dinner Theatre at Hope Community Church in Corcoran, MN. We have been looking on line for a chord chart for "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear", but cannot find anything. Would it be possible to purchase a download of the chart? The other song we would appreciate purchasing is "To Be With You". Of course we need this asap! Thanks for considering this request. God bless your awesome ministry!!!!!!

Mary Luebke December 13, 2009 • 07:52 PM

Sara, I first heard of you and your music at the Hearts at Home conference in Rochester MN 2006 or 07?. The Friday night Moms Night Out concert had me singing and crying and spiritually enriched. I couldn't wait to hear you again the next day. My favorite song of all time is You are the Sun. It made me realize as a photographer that I am inspired not only by God's beautiful sunlight but more importantly by His LIGHT! I turn to your music to be inspired and bring or keep a good mood. My 7yr old daughter and 4 yr old son love your music also. It's wonderful to listen to something we all enjoy in the car. I am wishing I still lived in Eagan so I could know you as a Mom friend and gab endlessly about God and Kids. Thank you for the great music and may God continue to bless your career! Mary

Mark Levandowski December 13, 2009 • 01:16 PM

48 hours prior to the Green Bay show I had no knowledge of you or your music. Thanks to the movie" The Ultimate Gift" and the closing song "Somethings Changed" with the help of my computer and Google, I sat 20 feet away from possibly as close to an angel as one can get. Your voice and talent is an inspiration to all who care to listen.I do hope one day to meet you and inspire you with a different incredible story that has nothing to do with Religion and has everything to do with being where you are at any given time.

Scott Tomashek December 12, 2009 • 06:42 PM

Thank you for your concert in Green Bay last night. My wife and I got out for our first date in four months. It was great to spend it at the cup and hear you (and the band) share your music. Especially for sharing stories and videos of your family, which is pretty rare for performers. With four kids at home, we could really relate to the song "Setting Up the Pins". Thank you also for sharing the stage with Melody Olson. The first time I saw you in concert, you were with Micahel Card performing at our church. It struck me that you've taken that opportunity and now passed it on to another person. Very cool.

Sara December 12, 2009 • 02:03 AM

Hi Sara, I really appreciate your music. I have recently listened to more of you songs after I looked up Something Changed from "The Ultimate Gift." It has really touched me. I have been going through a lot of changes in my life in the past few years, and your music is so reassuring. Thank-you. Sara

sudeep December 11, 2009 • 11:33 PM

Hi sara, I love you. I truly love you. Your songs from conversations have helped me a lot in my own spiritual battles. Many times I broke into tears worshiping the lord. This is from when I was in 11th grade. I was struggling with a defeat which was the dream of my life. When my world is shattered the holy spirit comforted my soul through those wonderful, deep, meaningful, soulful songs. Sara you dont know how much I love that album. And when I was doing my engg at college, the only thing that spoke to my hindu room mate is your music album, not my preaching nor taking him to church. I might not be able to meet you personally here and embrace you and break down in tears in gratitude but one day in heaven I will see you, and I will come running to you and say thank you!! Thank you my sister... I love you!!! I will be praying for your ministry!!

Kristy December 11, 2009 • 09:23 PM

Hi Sara, I was at your concert in Des Moines. Thank you so much for braving the storm and roads to make it. It was so refreshing to hear your music and stories. I have always felt like your lyrics described so many of the things I was experiencing and feeling but couldn't describe. Your music has meant so much to me for years. Please come back soon!

Tiffany December 11, 2009 • 03:25 PM

Hi Sara! I love you and your family because of your gifts!! I cannot find your version of "Breath of Heaven". Please have someone let me know how to get/find it...Thanks!

Linz December 11, 2009 • 09:56 AM

Dear Sara, I saw your concert in Des Moines last night. I was going to stay late to meet you, but due to the weather had to see to it that a friend got home safely. I won't bore you with my long story and as it sounds you don't see these much anyway, but I got back from a year ago from Baghdad where I was a medic. It's a long story what happened and one that shouldn't be posted here. I used to listen to your music on my iPod to drown out the mortar fire I fell asleep to every night. I'll just say that your concert last night profoundly stilled my soul, and the reminders of all the little truths in your songs made every part of me breathe deeply and know that I'm going to make it. Perspective. That's what I drew from the moments you shared last night. Yes, I need to put all the tough moments into perspective and trust the faithful hand that brings them. He is faithful to complete what he already started. I wonder if anyone has said it yet of you, Sara- but it's true even though I know nothing of you personally: "you made it half as hard and twice as good".

Jacob Gardner December 11, 2009 • 07:28 AM

My wife and I were blessed enough to see you in Des Moines last night. I'm sure you've heard it before, but God has richly blessed us through you. My wife said your passion is infectious. We feel lead to use our gift of music at the local care center this Christmas. Thank you Sara, stay encouraged as you have encouraged us. The Gardners

Ian Reid December 10, 2009 • 08:03 PM

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Angie December 10, 2009 • 07:43 PM

Sara, Hello from a fellow Minnesotan and teacher. I love your song Setting up pins! It's so incredibly true of life for everyone! You are an amazing artist, I enjoy all of your music! Keep up the great work! Thank you!!

Hannah December 10, 2009 • 04:01 PM

Sara, your music has moved me in a huge way. I just recently called off a wedding and ended a relationship that was so good and so wrong, it was the hardest thing i've done and this is the hardest pain i've felt, but there are so many of your songs that speak the truth about how i feel and encourage me to remember that God is always faithful. Thank you for your ministry!

jenna December 10, 2009 • 01:59 PM

Hi Sara, I'm not sure if you received the first note, but somehow I think it sent before I was ready...so sorry to repeat... I had a wonderful time at your concert on Tuesday. My husband surprised me. I didn't know we were going to your concert until we pulled in the parking lot. My heart has been inspired and challenged by your songs and words. We forgot to sign the email list in the lobby. We would love a copy of some of the music on your tour. I don't know if that is possible, but we'd be so grateful to be added to the list. Thanks!

Carol December 09, 2009 • 06:49 PM

We were so blessed by your concert in Hershey. I felt like This House could have been written for me. I was able to go through the old farmhouse & barn that I grew up in with my parents. It was very therapeutic & great to see a happy young family there even if my old bedroom was now a hunting showcase! I also have a Charlie Brown Christmas Tree on disply at my library circ desk. Loved the setting up the pins song & acoustic set. Thanks, Carol

Anna Marie December 09, 2009 • 04:06 PM

Hi Sara, your lyrics have been like a soundtrack to my walk and God has used them in so many ways I can not begin to start to explain. When are you coming to play in the UK? We would love to welcome you here sometime soon. : ) With love to you all and many thanks to God for the impact your ministry has on my life, my 2 daughters' lives and then the overspill onto others' too. We love you sister. x AM

Troy Whitman December 09, 2009 • 03:44 PM

Sarah, I really enjoyed your concert in Hershey, Pa. Thank you for coming. I would have gotten something from your table, but I couldn't afford anything due to lack of money. I'm disabled and get a Social Security check monthy, but most of my money helps my Stepfather keep out house bills paid since my Mother died in March of this year. I loved your music and Melody's. Feel free to email me anytime ok. Thanks! reigninson@hotmail.com

Angela Biggs December 09, 2009 • 09:39 AM

I've been listening to your music for years, but my husband surprised me with tickets for my first chance to see you live just this last weekend (Manchester, NH). Thank you so much for a great show! I was sad that the audience didn't seem very live (from where I was sitting anyway), but please know that at least one person in the crowd was participating and really delighted to be there! I picked up a couple of CDs on my way in, and spent the next day listening to Fireflies and Songs. That night, after a perfect evening at the concert just the night before, my husband and I had one of "those" fights. I walked into his office and just said "track 5". He came upstairs 20 minutes later. "That wasn't fair." "It took you twenty minutes to listen to one song?" "Three times." I really enjoy your music. Please keep it up! God bless.

Volker Zipprick December 09, 2009 • 09:11 AM

I knew it... I just knew it...I knew that when I brought my wife and younger daughters to your concert last night in Hershey, that we would be with a group of folks (your family/band) who were genuine believers in Jesus. Not only was the music a testimony to God's gift within you all, the way you handled that gift was a greater testimony to GOD within you all. Thanks for making sure that He got the glory. Thanks for deflecting attention from yourselves (although by the world's standards, you certainly "deserve" some attention) to your family, the brother from prison, the people in Rwanda. Karen, my wife, and I are very grateful to the Lord for fellow brothers and sisters such as yourselves with whom we can share the road together down here. Looking forward to singing together in heaven one day. Praying for you all...Volker Zipprick

Elizabeth December 09, 2009 • 07:29 AM

Hi Sara- I enjoy your music and love your interest in Rwanda. My family is currently seeking to adopt two children from Rwanda. This may be a very bold question but I thought it wouldn't hurt to ask (at worst I won't get a reply or the answer will be no and that is ok).... We are trying to raise money for our adoption and wondered if there was any way to purchase your most recent cd in bulk (maybe 100)and then re-sell them to friends and family to raise money for our adoption? We re trying to be really creative here. I could not find any other way to contact you or your manager. Thanks for your consideration!

G December 09, 2009 • 05:57 AM

Thanks so much for coming to Hershey last night. Our two hour drive became three hours going home through the snow, but it was well worth it. My older kids and my Dad and I came, and it was a trip we were really needing during this difficult time. My wife is in a rehab for a month--coming home just before Christmas is the hope and plan. She's actually a new huge fan, so I got your set (thanks for making it available as a set) with Melody's cd, too, for her for Christmas. I also left our children's cd for your children for them (and you and Troy) at your merch table. So, I hope you'll share the cd with your kids and that it'll be a blessing. It's our first and only cd, a bit rough, but we've had a tremendous response from kids around your kids' ages. It's amazing what our God can already do even in spite of addiction and codependency, and I can't wait to see what he does through a new season of recovering. Know that God has used your music in calling my wife into this recovering. I think it was I Just Woke Up To My Own Life (but definitely one of your songs--I'll have to ask) that God put on the playlist with 2 other songs one day that knocked her to the core... If Kirby (sp?) mentioned a boy at the concert who looked like him that he saw at intermission, it was probably my eldest (8-year old)--I was pretty surprised at their resemblence--and my son remarked about seeing him at intermission.

Rebecca Saylor December 08, 2009 • 09:22 PM

Thanks so much for coming to Hershey PA tonight!!! So many things at the concert touched my heart, can't list them all. Will convey two, that might belss your heart. One, I never heard of you until ssummer 2007 when I was making a disc of original music for a family gift, and my guitar/sound tech kept telling my songs were like yours...the day sent off my copyright application,and was cutting covers and stuffing inserts to my gifts,I got my hands on a copy of past the wishing...and instead of "Cd packging" at the kitchen table I lay down on my kitchen floor and just listened, a few times through the whole Cd ans said, "God can I talk to her?" And next time i went to cut and pack...you and Troy were on that family life program, talking about the things I would have liked to asked you... that same family life program the gentleman from Chicago referred to in the ph interview tonight...tried then to write in your guestbook but it got lost on space.Also, Tongight at intermission,my sound tech's wife was urging me to commit to a coffeehouse SOON...and then you had that little tear up about those early days...it meant alot to me, and spoke to my nearest and dearest about how it is not as easy to share for some of us,as it is to write... Thanks for being real and just who God made you, He is using your serve mightily...

Keith Stovall December 08, 2009 • 08:49 AM

Hello Sarah, I was just listening to one of your older songs on Pandora (I just woke up to my own life). I laughed because I don't know that I have identified with a song so much in a VERY LONG TIME. Great song. Thanks. Keith Stovall Brookhaven, MS

Amy December 08, 2009 • 08:39 AM

Hey! I just wanted to say thank you for your honesty. The most standout characteristic about your music, to me, is the honesty evident in all of your songs. It is inspiring. I have also thankfully been able to listen to your music during many a challenging time and over and over have felt encouragement and peace. I hope all is well for you and I will be praying for you and your family.

Dede December 07, 2009 • 06:05 PM

Sara, I have to admit I only heard a few of your songs on WHCF here in Bangor, Maine and I thought, "Geez, Nana would love her music." I bought tickets to bring my 90 year old grandmother and my sister. Unfortunately, my grandmother was too ill to attend (I gave my ticket to an unsuspecting couple who also received another ticket from another attendee)but my sister and I attended. You are awesome! I am so impressed with your whole show. My sister, recently lost her vision in the last year at age 41 and she loved the show-- she even felt like your use of video added to the show. I bought your CD's and I hope to send some to my cousin in Hugo, MN. I hope that your music will inspire here to seek out the Lord. You, Melody, Troy and the guys just made my holiday season--I can't wait to read your blog and maybe someday join your trip to Rwanda. You are truly a blessing from God!( I have played your "Toy Packagins" song for my 4 year old -- he loves it!)

monica December 07, 2009 • 10:33 AM

Thank-you for an amazing evening in Manchester NH last night - we just loved the whole night god bless!

Angela Feirick December 07, 2009 • 04:11 AM

Awesome!!!! We went to see Sara at Manchester Christian Church in Manchester, NH it was an awesome experience and such a blessing. I'm headed to Rwanda in Aug. of 2010 and it was great to see what was happening in that village....the tears.... and more tears.... I felt so honored that God chose me to go and serve there....and somehow it feels like I already know them. It feels like home :) Thank you everyone for a wonderful blessing last night. ( 12/6) Peace, Angela

DaveNH December 06, 2009 • 08:20 PM

Thank you for a wonderful, intimate evening with you, your family, and your band members this evening in Manchester New Hampshire. We arrived early enough to get our pick of seats and thoroughly enjoyed the music and life you shared with us. Your songs and music always touch me in new ways each time I hear and even more when I listen with God's ears. I brought home your new album with me and am listening to it now. I know I'll soon experience another journey through my heart. May you always find His light in your family and in your songs. - .dave. PS - Please tell the gentleman that mixed sound for you this evening that I was ultimately blessed by the best mix I've heard to date. The music was deep, rich, and well balanced - not too loud; many thanks!

Abby December 06, 2009 • 02:27 PM

Hi Sara,

Abby December 06, 2009 • 02:27 PM

Hi Sara,

Diana Caldwell December 06, 2009 • 06:40 AM

God Bless You, Sara & family. It was such a blessing to see you live in Bangor, Maine last nite, Dec. 5th. The snow began to fall just as we headed to see you at the church. The whole concert was moving; one could feel the presence of God. I was particularly touched by "This House." I'd just written a poem about my childhood house, now abandoned, was for sale, bought by people out of state. I'm sure they'll tear it down. I forgave the house of shame. I embraced the good memories there. It's no accident you wrote the song about your home & that I was to hear it. There's much sorrow & healing yet to happen. Embracing the pain, surrendering. Thank you, you're awesome in all that you do.

Helge December 06, 2009 • 12:58 AM

Thanks for yet another brilliant record. I have all of you cd's. They are the cornerstone of fine, good, deep thinking, helping through life, songs!!! The lord is really blessing us all, with the blessing he has given U. You are such a great songwriter/musician/artist ... and person, looking at your lyrics and hearing all you stories behind, you are so open and honest about you and Troy and friends. A truly true person. Awesome. 2 questions: 1, when will you be touring europe. Please come to Norway! and 2, "Flood", what a brilliant song (from the exclusives), where is the lyrics? This is really a great song! Thanks.

a husband December 05, 2009 • 08:36 AM

Me again. I got my fixed autograph from Sara in the mail and was once again thrilled that so many people would take the time to address what is really an insignificant issue in Gods grand plan. Your dedication has already inspired the folks I've shared the story with, and I look forward to sharing it more when it won't ruin the surprise. Many thanks and Merry Christmas to you all!

Kim December 04, 2009 • 09:18 PM

You are AWESOME!!!!! I was very moved by the show tonight~~I went there cause a friend asked me to go, I never thought that I would come out of there so touched, and blessed for all that I have!Thank You and your family and Band Members for making it a special night for me

Chrissie December 04, 2009 • 07:01 PM

Sara - Thank you for your NJ concert last night! Your reflections -- like your favorite line in "Oh Holy Night" -- were dearly put and revealed a contagious delight in the Lord. The evening was a great encouragement. I was particularly convicted by the portion of the evening where you focused on your travels and work in Rwanda. I studied Kinyarwanda and lived in Kigali for a semester in college before becoming a believer -- your concert gave a fresh lens for my experiences. I love how you have a vision for a concentrated impact in one village. I am interested in learning more about sponsoring a child but did not sign up at the concert. How can I sign up to support a child in Gisanga? Many blessings to you and your family!

Laura Wise December 04, 2009 • 01:44 PM

Hi! I purchased the pre-sale package (the one with the coffee, etc.) on November 4, and still have not received the package. I'm not sure how long it takes to ship things, depending on location of where it is being shipped, but I was just getting kind of worried since it's been a month. Could you possibly tell me if you have already shipped it, so I'll know when to expect it? I wanted to inform you in case you had already shipped it, so that you'd know that I hadn't received it. Thank you, Laura P.S. I don't have my shipping number on me at the moment.

naomi December 03, 2009 • 11:47 AM

I am a new listener of your music and do really enjoy. Was really wanting the sheet music to Toy Packaging and Cradle in Bethlehem. Are these printed? If not, is this printing in the works for the near future? Best of blessings and have a wonderful Christmas Season

Jeanmarie Joswick December 02, 2009 • 10:26 PM

Dear Sara, I don't have children.-I'm just saying, because that not only changes a marriage, but a lot of mom time would be devoted to your children. In light of that I am in a struggling marriage & the songs you write-my personal favorite-"When It Was Over"-feel like they are your expr. too. Please don't ever stop. Obivously this is one special God given talent that you are blessed with. You make me feel so good when I can sing along with your CD's. I feel like your a really good girl friend that I can have a Starbucks with & a good "chin wag". Your friend, Jeanmarie Joswick

Andrea Schultz December 02, 2009 • 05:37 PM

Sara - I was one of the three winners of your newest CD, "Fireflies and Songs" through Margaret Feinberg's website - exciting! It arrived in the mail today. I was pleasantly surprised to see you signed it with my name - even more special! I appreciate the gift God gave you,and am glad you use it for His glory! Blessings to you and yours this Christmas season and into 2010! Thanks - Andrea Schultz

Mary Ellen Geeslin December 02, 2009 • 03:26 PM

Hello Sarah!My husband and I pastor a church in Maryland. Six yrs, ago I randomly out headphones on in a boostore and listend to one of your CD's. It was so healingas in ministry we've been thru a lot of "goodbyes" as good church people leave for one reason or another. Your lyrics are so deep and so touching. A good friend and I will be going to the PA concert next Tuesday. My friend Lisa and I were there last yr. too. In July, Lisa's 42 yr.old husband was killed in a helicopter crash. Anguish for her, her 2 kids and also close friends. I feel like a silly "groupy" but is there any way that you could meet with us for payer for even 5 minutes? I understand the "pulls" of ministry and pls. forgive me of I seem so forward~ I just thought a hug and a prayer from you would be so healing for Lisa~ Your new CD is amazing~ how grateful I am for your music and heartfelt love for precious JESUS! I love you dear Sarah and I love your passiob for Justice!

Larry Sherman December 02, 2009 • 08:35 AM

I thank my Lord for what he is doing through you. It's such a blessing to know you have family backing you on your journey. Jesus, by your side and all around you. Merry Christmas to you, your husband and children. Larry & Lydia Sioux Lookout Ontario, Canada

Chris Wertz December 01, 2009 • 07:01 PM

Sara, I don't know when you will get this or if you will. I know you are very busy with your tour now. I wish I could come see you in Ia but it looks like I wont be able to. It upsets me that I can't. I know you have asked about me and I wish I could have just a few minutes out of the day to speak to you and let you know I am doing good. I am a soldier and have been now for 16yrs in service. I had a couple of breaks in service due to breaking my arm and after I returned from the Middle East for the second time i got a devorice after 13 yrs of being marrige. I have been in Law Enforcement now for 9 yrs and am a superviser now with the Randolph County Sheriff's Office in Huntsville Mo. I have a lot of life experiance in life and had learned alot from high school and growing up in the military. I love my life and my job's. I really feel I am doing what god has put in my heart to do, to help people, and this is how I do it. Sara its what I am good at. I am proud of how well you have done in your life and proud to be able to call you my friend. I have missed you these past years ans wish there was a way to see you again even just for minute. I am with a wonderful woman now and am engaged and hope to marry her soon. She is awsome Sara, I think you would like her. She makes me feel alive like never before. She has had hard times like I have in life but have battled through them and it feels great with her. I really hope you get to read this and maybe we can see each other or at least talk on the phone. My number is 660-651-3869, its my personal cell please keep it call me whenever. I am not currenly due to go back overseas yet but as a Military Police Officer that can change anytime. I have also applied for CID, Criminal Investigations Division, in the Army. We have a guard unit in Fulton Mo. My background investigation has started so if all goes good and I get in my chances for deployment will increase. I hope to hear from you. It will mean alot to me. I would love to be able to see you that would be even better, but I know you are on tour and its close to the holidays. E-mail me if you would like ctw560@yahoo.com. If you are ever near Huntsville Mo. call or drop in I will drop everthing to see you. I ll buy lunch. LOL! Again I have missed you and think about you alot and have for a long time. Hope to hear from you. Always Your Friend, Chris

Beth December 01, 2009 • 06:32 PM

After being a pastor's wife for 26 years and married for almost 30, my husband left me and my 9 year old daughter. Very alone and heartbroken, I constantly reminded myself that God is faithful and will see me through this. Your song "He's Always Been Faithful" is one I listen to everyday, sometimes over and over. It is my reminder that God is very near and cares about what I am going through. Thank you for a wonderful song about God's faithfulness to us especially in times of great need and pain.

Kim December 01, 2009 • 02:44 PM

I want to thank you for blessing me with your spiritual, uplifting , and comforting music.A few years ago I was in a bad space. A friend of mine gave me your CD. I have since purchased an earlier CD and plan on buying more. Thank you. You have a gift from God. God Bless you & yours, Kim

Sue December 01, 2009 • 09:33 AM

Sara, "Processing life." It wasn't so hard to do when life was predictable and I was in control, a supermom in my own realm. The Spirit of Christ lay hard on my heart though to want to know Christ, and see Him as the surpassing treasure, counting everything else as loss. Something beyond a life that looked right and made everyone happy. That prayer spawned a season of growth and change provoked by a disease process that is slowly eroding my health - no more supermom, just a person having to confront finally who I really am and move the focus from doing to being. Because I can't "do" anymore. Circumstances that I hate, but I love the pull to Christ. I first heard your music about the time the physical realities were hitting and life was changing; your songs have been with me all along this journey and oftentimes were my prayers as I sang along, or just cried or worshipped. Even in the really dark times, there is some truth that meets me in the most vulnerable places and strengthens, reminds me that there is always hope. My husband just gave me "Fireflies" for an anniversary present (27 yrs). Your gift for marrying realities with redeeming hope exhorts and encourages the body, and I am really thankful that your music intersects my life. I love to read, my family does also; your music notes have prompted me to check out stuff from the library and eventually add to ours. I look forward to conversatons when we eventually connect on a new earth. Take good care of your heart. I would only tell you that I am praying for you if I am. I am. May God richly bless and keep you.

Don Lohr December 01, 2009 • 08:08 AM

Sara, I wanted you to know that you have been such a big impact in my wife's life. You have helped her through some difficult times(the tragic loss of her Mother, etc). Your music has encouraged and inspired her. We first heard/saw you in concert many years ago, here in St augustine, FL. Ever since, she/we have been hug fans. So much that my wife's birthday is Sunday, Dec. 6th. so, when I saw that you were doing the Christmas concert in Hershey PA on Dec 8th, I am surprising her and we are flying from FL to Hershey, just to see you in concert!! She will be very excited. I hope we can see and chat with you for a second, after the concert. Thank you Sara! You rock our socks!!!

Laura Smith November 30, 2009 • 08:09 PM

Hi Sara, I happened to hear "Loving A Person" on Pandora (I believe it was Regina Spektor station :) at just the most perfect moment for it in my life. I went on to explore much more of your music. Thank you for your beautiful songs, and also for your work in the world. You are inspiring to me! Love, Laura Austin, TX

Jen November 30, 2009 • 06:42 PM

13 years...no kids...another miscarriage...marriage in distress...and then, like a shaft of light, God uses the songs he gave to you, that you shared with all of us, to start the healing. Thank you.

Jess Harvey November 30, 2009 • 02:38 PM

Sara, Wow. Your music always seems to reach down somewhere deep inside of me and plant little seeds of joy that spring up when I least expect them. I'm listening to your new album on Relevant magazine's website. Can't wait to buy it. It's so beautiful. Thank you for doing this! Love Jess xx P.S. I got married in July and we had your 'Loving a Person' playing as we signed the register. One of my favourite songs of yours!

Rob King November 30, 2009 • 01:58 PM

We had Sara at our church youth group back when she first started and her first album was out. We were at a church in urbana Illinois and I think she was able to swing through for a few hundred bucks on her way to Chicago. This was a really big deal to us. We played her music as our retreat theme song. She was gracious and kind and humble in her singing for us and the Lord was with us. I am now in Texas at a large church and still doing youth ministry with great joy and purpose. Anyway, today while in prayer the Lord brought to mind "the word was and the word is and the word will be". I felt prompted by the lord to purchase the album. I also felt lead to pray for your ministry. So i did. Here is what the Lord had me pray: ephesians 3:16-2116I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. 20Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. Your ministry lives on and on and on!!! KEEP GOING!!! GO GO Go In Jesus name GO!! Love you all.....rob

Tom Sprague November 29, 2009 • 04:44 AM

Sara, you are going to do a concert in Bangor Maine at christmas. When the tickets are sold out, why not have 88.5 broadcast it live to all those that are shut-in--in hospitals and homes. What a great way to give back to those that have given so much. I would hope that 88.5 would be willing to do that.

Daniel James Bastek November 28, 2009 • 04:25 PM

IM A WITNESS OF TWO THINGS.OF THE UNEXPLAINABLE AND GOOD I DONT TRY TO EXPLAIN AND WONT ALL ICAN SAY IS WOW ONE WAS YESTERDAY ANOTHER A WHILE BACK,IM MORE LESS SPIRITUAL NICE SITE.

Ali November 26, 2009 • 07:51 PM

There is a poem I have been able to recite since I was a teenager, called 'The Darkling Thrush' by Thomas Hardy. (I don't think it will let me put the weblink in but you can read it poets.org.) The first time I heard your song 'From this one place', I was instantly reminded of that poem. Thanks for singing it!

Felipe Aguiar November 26, 2009 • 11:50 AM

Sara. You inspire me at every album. And Fireflies is is a special one... It's so personal, and at the same time so communicative to me... How can you speak so properly of things that were so intimate to me as it was me singing? Amazing how God can inspire you to inspire our lives. Thank you for your voice and your songs. God bless you

Adejoh Solomon November 26, 2009 • 02:42 AM

Hi Sara, u are a vessel which God is using 2 bless me. Thank u. Nigeria..

mike johnson November 26, 2009 • 01:57 AM

Thank you

Gabriel Mranda November 26, 2009 • 01:43 AM

I love your songs very inspiring to the soul, reveals the true love that exists for eternity and that is God almighty. What you sing is a miracle.

Greg Howe November 21, 2009 • 06:53 PM

I have been a Christian for nine years now, and it is amazing I didn't know your work until less than a month ago when a friend told me I had to hear your music and words. (I think God was purposely keeping your stuff from me until now, when I really need it) I'm a dad with a loving wife and four kids from 13 down to almost a year. And this last year has been a struggle: my wife almost dying of a rare, pregnancy-related heart attack, her brother dying of cancer, a new house, the new baby, job stress, loss of some income, health issues in a couple of the children...and my slipping away from Jesus time and time again. Christian music felt hollow most of the time, and I found myself falling into what I can't have, what I can't do. My wife was unsupportive and I was at a personal, career and spiritual crossroads. Then I heard "When It Was Over" and I just cried. And I heard more by you and thought FINALLY, someone who is REAL! You sang my thoughts. Thank you for being true to you and true to your obvious calling from God. Your "I'm gonna do it anyway" mentality has inspired me to continue my paths from God though the fruit seems a ways off. Your openness about marriage struggle helps me stay in mine and fight for it, as a choice not a feeling. I live in Bangor, ME a mile or so down the street from where you'll be on Dec. 5. Not sure I can make the show but I hope you enjoy the trip and God blesses the show. Thanks for coming so far north (and even farther). God bless you...

Christy November 20, 2009 • 06:59 PM

I'm a long time fan and wish I had a chance to hear more at the Insight for Living night in Toronto. Your music moves with me through the stages of life, as I too am and almost 40 mother of 2 boys aged 7 and 9. Please come to Ontario!

Helen Martin November 20, 2009 • 03:42 PM

Cool new look! I got my special super duper cool bonus package the other day... I fancy myself as the only Helen you know and that you wrote that "personalization" knowing it was me..... ;-) Enjoying the stories behind the music. I can't get enough of your lovely heart. xo, H.

kay November 20, 2009 • 08:57 AM

Hi Sara, I just wanted to share how your song "It might be hope" touched me. I hadn't really listened to your music until my BFF told me about the song "I saw what I saw." I cried and cried as I listened to it. Our local Crisis Pregnancy Center used the song in a slideshow of mothers, babies, and adoption stories at one of their banquets. It was amazing. There was a family in our church who had been wanting to adopt for years. Adoption after adoption fell through and it was soo sad. FINALLY, last September, that got a sweet, little baby boy. Hope was real. A day before his first birthday this year, I discovered "It might be hope" I had been thinking about him all day and when I found that song(on my bff's ipod) I just BAWLED my eyes out!! The words were sooo perfect for the bliss I was experiencing from the hope I had received a year ago. God is so good!! Keep up the amazing work!!

Burt Wizeman November 19, 2009 • 06:29 PM

Wow. What a great album you have put together with Fireflies and Songs. My 7 year old daughter enjoyed Setting Up The Pins so much that I played it today for the 3rd Grade class I teach. They loved it as well and I will most likely tire of it long before I have played it for the umteenth time. It is not a metric from the big guns like ASCAP or Arbitron but that song is on heavy rotation in the 3rd Grade class at Calvary Chapel School in Sarasota! Sara, my wife Nancy and I are softly stunned at the precision and depth you have written with on this release. We have lived some of it. Thanks again for blessing my family with your music and I thank your family for letting you do the work you do to bless mine and so many others. Thank you and God Bless you and the gang. Burt Wizeman

a husband November 19, 2009 • 10:34 AM

I'm the one who commented below about the mixed up name in the autograph for the pre-order special. I just wanted to report back and publicly thank Wendy at INO Records for getting back to me. Thanks as well to those behind the scenes here who got my message and did something with it. Thanks also to Sara for taking the time to sign one more time. All your efforts are appreciated!

Carol Lawrence November 19, 2009 • 09:54 AM

Sorry for the double post. fast fingers, I guess ;) Thank you so much for your music. It has helped me in ways I know you will never really understand. I admit that I took out a cd from the library and popped it into my computer without thinking much about it only to realize that that is indeed stealing. I apologize to you. I hope it's ok that I sent a donation to Food for the Hungry to try and make up for my mistake. You and your family are an inspiration to me and I applaud your dedication to those less fortunate. :)

Jenny November 18, 2009 • 06:26 PM

Dear Sara, You are such a gifted musician and an inspiration to listen to. Your music is real and raw and beautiful at the same time. So many songs have gotten me through difficult times. I listened to "The Other Side of Something", "Less Like Scars", and "It's Going to be Alright" endlessly a few years ago during a bad break-up. During my years of teaching I have always clung to "Love is Still a Worthy Cause" on those days where I feel like throwing in the towel. I am thinking about getting some of the lyrics from "Add to the Beauty" as a tattoo because they are truly words to live by. During my engagement and now that I'm married I think a lot about the relationship advice from songs like "Roll to the Middle" and "When it was over." In short, there isn't really an area of my life that your songs haven't touched and enriched. I love the simplicity and humility you display in your songs; they are simple but also profound. I haven't gotten your newest album yet but Christmas is coming...and speaking of wishes, I very much hope that you make it out to the Pacific Northwest and play a concert in Portland, Oregon. I would LOVE to come see you in concert again. Thank you for your life's work and be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power.

Jen November 18, 2009 • 02:55 PM

Thanks so much for being real. Your song writing comes straight from the heart and is so down to earth. I appreciate the honesty in your voice when you sing these life lessons to my heart. It is so nice to hear someone in christian music who is not reaching for the rafter high notes. Hooray for the women with lower voices! "Fireflies and Songs" is awesome and once again you prove your music timeless. I have every album and piano book you have ever released and this is the best of them all! God bless you!

becks November 18, 2009 • 12:57 PM

please please please could Sara come to the UK? if there are no plans to, then could we look at booking some dates in?! how much would it cost to book sara to play over here???!!! thanks. Becks.

Kristin Baltes November 18, 2009 • 06:39 AM

Thank you for this wonderful album "Fireflies and Songs"...and for the song stories, the coffee, and my great mug! Your lyrics have always spoken so deeply to me and rings so true in "Different Kinds of Happy" and "Like a Lake". Thank you for continuing to write songs for us to learn from. You sing the truth and you do it with such beauty. Thank you. I have to go fold the laundry now....

J Workman November 18, 2009 • 01:35 AM

Of all the varied music that I listen to, there are only two singer-songwriters that I feel actually "know me" and reflect the same struggles/doubts/hopes/fears/victories in their songs that I feel inside: one is Bill Mallonee and the other is Sara Groves. I love your work and look forward to listening for hopefully many more years to come.

David November 17, 2009 • 06:28 PM

I was reading your interview in CT Music, where you said: "Charlie [Peacock] has helped me this year by saying, "You're a life-timer. You're a lifetime artist.'" He's right. You have the gift. Don't ever forget that. Thank you for the new album. It's wonderful.

Megan November 17, 2009 • 05:32 PM

Hi, your lyrics speak to me like no other artist. Thank you so much for helping me through my emotional times and for helping me to connect to God better. Please Please Please come to Virginia!

a husband November 17, 2009 • 04:03 PM

My wife and I have been a fan since we discovered your music. We own all your CDs and have traveled to see you live (and to support Blood:Water Baltimore as a bonus). When I saw the recent special offer/pre-order I knew I had a winner of a Christmas gift. However, after carefully filling out the request (and having this specific problem in mind) the autograph came addressed to me, rather than my lovely bride. I'm not sure if I have any recourse at this point, but perhaps someone in the know can contact me (via the "will not be displayed" email perhaps) and let me know. If not, we'll at least get to continue to enjoy the music and ministry of Sara Groves. Many thanks!

laura.frances wise November 17, 2009 • 03:24 PM

Sara, i really like your rendition of "It Is Well." i love your gift of adding originality to something that is already original. i love the acoustic version of "When the Saints." i thrive on your acoustic versions, and feel like i've won a million dollars when i get hold of an acoustic version. i'm so blessed to know your music and gifts. God has used in my life more than i can explain. there is a song that identifies with my heart and life each moment of the day, week, and year. thanks for sharing and ministering. He pours out of your voice, heart, and songs. the Lord keep you.

Sarah Jane November 17, 2009 • 02:06 PM

Sara, I just sat down and started listening to Fireflies and Songs. It's wonderful. I know it will be the soundtrack for the coming days, weeks. All the best. Thank you for your great work!

carolyn November 17, 2009 • 01:36 PM

dear Sara how are you i hope you are well and im carolyn a cupl of years a go i gave you a boxwhith red writing on in. and when i saw you a year or soo later and you said your the girl who gave me the box whith my name on it well i really miss you and you proble dont even remamber me and proble dont care well i just whonted to say that maid my life when you reambered my name well i hope you get this and hope you still have the box bye carolyn and im hopeing i can see you sooooooooooooooo in MN bye love carolyn

Casey Jackson November 17, 2009 • 11:32 AM

I am a 23 year old HS student minister (via an English Ed degree... who knows how that happened) and have been known to listen to my Sara Groves MP3 CD for months at a time. For every marked event in my life, I have found Truth, rest, and understanding in your voice. You have become a dear support to me and I don't even know you. Though I've had amazing mentors, you were sometimes the only person that confirmed Truth in my life when I felt like I was the only one re-learning a new way of doing faith in Christ, the only one confessing hard things, learning how to love people (and myself) in Grace, and the only person honestly and sometimes brutally questioning purpose in life and Kingdom stuff, only to find the reality of who Christ is. This may be another of many notes, but you need to know that Christ has fleshed himself out in your music. With your honest look at our faith and how it touches life, you have affected my perspective on life, my relationships, and most deeply, my Spirit in such ways that have brought me life, hope, and truthfulness.

Sara Groves November 17, 2009 • 11:13 AM

Applause, applause to Keith Martinson for this great new redesign of the site! Thank you Keith for all of your hard work! It's a big day for all of us! (Why do I use so many exclamation marks?!!) All the Groves' love to the all of the Martinsons!!!!!

kuceli adetunji November 17, 2009 • 01:43 AM

this is to let you know that despite the different genres of music we have that may seem more upbeat and contemporary, your choice to remain yourself has encouraged more people cut across the nations than you may ever know. i guess that's the beauty of obedience. my brother must have known at some point i needed encouragement to be bold and be me when he gave me your music for a christmas present some years back. your songs and style have been encouraging. stay yielded in His hands and keep pouring out His essence through you. kuceli nigeria

Keith Martinson November 16, 2009 • 11:31 PM

Welcome to the new web site!

Karyn November 16, 2009 • 10:04 AM

Hi Sara ~ I heard "It Might Be Hope" on the radio a couple days ago following an interview you did over the phone (91.5 KTIG out of Pequot Lakes, MN) Sara, I couldn't wait to get home and download it to my Ipod from Itunes. This song moves my heart ~ it comes to me at a time in my life that I really need to hear these words, and I cling to them... (course I really need to stop crying while I listen to it ;) I've been searching for the beautiful piano sheet music and have been unsuccessful, which leads me to believe it is not published ~ ? Thank you for your blessing of song, from one Minnesota girl to another ;)

David November 14, 2009 • 10:46 PM

Sara & Troy, Thank you so much for your ministry. I first heard your music about a year ago on a Moody station near our home. Since that time, I have purchased all of your CD's (some multiple times) and given copies to a number of friends. Your music is such a great balance of heartfelt praise, thought provoking lyrics, elegant melodies, and love. I appreciate the transparency you portray in living through difficult times and the challenges we all face as believers. I pray that God will bless and keep you and your entire family and that He may continue to bless your ministry for years to come.

Tom Abernethy, Jr. November 14, 2009 • 09:57 PM

Sara, are you coming to Virginia again? The first time I heard you was at a Michael Card concert in Fredericksburg. Keep doing the good work.

the rennison family November 14, 2009 • 10:56 AM

we really enjoy the music you sing in our household.We are from england and so we never gat to see you peform.Maybe you could plan a tour around britian sometime, from the rennisons

Jeff and Jen Padgett November 13, 2009 • 05:30 PM

Pretty excited to see you on December 5, in Bangor, Maine, with Jeff and our three kids: Jake (10), Jonah (6), and Juliese (4). We just adopted Juliese last summer from China. Wish we could visit! God Bless you and your family during this holiday season! Hi, Pastor Colbaugh!

D Haynes November 13, 2009 • 07:13 AM

I just heard the new song Fireflies and heard the quick interview you gave on the Joy FM and it made me immediately think of Donald Miller's Book Searching for God Knows What. It really is true that we are a broken creation aching for the true communion and knowledge of God that is now veiled and when finally draw near to Him and experience His Truth it is like fireflies appearing in everything. Love it.

Chris Rising November 13, 2009 • 12:57 AM

Love the new album, "Fireflies and Songs". God Bless, Chris

Diana Glyer November 12, 2009 • 10:23 AM

Hi, Sara. A friend just sent me the link to "Hello, Lord," and I sat here in my office, rocked back, eyes closed, just letting that song minister to my heart. Thank you for expressing what my heart feels but doesn't know how to say. I'm so much more settled now in doing what I need to today. Your song is daily bread. with affection, Diana

Lisa November 11, 2009 • 10:10 PM

Sara, I've been blessed to experience a show of yours twice, and I'm so disappointed that I'll be singing in a show myself the night you're in Indianapolis. I'll miss out. But I've told a good friend about your music, and she'll catch you in Minnesota. So there's at least that. I'm a pastor and a social justice activist and a lover of God, and your music has been a hymnbook I have used to reflect theologically both privately and within the communities I have served. So thank you, thank you - and have a wonderful time when you visit my town. Every good wish . . . P.S. Have brunch at Patachou on the Park downtown before you move on. You won't regret it.

Heaven Glover November 07, 2009 • 11:22 AM

Hi Mrs. Groves. I don't know if you remeber Alissa Menchaca(now Alissa Glover) From Evangel College. She is my mom. You and she were in the education department together. She remebers you coming up to her and saying "Hi I'm Sara", and you sat down right next to her. She always says you were the sweetest girl. She also remebers you singing "The word" and a couple of other songs in chapel. who knew back then you would become such a wonderful singer/songwriter you are know. My whole family (2 parents and 8 kids) love your songs. We are very grateful for you :) Thank you

Heaven Glover November 07, 2009 • 11:22 AM

Victoria November 06, 2009 • 02:40 PM

I'm not going to lie. I have never really listened to your music, or been into spiritual music of any kind. But a woman at our church preformed your song "A Tent in the Center of Town" and I fell in love with it. It's still, to date, the only song I've heard of yours but it is a great story and I'm sure there's a great real story behind it. I'm writing a novel called "A Tent in the Center of Town" based off of your song. I just thought I would let you know that your music is doing a great job inspiring everyone, no matter how religious or not they are! And if you would like to read the work in process, feel free to contact me and I will willingly send it to you because I think you deserve to see what kind of work people are doing with your message!

Michelle November 06, 2009 • 09:25 AM

Sara, you have NO idea how your music has helped me survive that last 7 yrs........"conversations" helped get me though a painful divorce, and now I am remarried and my husband just got bought me your special on "fireflies" i cried all the way to work today........just amazing.thank you soooo much you are gifted and I am grateful.

laura wise November 04, 2009 • 06:38 PM

Sara, I just purchased your new album package...listening to the download now. I LOVE it!!! Can't wait for the other stuff to arrive! Thank you for sharing your gifts with us...we're listening...and so is HE!!! Laura

Crysta November 04, 2009 • 04:13 PM

Sara: I cannot tell you how much I love your music...the Lord has used it in my life in such a mighty way...I must say there have been so many times in listening to your songs that I felt you were reading my mind...the words and melody of your songs have become dear friends to me...thank you for sharing your soul, truly the Lord's words are fitly spoken through your life~

Tony November 03, 2009 • 01:42 PM

Really loving your new album "Fireflies and Songs!" It's completely lifting me up, as all your songs do. So grateful for your ministry.

Peter Handke November 03, 2009 • 10:02 AM

Hi Sara, Please sing Somethings Changed so I can open my heart and weep a little when you sing in Austin, MN. As I went to You Tube I enjoyed your songs from Rwanda. A friend Carl Wilkens is the only American to stay in Rwanda during the genocide and saved an orphanage among other deeds. His website www.worldoutsidemyshoes.org is deeply moving. You would enjoy it. See you in December! Peter Handke

Jeremiah Kunz November 02, 2009 • 06:33 PM

It's been some time. I had a copy of Add To The Beauty a long time ago but gave it away to a friend. Now I've got another copy and Tell Me What You know with Conversations both for the first time. Love Is Still A Worthy Cause is something else, and conversations along with Add To The Beauty brought me back and nudged some old memories i'd long since forgotten. I preordered Fireflies and Stories but I haven't listened to it quite yet as I've been getting acquainted with the other two albums! Thanks for being part of my media library and encouragement for some 5+ years, and I agree with Social Integrity for the record. I wonder what's going on half the time and more. Also, Thanks for making the music so active-minded. Continuing blessings to your families (why call it family and friends?)- Redevoted Appreciating Listener, Jeremiah Kunz

Paul Wilson (Scotland) November 02, 2009 • 07:34 AM

Hi There Love your music and looking forward to receiving your new album which I eventually managed to order on the website. One request will you ever consider coming to the UK especially Scotland it would be great to have you here. I am sure my own church would love to hear you live as too would others. Thanks Paul Wilson (Glasgow Scotland)

ENYIE PETER KERE November 01, 2009 • 01:25 PM

THANKS FOR YOUR DVD -NOMAD. AND CD - TELL ME WHAT YOU KNOW. I LIKE THE SONG - "SAY A PRAYER" I GOT YOUR DISKS AS A GIFT FROM THE QUESTION I ANSWERED CORRECTLY ON ONECUBED.COM. I AM PARTICULARY HAPPY ABOUT YOUR VISIT TO RWANDA. AND I HOPE YOU WILL VISIT OGONI- SOUTH NIGERIA WHERE SIMILAR EVEN OCCURRED. THANKS ENYIE PETER KERE +234 8030989490

Christy October 31, 2009 • 05:20 PM

OK, I figured out to buy the download you have to put a "1" in the box. Hey everyone, the music is nothing less than brilliant. Thanks Sara and band for sharing this music. I love music that I can identify to as truthful, and that challenges me to do what is right.

N8 Da Gr8 October 31, 2009 • 11:55 AM

Sara, I LOVE your Music it like reading your diary, Thank you for sharing your heart. The only critiizm I have is When you mix your albums is have the sound of turning pages because I'm sure of it sound like your reading you diary. In Christ LOVE N8dagr8

Christy October 31, 2009 • 09:41 AM

I am trying to buy the download package of her new album, is anyone else having a hard time getting this?

CMD October 31, 2009 • 08:25 AM

Do you have plans to perform in St. Louis, MO

Jim Beebe October 30, 2009 • 08:58 PM

I have been touched in my heart and soul as I have cried through your music during one of the saddest time in my life. Thank you for putting words to my emotions and spirit.

Susan October 30, 2009 • 05:04 PM

Sara, My husband and I just watched your Dvd nomad. In the dvd you told of your visit to rwanda and also to Louisianna...it is a story I think everyone should know...thank you so much for sharing it. I never knew you before, but now I feel like I know you. Thank you for telling people just to go and also that each of us has something to give to other people, whether it be going, giving, loving or praying...we all have a special gift from God to share with the world, one person at a time. God Bless you and your family, Love, Susan (wife and mother of 2 grown boys)

Sam Verdecchia October 29, 2009 • 08:48 PM

I remember years ago, I asked my wife to by me the CD All Right Here. She couldn't find it and bought Conversations. If there was ever music that spoke to me-as if God was talking to me-it was that CD. It was so soveriegnly beautiful and encouraging. It really helped give me confidence in doors obviously the Lord was opening for me. Yet it's still a journey-one of waiting. But this journey is not my own. I been digging, crying, praying this week when I listen to the song Jeremiah. I pray we all could detonate. Grace and peace to you!!

Dee October 29, 2009 • 08:14 PM

Love you music! Unfortunately we can't find the lyrics to "It's Me' could you please post them> I would be eternally grateful!

Angie Goff October 29, 2009 • 09:54 AM

I just received an email from the website Tangle introducing Sara's new video, "It's me." Wow. I'm going to share it with the members of a marriage class my husband and I are leading. I wanted to let you know that I have been a Sara Groves fan since I discovered her through the songs from "Conversations." Sara and I are about the same age...and her music has been very personal to me. With every new project, Sara seems to document the stages of my life as well...and so profoundly. We are walking some folks through Emerson Eggerichs "Love & Respect" seminar DVDs. It's the first time my husband and I have ever stepped out to minister in this way. I've been playing music from "The Other Side of Something" and especially "Add to the Beauty" before the start of our marriage classes on Sunday mornings. The songs from these CDs, in particular, have ministered volumes to my husband and I as we've experienced tough times in marriage and in adapting to raising children. My husband and I have two sets of twins...six-year-old boy and girl and boys of age 4 3/4 (who are both playing under my desk right now as I attempt to send this note.) I'm excited about Sara's new project and can't wait to soak it all in. My only regret is that Sara isn't in OH too much. My husband once surprised me with a couple of days away to see Sara in concert in upstate New York. Such a great memory for us! Many blessings to you, your family and the important ministry you do. Angie Goff Columbus, OH

Tina Russo Ozias October 28, 2009 • 06:39 PM

In 1964-65, I went to Evangel with your mother in law, Marlene and father in law, Jerry. She was one of the sweetest girls I had ever known. Please send her my greetings after 40 years. Also, I dated your husbands Uncle Larry 1 time and he also was one of the nicest guys I had ever met. I love your music and feel so blessed to have known your family. May God bless you in your career as you travel all over the country. Sincerely, Tina Russo Ozias

Laura Christmas October 26, 2009 • 06:38 PM

Have just been through a cleft lip repair surgery with my 4th child. I popped in you Christmas CD and have been weeping and weeping. The Lord is using it to keep my heart and eyes open to His Glory as I endure the wear and tear of life. You are being used by the Spirit to touch lives.I pray God's peace upon you and your home.

Megan October 26, 2009 • 05:36 PM

Sara, Thanks for sharing the Gospel in your everyday life. It is an encouragement for me to live out the reality of the Gospel in my everyday life.

Bryan Kuderman October 26, 2009 • 01:31 PM

I did not know of your music until Pandora led me to you. I cried at your song, "What do I know" as I drove to my job at BIOLA around 5:00am. You are truly annointed and I look forward to The Lord's continued work in you. 1Cor 15:58

Steve Wajda October 26, 2009 • 07:50 AM

Sara, Not sure if you remember us...we met you in 1997 at Roseville when you gave a concert... Past The Wishing. Our daughter Amariah, 2 at the time, was battling cancer and we bought your dvd. She walked around our house singing your songs foe the next several years. She still enjoys your music today. In 2004 we adopted our second daughter who is now 7. She, Mia, absolutely LOVES your music. She sings many of your songs and begs me to find a way to meet you. I just noticed you are coming to the Twin Cities December 18. I am returning from China on December 19 and very disappointed that I will miss that opportunity to bring Mia to hear you sing. I only hope she gets the chance to meet you. Kim, my wife, will be bringing her to the concert...and I am sure I will hear about it forever after that. I also LOVE your music and have been inspired on countless occasions by your heart and soul that is reflected in your music. We are all fans forever! lovingly the W4, steve

susan October 25, 2009 • 01:59 PM

Sara, There is a project that "Music for the Soul,"has been trying to put together...I feel with what you know of it through knowledge, that the Holy Spirit could work thru you to help bring it to fruitation. I hope you will take time to check it out,and maybe bring friends to help...just a thought and a prayer. S.

Jeanne October 24, 2009 • 04:20 PM

I absolutely LOVE Sara's music. She is such a talented writer. I am blessed every time I hear her.

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Jeff Keane October 23, 2009 • 02:48 PM

Love the sound of the song "you are the sun"(?) It has a definitive "medieval" sound to my ears, anyway. I'd love to hear an entire album dedicated to god-honoring tunes in a "medieval" vernacular. Perhaps you could "pilfer" a few "remakes" of already recorded songs.Like: re-do a similar sound to "greensleeves",or something along those lines. Your voice (to me)seems right at home with the "quirky", unusual sounds like I hear in the first mentioned song. Regardless, thanks so much for sharing your talents.I hear you on KCBI Dallas, TX fm 90.9. Jeff

Michael Staples October 23, 2009 • 10:43 AM

Dear Troy and Sara Groves, Thank you for laying down your lives with Christ. Your ministry brings me strength and peace, you have made my heart glad. I am recovering from chemotherapy for leukemia and my wife bought "Conversations" for my birthday. What a pleasure to listen to communion with God from beginning to end. Thank you both for your sacrifice you have personally made that Christ may pour forth to others. I thank God for the faith you accept from Christ. I have three children and I am still learning to trust God for them. I thank God for how you love your children, I do not know how you could love them more: to keep them with you on the path He sets before you, trusting in Christ so they can see, fixing your eyes on Him, that is wonderful love. Praise God. Several years ago I was uncertain in my faith and God was so kind to me. He gave me a communion with Him I would like to share with you if you would be glad to receive it. Here are examples I hope you both enjoy, one for Troy and one for Sara.It is from a collection I would be glad to send to you as a thank you for your blessing to me. Hungry To Love You When I am hungry to love you, I have not been at the feast, for there has been loving you every day of your life. God this love, and He has set Himself before you, set Himself toward you, saying, "Come dine Michael, let Me serve you Myself." And so I eat, and I drink, Spirit, cross, word and life and truth; I eat, so I am filled, and you are loved. Here is faithfulness to you; it is not mine, goodness on my plate, gentleness in my mouth, every portion God, every portion yours. This table has no end, our cups overflow. there is joy, there is longsuffering, there are promises, and His keeping of promises. When I am full of God, eating His bread:Jesus, drinking His Spirit: Jesus, there is loving you every day of my life. Filled in God All The Caesars All the Caesars are come and gone, but this Bible is in my hands. All philosophers are found by death, but Christ lives, here, in me. I am here by God for this hour, for these people, and this place; not a pawn, not a toy, not a tool, but a child. I can let you meet my Brother, I can let you greet my Father; other than these, there are no great things that I can do. Thank you again. In the love of Christ, Michael and Suzanne Staples.

John Oluwabiyi October 23, 2009 • 07:57 AM

I wanna appreciate the Lord for what He is using you for and in fact, I can't explain how your song has given me courage and enable me to rise to the task ahead of me. I saw what I saw and Love is still a worthy cause are my favorites for now though i had couples of your music video. Once again, our generation are in debited to you. May the Lord keep you always and as you have live to give made Lord continue to do the same for you. Remain bless and keep the good work. Oh!! before I go i just uploaded one of your video(Love is Still A Worthy Cause) to my face-book's page, If you want me to remove it I will gladly do.

Rebecca October 22, 2009 • 11:03 AM

Sara, I'm listening to "Fireflies and Songs". Your words touch me so much that I am just moved to tears. Thanks for writing. I'm really enjoying this new work of yours. In Christ, Rebecca

Donna October 22, 2009 • 08:04 AM

Dear Sara: Thank you so much for allowing God to talk to our hearts through you. The first song I heard of your's was "The Word." I felt strengthened by the scriptures you quoted and I loved the song. Several months later my sister loaned me a couple of your CDs and said, "I think you will really like her music." So, I listened . . . and she was right!! Well, almost, I actually LOVE your music. She loaned me the CDs at just the right time too. As I listened to the songs, one song in particular grabbed my heart-- "You cannot lose my love." I think that is the correct title. Several months later when my son came to me and asked if I had any suggestions for a song he and I could dance to at his wedding, I said, "How about this..." and I handed him the CD and asked him to listen to that song." He came back to me with teary eyes and said "that is perfect." So that is what we danced to at his wedding and we both had tears flowing throughout the whole song -- good tears, but tears none the less. The song has meant more and more to me. A few months after he got married, we found out that his wife does not like us. For several months she "forbid" him to have any contact with us. I was able to listen to your song and though it made me sad it also reminded me, no matter what choices they make - - - they are NOT going to lose my love!!! Things are somewhat better now. It has been over a year and we are not as close as I had dreamed we would be -- but we can have contact. So thank you for all your music, but especially for that special song that allowed a mother and son to dance at a wedding and prepared a mother's heart to love with determination never to stop loving.

Paul October 22, 2009 • 08:05 AM

Hi Sara, I just want to say hi and that I really appreciate your music and the power of your words. Keep up the great work that God has called you to do. I'm always listening! On a further note, myself and another sister-in-Christ have recently started a small drumstick company in Brooklyn, NY – we were wondering if your drummer(s) would be willing to try out our sticks and provide some feedback on what they think and how we may improve them. We would really appreciate it. Please let me know if I can send some sticks over and where to. Thanks! Hope this message finds you well, Paul

Diana October 21, 2009 • 03:01 PM

Sara, You do have a gift. A few gifts actually and they are beautiful. You can write and sing beautiful powerful songs. Songs that have helped me while I was going through very rough times. They remind me that I'm only human, I can only do so much, I need to remember I am not alone, to have faith, and surrender to God. They give me peace and help me breathe. Thank you and God bless you always. A big hug, Diana

Pat October 21, 2009 • 06:03 AM

I purchased the "Fireflies" downloadable CD package last week. I love the new CD. "From This One Place" is my top favorite so far. I have a hard time getting past the 5th or 6th track, and I'm rewinding back to track 2 again. So I have listened to some of the later tracks only once or twice. Thanks for another awesome, heartfelt production.

Hayley Nellis October 21, 2009 • 04:27 AM

i pray blessings and joy upon you and all the work you do. it continues to inspire and move me towards God! xoxoxo hayley

-jim October 20, 2009 • 04:49 PM

Sara, Troy, & the Band; I was so excited to have the chance to see and hear you play in Canandaigua, NY in September!! Thanks for making the journey to share your talents, gifts, and ministry! I've been contantly blessed and re-centered by your work ever since Conversation. Mere words can't express how powerful the connections are that your music and message makes. Thank you deeply. Wishing you all many blessings and much joy in your work and play!

samantha October 20, 2009 • 11:56 AM

hey Sara i just wanna let ya know that you are doing a great work....i love you and you songs...fly is going to be my first dance song(if i ever get married:))i also love tent in the center of town...the beat and words are just amazing...so i just wanna let you know that you are doing more good than bad in the world(not that your bad at all) but you are really helping me and others in their walk with GOD..you helping me to listen to the right songs and keeping me o track...you are really doing a work in me...and i thank you for that...even though i am young i'm sure that there are adults out there who agree with me...well as this letter comes to an end i just want to let you know that you are totally AMAZING!!!

sheila yepsen October 20, 2009 • 07:41 AM

Dear Sara Groves, Please forgive the typing. I yearn to write in my own pen, but I fear you would not beable to read it! My name is Sheila Yepsen. I am the mother of Lance Corporal Luke Carney Yepsen, Killed in action on Dec 14, 2006 by a sniper in Iraq. He was only 20 years old. A smart wonderful young man. Three days before he died, he called me and said that he could feel the angels wings around him. “It is so awesome mom and so incredible! Please tell everyone thank you for their prayers!” He thought it was for protection. I sensed that they were there to be with him, to take him home. But what could I say, but I love you so much! And pray that I was wrong. Next thing I knew there were 3 marines standing at my door. A few months later, I began the cleaning off of some surfaces. A job that would not be done for almost 2 years. I found your cd. There was no note. I have no idea who left it. I would like to think it was the same angels that were with Luke. It has given me great comfort and I thought you ought to know. I was driving to the cemetary to spend time with Luke. At that time I went quite often. I came upon the song, “It’s going to be alright” . I played it over and over and over again. I needed to hear that it would be alright. That someone understood that I had not gotten any sleep for months. That I was trying to rise above it but couldn’t........I do believe, I do believe. As a woman of faith....I had been shaken to my core. Women from my church said they would carry me in prayer until I could pray again. Thank you God. Just like in your song. But when I was alone, driving to see my son, it was your song that carried me. It is interesting, because as my pain evolved so did my choice of songs on this cd. So many people tried to give me ‘grief’ cd’s but they were too much....telling me how to feel.....telling me how I will feel in the future. Yours let me be, exactly where I was at the moment. The next song was Kingdom Comes. The faking of moving forward. I couldn’t address my anger.....I tried but it was way more than I could handle. That would come at year 2. But this song said it like it was. I blessed instead of cursed, because I knew that is what God was calling me to do. I opened my heart and my home and actually had a family living with me for 3 months while the husband who broke his neck was in the medical center. Sharing their present pain and struggles helped me move. Not forward or back, just move. To serve. I was not able to think very clearly, but then neither was the wife. We called ourselves ‘half brains’ . Together we made a whole. So you see your song, a little stone , a little mortar........so accurate. Then it was ‘Why it matters.’ THere was something about the story of Christ. His suffering, death and resurrection......Mary at the foot of the cross, She understood my pain. Better than anyone. She watched her son die. As a Catholic, we pray in the Hail Mary, ‘now at the hour of our death’. Because she was there. She didn’t run. I like to think that she held Luke in her arms too. ‘Like a single cup of water, How it matters’. This song reminded me that although I was not capable of serving my church or neighbors like I had in the past, that I could do small things, very small things and that would make a difference. Are you tiring of me? I pray not. Because then it was “Loving a Person”. You see there came a time when I wish I could have changed my son and reflected on his choices. What if I had said No to the Marines instead of seeing his passion and allowing him to follow his heart. Did he know that he had a mission in life? I think so. But who is to say that grief makes sense. Gary and I questioned everything and guilt set in. “If we go looking for offense ...we’re going to find it”. So very true. Your song, helped me see things clearer. So you may be wondering the time line. I am not exact. I have only wanted to write you for 2 and a half years. But it is as it is. Why it Matters. What a beautiful song. The power of the story. The story of my son, was so incredible. The lives he touched and continued to touch long after his death became apparent. Luke was very spiritual and had written some beautiful letters. The letters were read to members of the church before he died. All about prayer and faith. Your song, the chaos all around, yet the love that never fails. So anyway. This December will be 3 years. I bought several of your cd’s saying to myself that I would send them to anyone who might lose a son like me. Recently, one of Luke’s friends died in California. He was training in the desert and collapsed from heat stroke and died. The Marines had run out of water. They told the men to tough it out. Yes in the land of the free, in our own country, they ran out of water. My grief for his mother is huge. I will send her your cd and pray that it offers her some comfort as it did for me. I am sorry it took so long for me to write. But then maybe this is the right time. May God continue to bless you and your work. Sincerely, Sheila Yepsen

Laura October 19, 2009 • 03:47 PM

Thank you for your beautiful lyrics and songs. They have touched my life in a tremendous way. I would like to sing "He's Always Been Faithful" at my church. Could you tell me where I can find a performance track? Many Blessings, Laura

Elise Daly Parker October 18, 2009 • 04:21 PM

Well it strikes me that I probably do go back to your earliest days, when I was a young, or at least younger mom! And I have been blessed to enjoy you all in person a few times too...including in Pennsylvania and most recently at Cornerstone Church in Wyckoff, NJ. Wonderful! What a beautiful evening of Sara and the band and the New City Kids. Truly inspiring. Oh there are so many life-changing songs that have guided me on my journey. Generations really struck me as I was raising my young children and had such a revelation of the truth that generations will indeed reap what I sow. Ugh! Then Past The Wishing...such a testimony to at least a little progression in our relationship with the Lord. Less Like Scars, such a powerful statement of God's ability to transform. Oh, and Roll to the Middle, such a painfully true depiction of marriage...and the worth-it-ness of sticking through the ups and downs (as I get ready to celebrate 25 years of so wonderful, a little terrible, real marriage and yes, I am truly thankful!). And as I release my children, one married, two in college, and one still in the nest, Station Wagon has deeply spoken to me...and sometimes led me to buckets of tears, which is not a problem, since I don't mind crying. And Sara's lyrics, music, transparency have taken me there many times. Yes, I pray that "our weaknesses will (indeed) become our strengths"! Oh and I just love the hysterically funny, yet poignant Small Piece of You...and as a big pray-er and part of the ministry of Moms In Touch, where we pour out our hearts for our children in prayer every week, for now over 16 years, I too have learned to hold on to the heart of God. He is my hope...He is theirs too! So thank you, thank you, all these years, for ministering to me, keeping me company, teaching me, moving me, along the path of motherhood and my walk with God!!! Love, Elise www.OurStoriesGodsGlory.blogspot.com

sarah October 16, 2009 • 05:00 PM

I was thrilled to download and listen to the new album, Fireflies and Songs. It's been on repeat for about the last 7 hours. Thank you, Sara, for being genuine and sharing your heart, experiences, joy, and pain in your songs. The best line of the album, for me, is from Different Kinds of Happy: "... better than our promises is the day we got to keep them ..." So, so true. Our marriage vows were easy to say, but our marriage started in a new way with a situation & conversation much like in this song. Thanks for writing these songs. They're a real blessing.

Mike Waldyke October 16, 2009 • 12:04 PM

I just downloaded and listened to "Fireflies and Songs". Absolutely beautiful! It is filled with the gentle, singer-songwriter type of songs that Sara does best. My first impression: this new album is among her best. It brightened up my whole week when I saw the email announcing a new album. Listening to it brightened up my week even more. Now I hope the Christmas tour gets a stop a little closer to home (southern Michigan). I loved last year's concert, so I'm hoping for a chance to go again this year.

Courtney Maggs October 15, 2009 • 12:35 PM

Hi Sara, please come to Albany area in New York! I have followed you for years, bought your CDs ahead every time I could, and have never had the chance to see you in concert. You have blessed me incredibly through your music, and I even sang "Fly" to my husband at our wedding, and "You Cannot Lose my Love" to my daughter in my womb throughout my pregnancy. I know so many others would be blessed by your music in upstate NY. Its so rare that Christian artists come our way. Perhaps you could come on December 7th, to Faith Baptist Church in Rexford, NY during your Christmas tour on your way from Manchester, NY to Pennsylvania! Can you see how desperate I am to see you? Haha. :) Seriously, I'm so blessed by you. Keep up the great work you do in your ministry, by speaking the truth with honesty and vulnerability in your music. Thank you, Courtney Maggs cfitzgerald7@hotmail.com

Jessica Sichel October 14, 2009 • 03:49 PM

I just wanted to say that I was on your sight reviewing songs from Add to the Beauty to pick one for my Bible Study tonight (I'm trying to use one each night of the 8 week study) and my little two-year-old daughter starting singing along with "Loving a Person Just the Way They Are"... We call them "Sara song"s. Thank you for helping raise the next generation in the beauty of truth, the intense love of God.

Jessica Sichel October 14, 2009 • 03:49 PM

gail October 13, 2009 • 08:37 PM

Peace. After being involved in an extremely legalistic religious group for over a decade, we were embraced by grace and finally realized it. The healing process has been slow and painful at times but wonderful. Your songs have played a crucial part. Thanks.

Michael from San Diego October 13, 2009 • 11:56 AM

Sarah, I just received news about your husband's grandfather's passing... God Bless you and Troy, and all your family at this tough time. I have yet to see you when you've come to Maranatha Chapel, but I've heard it's a wonderful time. I look forward to that day, until then, I am sorry for your loss and will keep you all in my prayers. Michael

Ivan October 13, 2009 • 11:01 AM

The new album is fantastic! Mellow, thoughtful, and thought-provoking (as always). The voice gentler and even more searching than usual. Listening to it on the bus on the way to work today, I was impressed by how, where prior albums are very Christ-centered, this album is haunted by the healing and love of the Holy Spirit. Cheers, and thanks!

Gary Williams October 12, 2009 • 05:01 PM

I just discovered your music about a year ago. I appreciate your transparency. My oldest son and his wife are in the early process of adopting a child from Africa. I pray that God will protect you and bless you with more great songs. My favorites are Painting Pictures In Egypt and It looks like scars. Also, It might be Hope and He has always been faithful. I hope one day to see you here in Indianapolis. You are loved. Gary

David J. Summers October 12, 2009 • 04:34 PM

The new album is amazing! Not only does everyone need to purchase a copy for themselves...they need to buy a copy for everyone they know. Thanks for sharing so much of you, and so effortlessly capturing the joy that is somewhere in all of our hearts...a desire to love, in truth, and be fight for what is real in this world of deception! Blessings!

Craig Cunningham October 12, 2009 • 07:41 AM

I'd like to purchase the Fireflies and Songs packages in bulk to give to my wife's Discipleship group. If you would email me with best details/options, I would appreciate it.

laura wise October 09, 2009 • 01:54 PM

Sara, I'm thrilled to know that your new album is coming out on my birthday!!!

Matt Paisley October 08, 2009 • 07:11 PM

Just heard your music for the first time about a year ago. I moved from Chicago a few years ago, and I wish my family could have seen/heard you while we were there. You certainly have a God-given gift! Please book some concerts in Florida!

Karen Niedenfuer October 07, 2009 • 03:01 PM

Thank you Sara, your music has helped and healed.

Rick and Evie October 07, 2009 • 12:25 PM

We attended the Warrior Works concert in Canandaiguia, NY this September. Thank you for your inspoiration and down to earth testimonials of how God has carried you through. We look forward to seeing you agian. Until then, I'll hear from you in my car on my way to work. God bless you, your family, your band, and your friends who help you with the Word!

Christy October 07, 2009 • 08:57 AM

I have not purchased any Christian CD's for a long, long time. And at a Women's Seminar I got to hear Sara and her band share the songs on Tell Me What You Know. I purchased it, and I have to tell you that this music has been daily challenging me. It is the epitome of "Deep calling to Deep" as far as I am concerned. I can listen to this music while I go about being a mother and wife, and still keep my mind on the things I am passionate about. In Isaiah 1:17 God shares his passion (which is so evident in this music) "Cease to do evil, Learn to do good; Seek justice, Rebuke the oppressor; Defend the fatherless, Plead for the widow." Thank you Sara and Band for being a tremendous encouragement to me, and for offering me a daily challenge to please the God who saved me.

Dylan October 06, 2009 • 07:28 AM

Sara, Just wanted to tell you how much my wife and I (and kiddos too) enjoy your music. You are an amazing songwriter/musician and a true blessing to all who are fortunate enough to hear your songs. Keep up the good work and may God bless you with a long and prosperous career. Thanks!!

Matt Tuttlebee October 06, 2009 • 07:12 AM

Just for your encouragement, as a small church plant leader in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland I have been inspired by your song 'add to the beauty'. On Sunday we had an artist come to help us celebrate the creativity that god has placed witin us all. She helped the church produce together this amazing piece of artwork in the service to express our desire to add to the beauty of what God is doing in our lives and in the community we live amoung. Thank you - I hope to post a copy of the picture arising from your song on the what's on page of our website in the next couple of days - www.nenaghbaptistgroup.ie

Katie October 04, 2009 • 08:11 PM

Sara, It would be too small to say that I enjoyed you at BTG this weekend. I was moved beyond words to connect, praise, witness and do more in God's name in our community. clearly, God anointed your work in an agape way when you have put pen to paper and inspired you with family, children, and life to write these lyrics. Besides tears, I felt deeper when hearing and reading the music. God bless you, your work in Christ & your DAD who does read this. I too, have a proud father who would sing my praises and encourage me on...Blessed we both are. Please continue to be guided, gifted and giving of your talent-it's truly awe inspiring. Sincerely, Katie

Tracy Bohm October 04, 2009 • 05:59 PM

I was at the Bridging the Gap women's retreat...my first ever! It was an awesome concert you all put on! Love, love your music. God must be so proud of you!

DondiWoitalla October 04, 2009 • 01:02 PM

Sara, I was at your concert at the Bridging the Gap Friday night. How amazing you are and what a Blessing we all have to hear what the Spirit brings to us through you! I connected with so much of you, your words and the music. I have so many things to say but I seem to be out of words... Thank you Dondi

Angela Collier October 03, 2009 • 11:20 PM

Sara, Since I bought one of your CD's around 2000 it helped me through a divorce. I have bought more of your CD's since then- I am a songwriter and a pianist too- and everytime I hear your music I can't wait to play and write. Your truly an inspiration. You rank right next to Keith Green for me music inspiration wise. I have a three year old so its hard to play and write as much. When I hear you it is motivating. God Bless you. Angela Collier

Bonnie Wishnietsky October 02, 2009 • 08:44 AM

Thank you so much for the blessing of the "Other Side of Something" I would like to have the sound track to The One Thing I Know if at all possible. My daughter is dyslexic but very talented musically and when I heard the lyrics to this song I hope that you make it available so that we might sing this in our local church! PLEASE In Christ's Love Bonnie

Mary Free October 02, 2009 • 06:25 AM

Dear Ms. Groves, I was introduced to your music by a mutual friend during a time of great emotional upheaval. Though I am not a "Christian", I do believe in the power of the positive. Your music is a positive force in the world. It expresses, with great poetry and clarity, all of the turmoil and joy present in my life. Thank you. Best wishes. Mary Free

Myron mASON October 02, 2009 • 03:55 AM

Hello Sarah, I happen to hear your song "Conversations". I was so moved by the simplistic view you described the thoughts of so many in the world with your own point of view in the song conversations. So I did a little research of who you were and I saw how traveling the country and seeing other parts of the world has help mold and shape the singer songwriter that you are today. Then when I saw the video about the trip to africa, I really felt your heart in your songs. You have a anointing on you that's so needed in the world today. Continue to be a water hose and refresh people all around the world. Bless You

Coop October 01, 2009 • 06:42 PM

Wow, best lyrics I've heard since Resurrection Band. Very real and thoughtful. It's nice to know there are people writing songs that still have some depth. I'm really grieved with the lameness of many of the "christian artists" that want to be "rock stars".

partlyhere October 01, 2009 • 05:46 AM

i just wanted to chime in and say nice design.

Mike Beecham September 30, 2009 • 09:03 PM

Beautiful person inside and out, music has endless abilities. God bless you in all you do.

Kristin Herrera September 30, 2009 • 07:50 AM

I sit at my desk at work listening to a beautiful cd, The Other Side of Something, that a truly wonderful woman shared with me. Becca has been such a blessing to me since we started our jobs together in January of this year, and she continues to bless my days with her smiles and love for our Lord. Not only that, but she introduced me to your music. The first gift she gave me was Station Wagon. My daughter and I love it. I drive, she sings and then falls asleep. I drive and sing, and skip back to previous tracks and listen and drive and sing some more until we get to where we are going. The Angels Watching Over Me track is going to wear out before Ella turns two! I just wanted to thank you for creating such true, significant and addicting music. I am so blessed to have Becca in my life, your music in my cd player, and a Lord who loves me just the way I am. Keep up the fantabulous work! I hope to meet you some day soon! -Kristin

John Blase September 29, 2009 • 03:28 PM

Sara, I've written a small Christmas book that reminds me in some ways of your Christmas cd. Don Pape is my publisher and boss. I'd love to gift your family with it; no strings attached. If not, no worries, but if so, where might a man send such a gift? Grace, always grace, John

Shawn Menendez September 29, 2009 • 09:36 AM

Sara, Im 43 and my fiance is 28. We both love your music and would really like to express that you putting Austin, Tx on your schedule would be such a blessing. Our church, the Austin Stone has over 4000 members, mostly UT students. Not to mention the countless surrounding churches. Austin loves Jesus!

Michelle September 29, 2009 • 04:47 AM

Sara, when are you coming to Australia??!!

Sally Greenham September 28, 2009 • 07:17 PM

I wasn't really familiar with your music until we watched the movie "The Ultimate Gift" and heard "Something Changed". I love the words and the meaning to that song. The part of the video that I loved (when we saw it in the bonus features on the DVD) is that it not only showed you performing, but also serving. There is a beauty in serving others, isn't there? Currently my husband and I are financially challenged, and not able to serve in some of the ways that I really dream of serving. (Actually we homeschool and have this crazy dream building up inside lately of living in an RV and just witnessing, and serving, and traveling, and learning but anyway . . . ) But the funny thing is that even without money, there are sooooo many ways to serve. Just to sit with the homeless and to let them know that you "see" them, and that you care about them as a person, is a gift. It helps to remind me that even when we feel that we are "hurting" there is someone that hurts more, and helping them helps me too. I don't know why I felt called to share all of that with you, but I look forward to hearing more of your music now. It inspires me to do more, and to be more, and I like that. God Bless and keep blessing others with your song!

Ashera September 28, 2009 • 11:48 AM

Hi Sara, I bought your Conversations project a while ago. It had been sorta filed away until today. I have just listened and wondered where is Sara Groves? Nice to see that you are still writing and singing. I too am a writer, flutist and singer. It's been a long journey for me. Now a Mom and home-schooler, it gets creative trying to do it all. God is good though and He is helping me work through the challenges. All the best to you! Ashera

becky higg September 28, 2009 • 05:20 AM

hi sara, i'm writing to ask your permission for a little something . . . i'm a songwriter over in the UK, and i'm just in the process of setting up a little website. I really love your stuff, and so many of your lyrics capture so well what's in my heart. I'm wondering if you'd mind if i use some of your lyrics as quotes on my website? i'll go ahead and do it ok, and if you'd rather i didn't then just drop me an email and i'll remove it . . . :-) thanks so much for your music. love becks

Margaret and Mel Molitor September 27, 2009 • 07:45 PM

Dear Sara, We have been fans of yours since end of May, 2000 when you came to visit my first husband, as he was dying. You unselfishly came to our home in Spencer, IA and sang to him. I will never forget it, never. Jerry died June 30, 2000 of cancer. I got the courage to ask (my present husband) Mel on a 'date', which was one of your concerts at Arnolds Park, IA in Aug, 2002. We met you at another concert in Spencer, approx 2004. You have and continue to touch our hearts. Thank you for that. A question we have is, "Do you ever write songs for people?" My husband, Mel's 88 yr old mother just died. She was a very faith-filled mother of 9, and he wrote a tribute to her, from his heart. Now that the funeral is past, we wondered if putting it to song was a possibility? We realize you are very busy with your concerts, ministry and family. If this is possible, you may write us back at: mmolitor@smunet.net Either way, we remain faithful fans, Margaret and Mel Molitor

Archangel of Russia September 27, 2009 • 07:35 AM

Our Jesus healed the sick, raised the dead and spoke only of peace and love and he was arrested and had the flesh whipped off his body and was nailed to a cross until death. Our lord's only crime was loving all of us. Don't ever forget what planet your on! The very appearance of Angels means one thing, the time of the Lord is near.

Shannon September 24, 2009 • 07:52 PM

And please, please come to Northwest Arkansas sometime....we don't all wear overalls and go barefoot.:O) I saw at Hearts@Home (a few years ago) that your bus was stuck in Bentonville, headed to LA for Katrina. I thought..."Oh, if only I would have seen it. I would have had the whole bunch of you over for good ole' southern dinner and sweet tea!"

Shannon September 24, 2009 • 07:47 PM

I cannot begin to tell you how your music has spoken to me...as a wife, mother and God seeker. Thank you, Sara! I love your generous heart! We feel blessed in life and want to pass it along, as you do. Thank you for your inspiring example! XO

Connie September 24, 2009 • 08:21 AM

Hi, I guess writing here is a good way of pouring out my heart. At least I know people like you believe in God and that I can too and that I am not alone. I am five weeks pregnant and really happy. I am also going through some inward turmoil on my own. The thing is, before I met my husband, I was involved in bad relationships, drunk a lot and basically lived a life that is not pleasing to God. Last year, about the same time, I found out I was pregnant, my first reaction was of disbelief and anger...,my boyfriend at the time was abusive and there was no future..., I agreed to an abortion which he insisted on and payed for. I don't blame him cos, I could have made my own choices.., for so long I couldn't live with myself and what I had done...., I have sought God and he has told me in his word that He has forgiven me..... and then now I am pregnant.., and I still think about my first baby (Joshua), thats what I called him..., I cry when I think of him.... I know in my heart of hearts that he was a boy. Right now I am having to lie that this is my first pregnancy, and my husband doesn't know..., I feel bad, I am also hoping that God blesses with more children despite what I did. please pray for me to find complete healing..,I feel like an animal, like I don't deserve to be here, and I can't share this with anyone...(except here cos you don't know me) ..., I have repented and asked God to forgive me.., I became born again..., I hope my baby growing inside me will be okay. I miss Joshua though but I know he is with Jesus.... Thanks..

Nolan & Rebekah September 24, 2009 • 07:40 AM

My wife and I used to live in Springfield MO. She is from there, and we both finished grad school at SBU. I saw you at a Brown Bag special for KSBJ in Sugarland a few years ago (before I met my wife). We now live near Ann Arbor, MI and we miss Andy's Frozen Custard. Keep up the great work. God bless you.

kristin September 24, 2009 • 05:49 AM

Hi Sara, I've never done anything like this before, but could not get away from that prodding to do so. My husband and I just saw you in Canidagua. A couple of summer's ago was the first time I heard your music as we were driving to Virginia for a family vacation. My husband bought your cd conversations and I listened to it with my eye closed as he drove in it's entirety. Little did I know that that coming fall and winter I would go through a very painful time in my life where I needed courage and strength. It was as if your songs were speaking to me. I can't even describe how much your music has helped me! It must be an amazing feeling to know that people that you have never met are listening to your songs and as a result connecting to the Father in beautiful ways. WoW. By the way. I thought that I was the only one who sounded great harmonizing with you(as I'm doing dishes, driving, vacuuming) The girl that sings with you is just wonderful, I met my match!(smile). Any way, kidding aside, thank you for sharing your gift with the body of Christ. Thank you for provoking me to think beyond myself. I'm praying for you and family. (big hug) ps. Human trafficing is something that my husband and I have been ultra sensitive to lately, and didn't know why. You mentioned it at concert and we just squeezed eachothers hand. Since then, a few more things have happened to draw our attention. God is stirring His people's hearts. I'm trusting Him for guidance.

Rachel Hubbard September 23, 2009 • 02:49 PM

Sara- PLEASE tell me how it's possible that you are such a genius!! :) I cannot even begin to describe how much you inspire me. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, for loving Jesus, and being bold in your creativity and bringing something new to the table of Christian Contemporary music, with every album you make. I've known about your music for about 6 or 7 years because my mom loves your music, and she even met you at a show years ago, but since I've become an adult, your music finds ways to relate to me now more than ever. I've been listening to pretty much every song of yours for the past month, whether it be at home, on campus, or in coffee shops doing homework. I mean, I've cried, I've laughed, and I've been so encouraged by you. Please, never stop writing music. Your fans love you. Praying that you'll be blessed!

Rick Schweitzer September 22, 2009 • 04:41 PM

Sara: I caught “How Is It Between Us” on the Christian cable music channel on a Saturday evening back in May of this year. I was stuck not by the lyrics but by the quality of your voice. Being a musician and living a with house full of musicians to boot, I am always on the lookout for excellent music. Being a drummer, I listen for vocal phrasing and get to the lyrics later. Sorry about that! Searching further on the Internet I was able to listen to more of what you have recorded and it is nothing but awesome. I purchased of copy of Conversations and continue to enjoy it in the car, on my MP3 player and I just had in playing in our sanctuary this past weekend as I assembled my drum set and microphones and sound gear for our worship service. While touring and being on the road can be filled with excitement and disappointment, don’t give up. What you do, your message and your lifelong commitment to Christ, your family and yourself is who you are. Your fingerprint proves it. It can’t be duplicated. God Bless. Rick Schweitzer Dalton, MA

David J. Summers September 22, 2009 • 11:20 AM

Hi Sara and Troy! I want to say thank you for sharing your music and story and lives with us at the Songwriters Conference in California a few weeks ago! You have been a huge blessing to my ministry and life, and I really appreciated your compassion when we talked about the separation and hurt in my family. Sara, I chatted with you about my interest in joining your support team in Rawanda, and I left my e-mail address with Troy so that you could send me info on joining the support team. I found the link in your blog, but it actually returns an error message at this point! I am very passionate about doing work in Africa and would love to join you on your next trip to Rawanda! I hope to hear from you soon! Much Love!

Rob Hillman September 21, 2009 • 06:21 PM

Oh Sara and Troy, You are such beautiful people! Be asured, I pray for you and your family on a regular basis. I'm sorry you are in the lime light so much, but you are doing a good work for the Lord. And you ARE loving your kids, the most important thing to you. I wish if there was anything I could do for you guys, I could be there. I droped you a note about not having a mom at the Song Writers conferance. You have touched my heart. Thank you, Rob

lola September 21, 2009 • 04:00 PM

hey Sara i am probably your biggest fan but i just want to say that you have an amazing voice and it is so comforting to hear.i was wondering if you could let me know where the song i saw what i saw is...or on what c.d.....i love you ...you are amazing love,lola

Debby Smith September 19, 2009 • 02:32 PM

Sara, Just wanted to let you know how much God's Spirit ministers, stirs and draws me closer into Him through His Spirit in your songs. My sister gave me one of your CD's about 5 years ago, and I never listened to it..until this year. It was God's timing because my heart drank in each word. I couldn't stop weeping. Your authenticity and transparecy is precious. I really apprecicate you, and I feel like you're my friend. Debby Smith

Bill Pugh September 18, 2009 • 05:46 PM

Sara, When I first heard "When The Saints" I felt that it was one of the most compelling, convicting, and inspiring contemporary Christian songs I'd ever heard. I believe to this day that God is using that song, your song, to encourage me to go onto the international mission field. One day, hopefully soon, that will happen. Now, we have all been blessed by another of your songs, "I Saw What I Saw". I could never thank you enough for the way your music has been a blessing to me. God Bless you.

Nancy Johnson September 17, 2009 • 01:17 PM

My best friend is your biggest fan and has always raved about you and how God uses you to speak and stretch her and I had the chance to see you at Northland Church in Longwood (Orlando) not too long ago. I have started to listen to a cd my friend bought for me & two of your cds I bought and God's using you in my life now too. Some of your words are helping me let go of things I've had a grip on forever!! Thank you! When I met you, you loved the bag I had my books & cd in & my best friend (the one I mentioned above) had MADE it! She was SO HAPPY that you loved her bag...that she MADE ONE FOR YOU! So ~ Do you have a POBOX or address she can send it to? We will be looking for you next time you come through Orlando. Thank you for your inspiring, thought provoking, beautiful music for our souls. Love in Christ. Nancy JOhnson

Jared Billman September 15, 2009 • 01:16 PM

Sara, I wanted to take a moment to thank you so much for your music and your ministry. I've been listening to you for years, practically since you began. I've only met you a few times personally but your family has gone to Central AG with us for a long time now. I went to Evangel (just graduated in May) and had your Dad for a few classes. I never got to tell him, but he was one of my most favorite professors because he was to honest, heartfelt, and completely genuine with all his students. He really has a passion for what he does and it shows. It was so amazing to hear from him stories of your ministry and all the challenges it has brought along the way. I've always wanted to thank you personally for your music but I just haven't had the opportunity yet. Your music has helped pull me through some of the most difficult times in my life. I'm sad to say, but right now is one of those times and I find myself retreating to your lyrics again. You have such a gift in song writing. I write all this to not only to say thank you, but to encourage you. I know your Dad spoke of several times when you were discouraged by things that would happen in the industry and other bumps along the road of life. Please remember, you are blessing to thousands of people all over the world. I wonder sometimes how things could personally be different even for me if it weren't for your ministry. So, from the bottom of my heart, thank you -thank you SO MUCH. You have made more a difference in this world than you will ever know. I know you have in my life. -Jared

Megan Phillips September 15, 2009 • 03:48 AM

Dear Sara, Thank you for your worshipful concert last weekend in Canandaigua, NY. My husband and I love your music, and this was the second concert we have been blessed to attend. I have been singing your music in my head ever since! I was especially excited when you shared your story about visiting your childhood home, because the same thing happened to my oldest friend and me this year as well! Jenny and I have known each other for 37 years, since we were 5. She lives in Texas now, and I live in upstate NY, but we were able to meet up in our childhood home town in central NY for 24 hours. She had her 6 year old daughter with her, and we took her around the town, had pizza at the local pizza place (best pizza in NY state) and drove up into our old neighborhood. Jenny's house was for sale, so we had that rare opportunity to look in all the windows and wander around the property, to show her daughter her mother's old room, and to note all the changes. The house was empty, so we were able to refurnish it in our minds, and share that with Jenny's daughter. One thing that was still there...a very fancy dart board, with a door on the front. It was still hanging on the wall in the basement!! It served as sort of an anchor in the time warp we were experiencing. I had spent a lot of time in her home when we were growing up, and so the memories flooded back for both of us, made all the more powerful because we experienced them together. It was a beautiful gift we will always cherish. I was so glad to hear that you received a similar gift! Thank you so much for sharing your music and your life stories with all of us! most sincerely, Megan Phillips

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Bob Perry September 14, 2009 • 06:47 AM

Thank you Sara. My wife and I travelled from Leominster MA. to attend your concert in Canandaigua. Your music has inspired and consoled my broken soul over the past 3 years and being able to be present Friday night was a blessing for me. Thank you again and God bless you.

Jonathan Wagner September 14, 2009 • 02:25 AM

Sara, I want to tell you that there are songs you sing which stir my spirit. Thank you. They help me to draw near to Him in worship and to hold close to Him in times of need. God uses your gifts to help so many. Thank you, Jonathan Wagner

Bill Patrowicz September 12, 2009 • 09:47 PM

Thank you for an incredible evening in Canandaigua, NY. Your grace is an example for all believers who are compelled to serve. I want you to know that 3 new companies want to "adopt a wounded warrior," because of our efforts last night. May God continue to bless you.

Therese September 12, 2009 • 06:23 PM

Hi Sara, I have seen you the last 2 times you have been in Charleston, SC - It's time for you to come back!! We love you and your deep, heartfelt music!

Lisa Ashbrook September 12, 2009 • 08:12 AM

Sara, Last night I traveled from Buffalo to see you perform in Canandaigua and I thoroughly enjoyed the intimate evening. I have loved your music for a long time, and now after seeing the simple, honest way you share your artistry, I'm encouraged to stay true to a simple integrity in the abilities God has entrusted to me. Although I can't sing (shower doesn't count) He has blessed me richly in ways that continue to humble and keep me awestruck. Sometimes, I am weighted by the enormity of my smallness before God and His goodness to me in spite of it. Seeing you entrust His plan for you to Him in a way that, counter-culturally, points heavenward, was both refreshing and galvanizing. Thank you and God bless as you continue to offer Him your life. Lisa Ashbrook

Debbie Mims September 11, 2009 • 02:53 PM

I recently arrived home from Zimbabwe, Africa. While working online for a presentation to share what GOD is doing with Bethany Ministries, the mission organization that I'm a part of, I found your song, "I Saw What I Saw." I am writing to ask about sharing it with the churches I visit as the slideshow from our trip plays. It is the perfect song for this summer and what GOD did. I've also blogged and will continue to do so as we work this side to prepare to go back to Zim. The blog is: dedeinafrica.blogspot.com Thank you so much for your willingness to step beyond a pew and serve truly with your own hands and feet. Thank you even more for sharing your heart through the music GOD gifts you with. It is a blessing. Debbie Mims - Ma Sibanda (the Lion - my Ndebele name)

Barry Niese September 11, 2009 • 05:06 AM

Hi Sarah, First of all thankyou for your minisrty and using your gifts for God's glory. My wife and I and family listen much to your music. I have a song I have written called "Beloved Goodbye". After my father and brother in law passed away I wrote it for my mom and sister. I can here you sing it in your style. I wanted to know if you would be interested in hearing it and using it as future material. The honesty of the song seems to fit with your music. Take care to you and your family The Niese's thecoffeedog@msn.com

Sarah Batchelor September 10, 2009 • 09:12 AM

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SARA! My whole family LOVES your music. Thanks for the innumerable gifts you have given to so many people through your music and your life. May God's richest blessings be upon you. Any new CD in the works?? :) Sarah

Sean Bulow September 10, 2009 • 04:59 AM

I'm currently in Iraq and I just wanted to tell you that God uses your music in many ways. Your music really lifts me up in bad times. God Bless!

John Anderson September 07, 2009 • 11:10 AM

Love the music and the reality check that it brings to my life. I just wish more of it were available as sheet music, "Stir my heart" is one of my favorites but doesn't seem to be available. (I guess I just have to work it out myself--perhaps a valuable exercise ) Thanks again. John Anderson

Connie September 06, 2009 • 09:19 PM

Hi Sara, I came to know about you by how much Bethany Dillon talks about you. I have never listened to your music but I will when I am able to purchase cd's again. I was born and raised in Kenya...., I have seen both worlds..., of living in the land of plenty and living in the country. And even when I was in Kenya, I did live both in the city and had the lifestyle like in the us, but also spent tons of time in the country with my grandparents. At my grandparents there was no running water, electricity etc.., we did it the typical true african style of using firewood for cookin, fetching river water, etc..., we farmed and and had animals so, we had plenty to eat etc....., I never felt that we were poor, it was fun and what I remember most is the relationship with my aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins..etc..., life was simple but it was beautiful...., and when back in the city.., it was about cars, and tv and media and latest fashion, and when I moved to the USA, I bought into the American dream of chasing wealth, neadless to say it left me broken and empty. I am still in the us, Married now to an American, and I do love your country, and I appreciate the conviniences, and opportunities, but through your work and others like you, I have realized that I was on the wrong track..., that my heart was caught up in wealth and stuff, but now I know better since I asked Jesus to come into my life. I understand when you say that in that simple life (like in Rwanda), there is beauty, the humbleness of the people is something money cannot buy. Sometimes I feel terrible, to have grown and lived in Africa, and then came to the land of plenty, and forgot how simple life was back then.. How come the ones who know, and have lived the life..., do nothing to give back when they come here. ??, I see so many of us..., here in the Us.., all chasing the American dream, and then see people like you..., going back to give our own people.., I understand the condition of the heart is between a person and God, but I know I want to do something..., to help those I left behind.., for I have been given more than enough, and it's time I gave back... God Bless you and your family... Connie

Frank September 04, 2009 • 11:13 AM

Hi I am very encouraged by your song 'Less like scars' - the more I read the words the more encouraged I am. Its a deeply giving song, and honours how the Lord God works in the lives of His people. in the good Lord! Frank - London, UK

shekaina September 04, 2009 • 06:59 AM

hi sara...i love your songs..keep it up!:)

erika chambers September 02, 2009 • 11:58 PM

Nearly a decade ago (when I was 19), I spent half a year in rural Kenya, living among the people and serving. I was young and idealistic and expected the "Halleluiah Chorus" to play throughout each day as I "did the Lord's work". I planned to save the world in six months. But no matter how much I did, how hard I worked, I couldn't seem to make a dent in the problem. The guy I prayed for still had leprosy, my Kenyan teammate and his wife still died of AIDS, the kids were still hungry, their cries still haunted me. I came back to America angry, and I stayed that way for a long time. Along the way, I became a songwriter and began to process it all through music and a deepened relationship with God. I feel like I've written the same "I don't understand, but You're still faithful" song over and over again, but maybe I need to. A few weeks ago. "I saw what I saw" came on my internet station at work, and I froze. Suddenly, all the images and emotions of Kenya rushed over me again. I was hearing the song I've been trying to write for ten years. At that moment, I had no idea that it was inspired by your time in Africa. Tonight I watched the video, and could't believe it. I was watching myself. But you had a defiant hopefulness in your eyes that I had lost somehow. Right now I'm finishing a record full of songs inspired by stories of beauty birthed from tragedy. "I saw what I saw", along with the rest of the songs on "Tell me what you know" is giving me that final push of inspiration, and helping me continue the healing process. I will enter the chorus of "thank you sara" in the hope that each voice and story represented in this guestbook provides the tiniest glimpse into the impact you are making throughout the world. I hope I can thank you in person someday. Love, Erika.

Siri September 01, 2009 • 12:25 PM

Hi Sara: I know that you do not have a chance to read these often, but I wanted to share anyway, and perhaps this will reach you in some form and will be an encouragement. Your music has been a great grace in my life. It dares to address the shadows honestly. It is filled with hope, but it also leaves room for the possibility that in the complexity of just being human, a person can simultaneously have deep faith and experience deep grief. The message is always: God is with us and loves us fiercely, as we are, in all places and all journeys. That is grace. I am currently a therapeutic writing facilitator, and I work with people who are struggling through grief, loss, trauma and/or depression. Good, clear, honest poems, along with participants' own writing and sharing from week to week, have this amazing ability to tap wells of unexpressed emotion, to help people gain clarity in the face of overwhelming situations, and eventually can help them forge a way to hope and peace and healing. I have planned a course series at my church that will use your music as the work (the poetry!) to which class participants will respond and produce their own writing each week. Your music is such a balm; it provides both a place where people can identify their own sorrows AND a place where they can look for profound peace and abiding hope. I thank you for this gift. I know that you were not always a full-time musician, and that choosing to do that probably took some courage on your part. But you have given people something that they can take with them everywhere, a thing that lives and grows and brings great and unexpected beauty to difficult times. You being who you were made to be and doing the thing you were meant to do -- that, as Frederick Buechner says, is where your deep gladness meets the world's deep need. I have no doubt you are living a life in response to a call. Keep doing that, okay? The world really needs it. With much respect, Siri M., Minneapolis

Kaiti August 31, 2009 • 07:00 AM

Just was blessed viewing your Tangle.com video on LA and Rowanda. I live in Houston. Please get in touch with me when God leads you to go on another mission. I would like to join you and support you. Blessings to you.

Sean August 31, 2009 • 12:19 AM

Sara I am not a Christian (I am Jewish), but your music speaks to all and is beautiful. It is very spiritual and reaches beyond as it speaks a humanity that all can enjoy and relate to. Many thanks for providing inspiring lyrics and keep up the wonderful work! Sean

Susan VanderLee August 30, 2009 • 02:18 PM

On August 18th I was fortunate to sit beside a young lady that was on the same plane as me flying to Minnesota. We had a great visit and most of all discouvered we were both Christ Followers. She told me that she was part of your music group. I had never heard of you, sorry, but when I told my daughter she knew all about you and what a great singer you are. She hears you in Orlando on Z88.3. I rarely listen to that station as I have another Christian station I listen to. I will try to listen to your music. Thank you for serving our Savior with the talent God gave you. Susan

Maggie August 30, 2009 • 11:48 AM

Sara, Thank you so much for all of the work you do. Your songs have been inspiring and comforting in my life as well as so many others. I am a member of a small christian denomination (Christadelphian - meaning Brethren in Christ) in Richmond Virginia with a congregation around 100 and the youth group is organizing a fundraiser for a non profit organization that does work in South America (www.cmadfa.com) and I was wondering if you would be interested in getting involved or even any advice you could offer would be so helpful. Thanks so much! Godbless!

Amy August 30, 2009 • 08:47 AM

We went to the Packinghouse last night to hear you. I'm so glad you got to play so many songs! I was very moved and enjoyed it so much. thank you!

Doug Gresham August 29, 2009 • 05:05 PM

Hi Sarah, Troy has my card but somehow I forgot to get your email address. Things are going well on the Dawn Treader shoot and I am in my motorhome listening to you to keep the Sunday Holy. Drop me a line to let me know how you all are. Blessings to all, Doug.

Vicki August 28, 2009 • 12:11 PM

Dear Sara ... Just a quick note to thank you for pressing in and sharing the gift that God has given you. Over the years I have been compelled and propelled forward by the "deep and wide" messages from your writing and the music accompanying the words. I am involved in a ministry to women. It is our vision to ignite a passion and impart a determined pursuit in and through them to walk their journey .... intentionally ... with Jesus. As I was seeking the Lord about the next four months of 1st Saturdays mini-retreats, He directed me to your song: When the Saints. We are in the process of building our four Saturdays around the four people/ministries you wrote about in this song. Tomorrow is our first one ... the underground railroad. We will focus on Harriet Tubman and will parallel the lesson with Moses and the exodus from Egypt. You have blessed me in ways that words simply cannot express. Again, with gratitude, I thank you dear sister-in-Christ! Blessings, Vicki Westminster, Colorado

Charles Hoffman August 27, 2009 • 08:24 AM

Love your work kid!!

Hannah August 26, 2009 • 04:01 PM

Sara... I LUV YOU MUSIC!!! My teacher plays your music everytime we do art. You have inspired me to do A LOT with my life!!! ...and I am truly thankful! :) I hope your missions go well for you!!!!! Thanks.

Lenice August 25, 2009 • 09:56 AM

I heard a single of yours about 8 years ago, had to go and purchase the entire CD. I loved every single track. Your lyrics are poetic and touching they cry and echo to this lover of words. I am now a fan...continue to do what you do, as unabashed as the industry will allow! May God continue to bless you through his precious son Jesus!

Wayne August 24, 2009 • 02:39 PM

Hi Sara and crew. Thank you for your music, your message and your spirit. I pastor a small and apparently failing church and I share your music with them often during service and it always leads us to more sincere worship. In November when our difficult times started I played 'When the Saints' over several times as we marched around the sanctuary seven times to claim the church as the house of God and to affirm our trust in His leadership and to assert our certain victory over the evil and disharmony that fights so hard to take joy and peace out of the world. I believe that as long as we honor God and lift up Jesus that we will come through this difficult time. I also know with certainty that your music and spirit has been as a cup of cold water on our journey. be in peace, Pastor Wayne

... August 22, 2009 • 10:07 PM

I j/ wanna tell u dat ur song, "he's always been faithfull" is an amazing song. It touched my heart caz it reminded me of my mom, she passed away w/ cancer couple of months ago. We made a video of her for da funeral and dis was song we put.. She went thru a lot in her life, 1 and half yr of pain but I nvr heard her complaing once. She always used to say god has always been faithful. Thank u for the song! God bless you!

Therese August 22, 2009 • 06:12 PM

Sara - you are SUCH a gifted woman of God! I absolutely LOVE your music/lyrics. It is SO refreshing to hear such truth about the human condition and our struggles here on this side of heaven. I know that God's hand is upon you and your family. May you NEVER grow weary of well doing....... God bless your family and your ministry.

Gigi Buhrow August 22, 2009 • 04:26 PM

Hi Sara, Your music inspires me. Thanks for your honesty, encouragement and challenging messages. I am a retired youth minister and past owner of a Christian gift store. Right now, I am in a transition period of my life. I have some creative ideas (inspired by one of your songs) that I would like to talk to you about. Please email me; I would love to share my ideas with you. Gigi Buhrow Hot Springs, AR

Melissa August 20, 2009 • 04:33 PM

hey sara i luv ur music ur very talented n pretty 2 dnt 4get dat god luvs you take care and GOD BLESS YOU

Craig Capdepon August 19, 2009 • 08:36 AM

Thanks for the beautiful music. I play worship three times a week in a large church. I thank God for the christian song writers.

Angela Best August 18, 2009 • 05:55 AM

Sara, From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank you for writing such "simple" yet inspirational lyrics! Your songs speak to me as soon as the first line is sung. One of my favorites that you sing is 'First Song that I Sing.' My love for God runs deep and I am thankful for every moment He gives me, which is why years ago I pledged to sing His praise as soon as I open my eyes. When I heard this song, I wanted to cry! It's exactly what I seek to do!..."before my feet hit the floor, I'll praise you, Lord..." Amen! This morning, I praised Him, and came to my computer and played the song and sang it just for my Creator:) My second favorite is 'How is it Between Us.' The words are powerful and states exactly how I feel at times. I'm miserable, yet shouldn't be until I stop and reflect that I haven't spent time with Him in deep worship and prayer. Thank you, Sara! I pray that you stay encouraged, and that you remain true to the way you write and present your music; not getting caught up into what's the popular thing. It's discouraging to see Christian music gets caught up into what will sell, so the songs lose substance because they're hyped up with a catchy beat and lyrics that offer no message. There's an anointing in your music, Sara so what else is needed? :) God bless you and your family! Sincerely, Angela Best Cincinnati, OH

Scott Bjorke August 17, 2009 • 09:14 AM

Hello, Sara. I want to share with you a story of how your music made a big impact on me... Last week I went to California for a niece's wedding. While there, I added two days to explore Sequoia and King's Canyon National parks. The day before my trip, however, back in Minnesota, as my pre-trip excitement was building, I had my iPod on 'shuffle' while in the car. It played "He's Always Been Faithful To Me", although I had never heard it before (my wife had bought the CD and my iPod has all our combined music on it). WOW. That song really spoke to me! I've always loved "Great is Thy Faithfulness", but what a wonderful 'take' on that song! Listening to it, I was covered in goosebumps. I decided to make that song my trip's theme while exploring and hiking God's incredible nature out west. In fact, I listened to your "Conversations" and "All Right Here" albums constantly during my stay -- and I loved every minute of it. Your voice, the arrangements, and the message are truly wonderful. I will always remember how your music filled my trip with many "God moments". Thank you for sharing your gifts with the rest of us. Your voice is beautiful, and I pray you will continue your ministry speaking to the rest of us through wonderful song. God Bless, Scott Bjorke Maple Grove, MN PS I see you will be here in December -- you bet I'll be there along with my wife and two daughters!! PPS Perhaps one day you'll visit Sequoia or King's Canyon National parks. If you do, I pray you will have as great an experience as I did! I can recommend two great albums for you to listen to, as well! ;)

Marie August 17, 2009 • 08:35 AM

Your song, "He's Always Been Faithful", is perhaps my all-time favorite Christian song. I was introduced to it by my kids' ballet teacher who makes it a point to be very Christ-centered in her classes. She picks Christian songs for the kids to dance to for their "recitals" (they are performances at Nursing Homes)every semester. A year ago, your song was the song the big girls' group danced to. It's been my favorite since. Not only that, when I asked my husband to listen to it, it has become his top favorite too! We heard it again on the radio yesterday on our way to church and sure enough, we teared up again! We've decided that that song will be played at our memorial services. It is truly a profound anthem for any grateful Christian. Thank you for the ispiration!

christy perez August 16, 2009 • 08:12 PM

I came across your song 'I saw what I saw' on youtube while I was looking for a piece to perform at a ministry/coffee house event in our church. We hold the event every 3 months to raise money for local ministries - this particular time it was a ministry that packs backpacks full of food for children to take home from school on the weekend (because school meals are the only ones they eat otherwise). This right in our own backyard. Your song 'cut me to the soul' and fit so perfectly. I am so blessed to have found it. Thank you for such an awesome reminder of what's important in this life. You are an incredibly gifted writer/composer. I realize that you have little time to respond to people, I have 3 children as well and completely understand. If by chance you read this and have any suggestions or pointers for a new composer such as myself, I would love to hear it. May God continue to bless your ministry!

cyndi August 16, 2009 • 11:29 AM

i am truly blessed by your words and inspirations.thanks

Cindy Prouty August 15, 2009 • 10:18 PM

Sara, You stayed with us at the New Life Guest House in Rwanda. I was trying to find the Christianity Today article that was to be published in August 2009 about artists such as yourself involved in social justice work. Has it been published? Can you direct me to a link. Thanks, Cindy

John August 15, 2009 • 06:22 PM

Your version of Angels watching over me is the way I remember my Grandmother singing it to me as a child. You should make "Station Wagon" available on Itunes as your other albums are.

Kathy in Orlando August 15, 2009 • 03:03 PM

Sara- I just wanted to thank you for your beautiful gift you gave to all who were @ Northland this weekend. You not only touched me as a beautiful singer, songwriter & musician, but you have an amazing way with words. Thank you for making this weekend a very memorable & cherished time for me. I am just beginning to re-connect with my God. It is people like you who help me see that God is and always will be very real.

Gina in GA August 15, 2009 • 09:06 AM

Just wanted you to know that i am now regularly checking the site for news about this new album i've heard bits and pieces about. Our family is eagerly anticipating it's release! Much has happened in our lives since the last album and we look forward to hearing what He has done in yours! God's blessings on your family! We love y'all in Jesus.

Gene August 14, 2009 • 08:04 PM

:D God guild sis~Exo 15:2

Alison August 14, 2009 • 05:57 AM

Hello Sara, I just wanted to say that I am thankful for the way God is still using your music to speak truth into my life. I am thankful for the gifts of creativity, language, musicianship, and compassion that he has given you. The past year has been a huge year of transformation for me. After 23 years of living in denial, I was finally able to admit that my dad is an alcoholic. I started seeing a Christian counselor last year to process through family brokeness. Working through these issues is really really hard, harder than I expected. There are times where I think about how much easier things seemed when I lived in denial. But your music from "Conversations", especially "Painting Pictures of Egypt", have really spoken to me, encouraging me to keep pressing into the Lord for healing, even though my "Egypt" sometimes seems so much better. Thank you for following the Lord and using the gifts he has given you! Alison

Charlie Thiel August 12, 2009 • 11:51 PM

Sarah, Hi, I love your music and I loved talking with you in the lobby of Cornerstone Fellowship Church when you did your concert there earlier this year. Keep up the good work, and hang in there with your kids. Every day is a new experience, even when they hit their late teens and 20s.

Sena Treadway August 11, 2009 • 09:20 AM

I want to first say God has blessed you with a beautiful voice and I'm so glad you've chosen to use it for his glory. Your songs are very moving and I'm saddened that those songs are not available as accompaniment tracks to share with congregations of people that need to hear your message, especially the song from your latest cd, "When the Saints". Great lyrics. Please reconsider so that your message and songs can reach more people.

Laura Baillie August 09, 2009 • 07:32 PM

Sara I wanted to thank you for being faithful to share the message He's given you. I can only imagine, as a homeschooling mother of 3 myself, what it costs you(and how He blesses you)... All your songs that I've heard, especially "You Did That For Me" and "Hiding Place" mean so much to me. I was pregnant with my son when I found out I had breast cancer(3 years ago) and He carried us through all that and gave me so much to hold onto. So I couldn't just keep that to myself and I started a blog on Blogger called "Somewhere Beyond the C......" to try and share what He did for us...when I was looking for music to put on there, several of your songs jumped out at me... Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!! God bless you and your family! much love, Laura

Shaun August 08, 2009 • 05:57 AM

Dear Sara, I just felt like looking up your website to see if there was some type of guest page and here it is. I just went on a walk down the beach at the end of a family vacation feeling a bit down about a few things looking for some inspiration and one of your songs came into my head so I put on your add to the beauty album and just started crying during the first song. My family has been through a lot and Gods mighty hand of grace and mercy has brought us through but I cant say put in to words the sense of healing hope and Gods love that just came over me and so I wanted to say thank you for your beautiful and real songs that God gives you. Also, I just graduated from nursing school and went on a healthcare outreach project to central America and I also even explain how blessed encouraged and inspired I was by the I saw what I saw album. It got me through a 7.1 magnitude earthquake at 3:00 am driving around a village making sure people were ok singing in my head and crying "your courage asks me what am I afraid of and what am I made of". Anyways thank you. God bless. Shaun, MA

Melissa L. August 05, 2009 • 08:28 PM

I am a wife and mother of four children. Two girls and two boys. We love your music. The Lord has really used you to challenge us,encourage us. To make us laugh and even cry. Music is a huge part of our lives and we are thankful for the gift that God has given you. Our children are 8,6,4 and 10mos. The three older ones always yell "SARA GROVES" when one of your songs comes on in the car. We would love to see you come to the Augusta GA area again.

Carol Apple August 05, 2009 • 10:24 AM

Thank you for following your passion. Please know how you have touched my heart with Tell Me What You Know. I am moved by the sad inspiration from the atrocities in Rwanda and on a personal note. Your songs sing of hope, pain, listening and knowing. Again, blessings to you and your family for sharing your gift. Oh and HI to the loving Dads that report back to you! blessings.

Nancy Rowe August 01, 2009 • 02:31 PM

Hi Sara, Our Pastor just discovered your You Tube of "I saw what I saw"....from Africa. We are preparing to return to another Mission Trip to Maseno, Kenya in the fall...some of us for the 4th time. Our heart aches for the many orphans we work with in that area. We are even prayerfully considering putting up an orphanage there. But God has not provided the clear direction (or the funds yet). We are a rural congregation (Peace Lutheran, Baldwin WI) and are trying to make a difference. Your "You Tube" kindled the fire once again after some had gotten discouraged due to trouble fundraising. But just as you saw....so did we.....And we cannot forget those precious faces. If you were ever able to visit us on a Sunday in Baldwin, we would love to have you at a church service. YOUR MUSIC IS INSPIRING!!! Keep up the good work. God is using you! Blessings... Nancy Rowe and the Kenya Mission Team of Peace Lutheran, Baldwin WI.

Jessamy Irwin-Clark August 01, 2009 • 07:39 AM

Hi there- I am a professional painter from the UK and I wanted to get in touch as I have just painted a Self-portrait as the Moon. Sara's song (You are the Sun) has captured my imagination for a while and a few months ago someone had a prophetic picture of my face as though in the moon, this confirmed to me that I must paint this image that had for so long been lodged in my heart and mind. The painting is now part of a prestigious art competition and I pray that it will cause many people to recognize that they themselves are mere cold, hard stone without the Father's life-giving light and love. I would love to share the image with you and could email a photograph if you'd like (but I don't have an email add for you). Thanks and blessings- Jess

Karrington Spann July 30, 2009 • 08:12 PM

Sara, I first discovered your music when I was only 9. I fell in love with your heart felt lyric, sold foundation in Christ, and the beautiful sound of your piano. I was able to share your music with my grandfather and he too became so fascinated by the intricate songs you write. He is actually quite hard of hearing but still has a love for song. What I find awesome, is that he enjoys your music because he can truly understand what you're saying. Though this may seem quite ridiculous. It's realy a been a blessing for him to have an artist he can listen to that sings with clarity and simplicity. W My grandpa and I have always been close but listening to your music and sharing the love for it has even brought us closer. I now live overseas, in Madagascar. I've been living there for 6 years. Through the years I have found that whenever I am distraught and am somewhat "homesick" (or family sick, I would say), listening to your CD's just gives me a peace. The Lord has used your songs is POWERFUL ways. Anyways, comging back to the U.S. and popping in your cd in the car while driving with my Grandpa, is just a reminder of how constantly faithful the Lord has been, is and always will be. So thank you. Thank you for your gorgeous heart, taht radiates through each and everyone of your songs. It's a rare jewel in this crazy hypocritical media world we live in. Thank you for your solid faith in our Savior and how preciously it's been displayed in each album. Tahnk you for your humility, again, a rare virtue found today. You are beautifully and wonderfully made. at His feet, Karrington Spann

thea July 30, 2009 • 07:09 PM

Sara, I loved your music since your first CD. I am always amazed by how profound and true your music is. I have a huge tendency to list to the same album (of yours) for months at a time. Today, while driving for an extended time, I listened to conversations several times through. Your work speaks to and resonates with my soul. Thank you. I am very interested in what you use for devotionals/spiritual growth. I checked your sight and am going to look into the books you mentioned for inspiration. Obviously God's Word is living and active in and of itself, but I appreciate the insights of believers who are so actively producing fruit. If you ever have a few moments to post any devotionals that you have found, I will count it as a blessing. As it stands, please know that God has ministered to me through you more times than I can count. Thank you for your service to Him.

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Bethany Faulkner July 29, 2009 • 08:50 AM

Sara, I just wanted to tell you how much your song "It's going to be alright" on the CD Add to the Beauty CD means to me. It truly speaks to me. Thank you.

michael zaruba July 29, 2009 • 08:49 AM

been waiting forever to see you play here in the valley. how can i be included in watching you perform in Scottsdale

laura f. wise July 28, 2009 • 11:19 PM

Sara, your music never grows old. Thank you very much for sharing your gifts with the world to add to His Kingdom. Your voice, music, stories, and testimony hold a bright spot in my heart. Thank you! May our Lord and King give you peace and grace.

Christian July 28, 2009 • 04:56 PM

Dear Sara, I sat here tonight putting your CDs on my computer to take with me when I return overseas. I came across a message you wrote to me on the cover of "Another Side of Something" that a friend sent me overseas. Then a pop up from one of your CDs came onto my screen which led me to your website where I read how God has been working in your life the past few years. I haven't heard your new album but I was touched by your heart. I don't really feel comfortable writing in a public domain, but I felt the Lord nudging me to write. I have been in the USA for the past 2 years caring for my dad with brain cancer. He died in April and so now I will continue on in the work God has called me to. I work for a mission organization, serving in Austria with refugees from war torn countries. As I read your story and how God has been expanding your heart, I felt led to ask and invite you to join in prayer and possibly giving to this work. What we are a part of seems to resonate with what you described. I imagine you are busy with your kids, music and probably have many requests. I've never done this before. I praise God for what He is doing in you.

Marlene Stank July 28, 2009 • 10:46 AM

Sara, I heard one of your older songs on Revive our Hearts today. It was just what I needed. I am a mother of five, a fulltime college student, a widow (of suicide) and I have MS. I had been losing sight of the faithfulness of God. I do not understand what good He plans to work out of all of this, but your song and your blog about your latest album remind me again that He uses suffering. I am looking forward to hearing your new album!

Ryan Trisler July 25, 2009 • 07:15 PM

Thank you for everything, your music had a knack for coming on when I was in the midst of breaking down. It then helped me though with the truth and love that is stored within in your songs. Thank you!

Meagan July 25, 2009 • 09:28 AM

My dad has pastored our tiny church for 20 years, and recently went on sabbatical because he was discouraged, burnt out, and depressed. We had the pleasure of joining you in worship at a conference in Oakland, CA a few months ago (Doing Church 09) and bought several of your CDs. We have since talked about all he is learning about God's unconditional love for him, and how while the messages he reads in his theology books change over the years, depending on the times, he has consistently seen God's love shine through music and art, regardless of the decade. Your music was one of the things he mentioned. He is more hopeful now than I have ever seen him!

Sherry July 23, 2009 • 07:08 PM

Come back to Dallas - pleeeeease! Your songs are like a salve on my soul.

Corrie Rose July 22, 2009 • 07:56 PM

I was reading some previous entries and saw mentioned that you were in Toronto recently! I want to cry because I live less than an hour away from Queensway Cathedral and if I had only known I would have been there in a heartbeat! My husband checks the tour schedule diligently (he's more the computer guy) to see if you will be performing within driving distance of us. Your songwriting and voice resonate deeply within me. I know it can only come from God! I am a singer by nature but I could only pray for the ability to write such inspiring, meaningful music. I am trying to figure out how God wants me to use my voice to honour him. At the moment that means singing to my own children and for the cradle roll class at church and for the children I provide daycare for. I have also sung at a few weddings and both grandfathers funerals. Most recently I sang "Fly" at a close friends wedding. I was so excited to finally have an opportunity to sing one of your songs. I am a huge advocate for your music and am always telling people they need to buy your music!!! I respect you deeply for your humanitrian efforts and I know without a doubt that you are making a difference in the world!!!!

Carissa July 21, 2009 • 04:03 PM

Please oh please oh please come to Nashville with your Christmas tour!!

Mary Hull July 20, 2009 • 08:07 PM

hello mrs. sara groves. just wanted to say i love your music and lyrics. I'm 16 years old and some friends of mine gave me 2 of your cds after they heard me sing an orginal song at a church service. they said i write like you. whereas most of the songs are based on fictional storys that demonstrate God's love,faithfulness, strength, and so much more. I am honored that people would think of me being at all like you. thank you for using your gift for Christ. you are a wonderful model for girls and woman to follow.

Cameron July 20, 2009 • 04:47 PM

Recently I have been deeply saddened by all of the things I don't know. But after hearing "What Do I know" I was reminded of the things I do know for certain, and I was reminded of a promise that a man gave over 2,000 years ago. He said "come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." Thank you for your words of encouragement, your music, and sharing your faith with others.

Rick Smith July 19, 2009 • 09:51 PM

A young lady who is a great Christian introduced me to your music by singing "When The Saints" at the church we attend in Mountain Home, Arkansas. She sung it with such intensity and conviction I had to know more about Sara Groves and the song. I just want to thank you for loving God and sharing through your music and website. I like your thoughts on the "Spiritual Buffalo" also. Keep up the Good Work. May God bless and keep through all eternity. RS

dawn marie renaker July 19, 2009 • 05:25 PM

Wow, you are an inspiration to so many. I love to hear your music on our power 88 radio station in ph. Our pastors daughter sings and plays your music on the piano.. I must say she has an awesome voice.. She brings your song music to life.. Thank you...

Lindsay July 19, 2009 • 05:18 PM

Thank you for being such an inspiration! God Bless you & yours

Seth Piller July 17, 2009 • 08:25 PM

Dear Sara, Thank Thank You for recording Love Is A Worthy Cause. That song really miniters to me. That song is so powerful. Keep up the awesome songs and the awesome music. You are a blessing to all of your fans. God Bless You! Take Care Sara! Love, Seth Piller Your Friend and Spirit Nephew

Charles Agyeman July 16, 2009 • 08:20 PM

Hi Sarah, I want to acknowledge the gift of God through you unto all mankind. You make some of the most core-touching music I have ever heard and I'm not even American! Your music strikes a chord which seems to resonate with the very essence of our humaness and search for God. Your music brings tears to my eyes whenever I listen meditatively alone, it challenges me to love to hope to persevere to trust and to believe. God bless you!

Joseph July 15, 2009 • 09:36 PM

Sara. I read your post on the 700 Club tonight. Do not "swallow the sovereignty pill", as you put it. The doctrine of God's sovereignty has been distorted by the church in a dangerous manner. Yes, God is sovereign, but not in the sense that everything that happens in a Christian's life is because it is God's sovereign will. There are choices we make that affect the outcomes on this earth. The way that God's sovereignty really works is this: You seek God for a promise that you care about and need fulfilling in your life. You seek Him through His Word. Afterwards, once you have received the assurance that God will perform what He has promised, nothing will prevent it from being carried out, because of God's sovereign power. Do you see the difference? Let's look at a practical example. You mmentioned that you are concerned about your children's safety. Set out to seek out promises in God's Word which will secure their safety. Promises in God's Word in this regard include: Isaiah 49: 25b "... for I will contend with them that contend with thee and I will SAVE THY CHILDREN." Psalm 115: 14 "The Lord shall increase you more and more, YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN." Jeremiah 32: 37,39 "... I will cause them to dwell safely ... for the good of them, and of THEIR CHILDREN after them." Proverbs 14:26 "He who fears the LORD has a secure fortress, and for his CHILDREN IT WILL BE A REFUGE." Don't pass over these promises. They are yours but you have to SEEK God diligently until you know God has spoken them for you and over your children. See Jeremiah 32: 42 ("promises") and Jeremiah 33:14, and then know that what God has declared WILL COME TO PASS! Isaiah 44:8 "Have not I told thee from that time and have declared it?" Once God declares His promises over your life, it is done, and God's sovereignty (His power) will not permit any devil, circumstance, person, to preclude His promise from coming to pass. That is the real definition of God's sovereignty, not this CHURCHY doctrine that has sentenced alot of Christians to accept painful circumstances that He never intended for them to experience. In relation to the example of Job that you referred to in your article, remember His children were adults, not kids. Job 1 makes it clear they had theit own houses, so don't sweat the Job example. If they were as upright as Job, Satan would not have been able to destroy them any more than he could Job knowing that "God is not a respecter of persons." (Romans 2:11) I was on the same journey as you were once not knowing whether I could cross the street and be hit by a car in an act of "God's sovereignty". It is a very destructive doctrine and the only way you are going to be delivered from it is by going against the flow, and being unpopular with Christians, as it entails knowing that not all of us are aggressively pursuing Christ with all of our hearts. (i.e., Knowing that He will reward us for doing so). Hang in there kiddo ... Help is on the way if you are willing to try. There will be difficult times in pursuing this course as what you see around you for quite a while will look like mothing is happening, but know that what God has promised He will bring to pass! So don't lose heart! You have one person who has passed through this fire already (ME!) and am consistently experiencing God's deliverance in my life as a result of it. I came close to losing my wife, my children, my marriage, but none of it transpired because I had a friend who kept prodding me to keep seeking God through Christ and His Word for deliverance (for a period of years in some cases), otherwise I would have given up hope. I have experienced what I am telling you. It is the real thing! What the church offers in this regard (being a part of the church, I know), is a dead end. I came to that dead end and sought God hard to break free and determine what God's promises really said. The answer is to seek your guts out for God in this area. It will be the difference between personal tragedy and disaster or God's preservation and deliverance. I have run out of space. God bless you in your endeavours. Much love in Christ, your brother from Canada! Please e-mail if you are diretced to do so. I hope that you father or father-in-law does not delete this message but forward it on to you even if they disagree with what is said. Let's pray they do.

Eleanor Stirling July 15, 2009 • 01:05 PM

Hi Sara, I just wanted to thank you for serving God in the ministry He's given you - I only discovered your music a fortnight ago but just one CD (The Other Side of Something) has touched my heart greatly. I was listening for the first time on my headphones at work, and it got to the song "Esther" and I found myself in tears! I can't even explain why, except to say that the Lord has been laying Africa on my heart too, and that I have been really praying about what He wants me to do - right now I pray and give but I'm sort of poised on the edge of my normal working life waiting a call to something more practical in terms of working for the Lord. Anyway having read the "About Sara" section I've been in tears again (I'm not usually like this!!) and am so thrilled to hear about your work with IJM and around the world; I relate to your desire to get more involved in the lives of those who are suffering, whom God has put us in a position to help. I know you don't read these entries much but if you do, please can you tell me if Esther is still working in Africa? And if I can find out more about her work? I would like to at least pray, in response to her call for help - it may have been from 2003 but I bet there's still work going on that needs prayer today. I would like to do what I can. Thank you for drawing our attention to those in need - I'm going to get your latest album too - I'll be praying for your continued work and I thank God for your heart for Him! May He richly bless you and your family and may He bless the work of your hands as you continue in His service.

Ed Levash July 14, 2009 • 08:03 PM

Dear Sara, I love you and your message... I enjoyed you in concert last April in Wyckoff, NJ. Sadly, I don't see - on your concert schedule - that you'll be returning to NJ or New York City, at least in the near future. Well, so long for now. Keep up the good work. God bless you... Sincerely yours, Ed Levash, a wonderful New Jersey fan!

cesiah July 13, 2009 • 03:11 PM

hi !!! i've heard ur music and its realy really great i love it specially it might be hope God gave u a talent keep going blessings

Norma Nichols July 13, 2009 • 07:45 AM

My name is Norma, and I will be singing your one of your songs while a young woman, named Leenie, 20 years old, will be dancing as her spiritual gift and ministry to the seekers who come to worship on July 26th. Leenie has chosen to go into ministry, because Jesus has become so a part of her heart. And her dancing is an extension of her passion for Christ. She dances as only young people can...with vibrance, and energy, and with a lifesource that only comes from the soul. I wish you could see her express your song...it brings tears to my eyes, I can only imagine how it would touch your heart. May God continue to bless you and your music. Norma

Carl irving July 13, 2009 • 04:17 AM

I heard Sara sing in a church somewhere? It had the lyrics "sinner come home" in the song. can I get a recording of this. I would love a copy and think maybe she should put it on her album? hopefully a new one soon. However its as the lord wishes. Increase and Multiply the blessing in Saras life lord. Amen

Catherine July 11, 2009 • 06:43 PM

Hey Sara, I first heard your CD "Add to the Beauty" while working at a patient's home. Just want to let you know how inspiring the songs were: this is a toddler with very severe medical issues whose parents are big fans. They have all your CDs and it's really great listening to your songs during work. Sometimes during trying times, I'd find myself listening to "How it matters" and feeling better. So I hope you know that even if/when you don't feel it, God is working through you. Thanks!

Chris Finley July 08, 2009 • 08:54 AM

Sara, I stumbled upon you while looking for a video of Rwanda to show at a piano concert at our church. (We're taking a team to Gisenyi Rwnada next June). I found "I saw what I saw". What a beautiful song and video. I think the audience was stunned and some wept as we watched. Many were moved to give deeply and we recieved the gift of 3 additonal team members that night that just happened to meet one of our most pressing needs for the team, a doctor with mission and obstetrical experience. Thak you Sara and God Bless. Chris

tim selph July 02, 2009 • 02:39 PM

dear Sara, thank you so much for your songs that you do.the cd conversations is so good. keep up the good work. Tim and Susan Selph.

Ryan Prendergast and Katie Movic July 02, 2009 • 10:28 AM

Dear Sara, We're going to be getting married on September 26th of this year. We were looking for songs to use in the wedding and nothing was sticking out to us. We found lots of stuff that we could use, but... Then we started listening to some of your music. We've both been listening to your music for a while. And when we heard the song "Loving a Person" we really felt like that was it. We like that it is about the value of loving, and that at the same time it gives a realistic picture about the difficulty of love. We're looking for a way to get the sheet music for the song but have been unable to find it. We saw the songbook was on backorder and fear that it wouldn't be printed on time. Can you help us?

Margo Cameron June 29, 2009 • 04:22 PM

Hi Sara, Thank you for coming to Toronto for the Insight for Living Anniversary celebration.I met you Thursday night after the concert and shared Psalm 56:3 as I felt I'd been instructed to do. I realized I didn't articulate the impression that the verse was not a word of instruction, as much as an affirmation and acknowledgment of what you are already doing and God's pleasure in you. Two other things came to mind later. The first was John 16:33 from the Amplified Bible. "I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I have overcome the world. [I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you.]" The other is a poem/prayer that I was introduced to during a week of spiritual direction last year and that I now treasure. I hope both of these will be an encouragement to you. Above All,Trust in the Slow Work of God Pierre Teilhard De Chardin Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. Yet it is the law of all progress that is made by passing through some stages of instability and that may take a very long time. And so I think it is with you. Your ideas mature gradually. Let them grow. Let them shape themselves without undue haste. Do not try to force them on as though you could be today what time -- that is to say, grace -- and circumstances acting on your own good will will make you tomorrow. Only God could say what this new Spirit gradually forming in you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that his hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete. Above all, trust in the slow work of God, our loving vine-dresser. Amen.

Cassie-Marie June 28, 2009 • 01:07 AM

Hi Sara. I started listening to your music when I heard you at IJM's Global Prayer Gathering this year. I normally don't like "Christian" music because a lot of the time it's poorly done and there is no depth to the lyrics. But I just fell in love with your songs. Now I am in Latvia (Eastern Europe) for the summer and it has been a struggle. It is a very heavy place spiritually. As God continues to work on my heart He is helping me to fight for joy everyday.. It's a battle. And He has used three of your songs in particular to encourage me and see me through: Painting Pictures of Egypt, Add to the Beauty, and Why it Matters. I have listened to Why it Matters several times a day since I've been here to remind myself that I may not be able to change Latvia but every little thing that I do to reflect Jesus matters, even if it doesn't feel like it matters. It's easy to forget that, isn't it? It's interesting how much creativity and beauty can change and affect people. I have made films with some kids in a small town here for the past two years over Spring Break and now their teachers are saying that they are changing because of the film weeks. I think it's the creativity and beauty involved in film. God is using it to shape these kids. It's incredible. Anyways, I just wanted to share a little how your gift has been used this summer to encourage a terribly discouraged girl. Thanks. :)

Christina June 25, 2009 • 04:50 PM

Sara, I first heard you music at the Hearts at Home conference a few years ago. Your music spoke to me at that time, even before I know the plans God had for my future. Since then I have lost 2 babies, my most recent was a girl, Kaitlyn. She went to heaven on June 12, a year ago. Needless to say this has been a tough year of many ups and downs. I listen to you music almost daily, especially All Right Here. My favorites are Past the Scars, This Peace and Cannot Lose My Love. They have taken on a new meaning for me this year and now as I look back on this rough year I realize that your music was God's answer to so many prayers. The peace I received from these songs eased me to sleep, comforted me as I cried and took away the quiet when I sat awake all night. I want you to know the impact you have on people's lives and the special gift you are from God. Even though you do not know me you have touched my life in a way that I will never forget and I am certain that as I continue on God's path your music will continue to bless my life in ways the even I do not know yet. Christina

Judith Barnes June 24, 2009 • 12:20 PM

hello Sara I am 18 years old & live in England I've been brought up on your music I love it. Recently got "tell me what you know" It's a great CD. Your lyrics are always inspiring. My fave is probly "when the saints" lots of love xxxx

anne June 24, 2009 • 04:17 AM

Hey Sarah When are you coming to Australia? We love you down here! I am singing He's always Been Faithful to our seniors at church group soon.Beautiful song!! Godbless Anne- Sydney

Therese June 22, 2009 • 04:59 PM

Dear Sara & band members ~~ Wanted to THANK YOU VERY MUCH for the concert you gave us at the Desert Springs Church in Chandler, Arizona. Your songs touched my heart. . . I cried tears of joy when you began with "Add to the Beauty". It was nice to hear you sing in duet. Great Job! I've enjoyed you since August, 2003. I appreciated learning more about the Ride Well Bike Tour & their efforts for the blood:water mission. I was pleased to be a part of the donation. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!

Elli June 21, 2009 • 08:02 AM

I just want to thank you for your ministry and for using your gifts and talents to minister to the soul. I have listened and love your music for so many years and have always loved how your music tells a personal story that is close to your heart. Your volunerability is a beautiful thing. This year has been one of the most difficult years of my life, as I have experienced the death of my marriage. The healing changes are subtle, but I am so over come with the reality that God is here and he is picking up the pieces. I am so filled with gratitude that He is forever faithful. Thank you again.

Brandy Pensiero June 20, 2009 • 08:26 AM

Thank you for being an inspiration for devoting your life to Jesus Christ for being a light at the end of the tunnel for many who are still searching. Thank you for being a mom and having a heart for others. I am a mom as well and I have been through some traumatic times in my youth much in comparison to such stories you tell. I live in the USA but still these stories happen everyday. Thank you for being what I needed to hear today and thank God for allowing me to find your website.

Nathan Lapp June 19, 2009 • 03:58 AM

Dear Sara, Loving our enemies is not a popular subject anymore, by it's a concept taught throughout the New Testament by Jesus and early Christians. I'm really praying for and anticipating more songs from you on this. My wife and have a baby named after you; indeed our lives have been changed because of your incredible gift with words, and by your passionate but humble voice. We love your voice so much that we are hoping that your next album will go lighter on instruments than "Tell me what you know" so that we can just hear you better! Please, please don't allow instruments to drown out your beautiful voice!! May God bless and keep you... Love in Christ, Nathan & Marci, Harrisonburg, VA

Claire June 16, 2009 • 03:19 PM

Also, please do a song in Minneapolis, Minnesota soon, because I'm sure a lot of Minnesotans would like to have you have a concert there.

Claire June 16, 2009 • 03:12 PM

I am only a young teenager and all my friends are older than me. They don't understand how deep spirituality can go, and I am discovering it. They don't care about it. I have been listening to your songs since Conversations, The Word, Painting Pictures of Egypt, and so on. Your songs have helped me through times where I think no one understands me. I love your song When the Saints, and I cry every time I listen to it. It has such a powerful meaning in the words. You have such a gift with words. Often, I have to listen to your songs a few times before I find the hidden and deeper meaning in them. I thank you so much for doing something to show others about Christ. One of my friends doesn't know God, and I will definitely use your music to show her that there is a way to be loved. Thanks again and again.

Billiam June 16, 2009 • 01:47 PM

Thank you Sara, for so much tender sincerity in song and praise worship to our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS! It really comes through in your music, please don't ever change. William M. Combs, ER, RN, Kauai

Amelia June 15, 2009 • 07:25 PM

Sara, A couple months ago I heard that you were going to play a free concert in Franklin TN and Christ Community church. I was so excited, since you are well known to everyone as my favorite Christian Artist. I've tried to come see you for the last several years that you play in the Ryman in Nashville but it seems that something always doesn't work out and I don't get to go. At the time you played in Franklin I was nearly 39 weeks pregnant and my husband and I decided to take our other two kids (two and three years old) to see your concert as the last big family adventure before extended family came to town for the arrival of our new baby. So we first went to downtown Franklin and had ice cream at Baskin Robbins. When we got to your concert I settled in long enough to have a sentimental boohoo moment when you sang "You cannont loose my love". After about 10 minutes we had to leave because our kids were so wound up from the ice cream overload! It was impossible to keep them still and quiet, I felt kind of guilty that we gave them so much, but we were trying to have a special outing. So I missed my great chance to see you in concert. But I did end up with a beautiful baby boy about a week later. Now I also have two boys and a girl.

Dean Cameron June 15, 2009 • 05:15 PM

God gave me this song today. I would love for this to touch someone. 6/15/09 “You’re here” by Dean Cameron We fantasize of Rainbows A life we see so clear The Sunshine on our faces Your presence feels so near So many ways we praise You The Mountain Tops so dear We hope to do your will forever And pray our prayers You’ll always hear For in the quiet of our morning The ease of faith can be so fresh But as the time unfolds around me I see my constant humanness Chorus For this world has walls around us, confusion and unrest. Sometimes my life seems so unbalanced full of compromise and fear. But when the sky is filled with darkness, the clouds of doubt are all I see. The promise I hold on to keeps me anchored in stormy seas. For when I’m weak and tired and broken set apart from all the rest. The single message I can cling to……You’re here. This mile is too familiar I’ve travelled this before So many ways to serve the needs of Love How could I possibly do more But there’s a light off in the distance Growing stronger with each step The light of grace is there reminding me That I’ve never been my best So I’ll put myself in Your hands Leaving all I am to You Knowing in my heart of humanness Your awesome power will shine through Chorus

Sarah Webb June 15, 2009 • 11:11 AM

Sara, You are so inspiring to me. Ever since I saw your video from when you went to Rwanda I've been wanting to seek and know God more and more. I went on a missions trip last summer to Thailand and Cambodia, I felt the same way you did when you went on your trip. That feeling of Love from everyone, feeling so close to God and all that. I've been wanting that feeling back. It's just so amazing to go to other country's and see the love and openness they have for us and God. It is just so awesome how amazing God is. If you have a chance I would love to hear from you. I am very into photography so you could contact me through my myspace www.myspace.com/differentviewphotography Hope you have a GREAT week! God bless, - Sarah. ?

Seth Piller June 10, 2009 • 08:30 PM

Dear Sara, I have created a group for your fans on MyCCM. I hope that you don't mind that I did that on MyCCM. I know that you are a very busy musician. But, I would love to have you as my Aunt. I know that you & I live in two different states. But, would you please be my real aunt. God has been putting you on my heart for a reason and that's why. So, would you be my real aunt? Seth Piller Your Friend

Amy June 09, 2009 • 02:47 PM

Sara, I bought your cd Tell Me What You Know, before I ever heard a note of it. I was in a bookstore and saw it displayed at the counter. When I looked at Song for My Sons, I thought of my own two toddler boys and thought, "Could be a cool song." It turns out that the entire cd is part of my life soundtrack now. You know how songs just fit certain parts of your life? I am a schoolteacher at my alma mater, which is a struggling school. Sometimes I feel like I'm not making a difference--like I CAN'T make a difference. "The Long Defeat" gives me resolve to stay. "It's too heavy and impossible to leave." Also, my dear friend has an eight-year-old son with a rare cancer, and I ache for her as she watches him suffer. The first time I heard "It Might Be Hope" I pulled over to the side of the road to cry. Your words are powerful. Your message, hopeful. Your voice, beautiful. Thank you. Thank you. And once more, thank you. --Amy

Jenny June 09, 2009 • 07:54 AM

Sara- I saw you in concert about three years ago at my home church in Billings, MT. I remember most the story you told behind the song "when it was over". It's such a redemptive story and the lyrics that follow the verse in 1 Peter are so moving. I never thought I'd have a situation in my life that was so close to "when it was over" but I do now and through God's grace and the encouraging words of your song, my husband and I are hand in hand fighting for our marriage. Love truly covers over a multitude of things. Keep going Sara, if all your work only amounted to helping our family, it's been worth it. God bless your ministry

Jessica S. June 04, 2009 • 07:34 PM

Christ is so good, powerful, loving, merciful... We're going through a tough time with our Church and I often get off track or disillusioned - or second and third guess my role. Today, I put on the Nomad DVD Special Feature Concert and the first song was "You are the Sun." It is so true - the section about the Moon and who we are, so truthful even to point out the cold, dark night. I was thankful that God had provided support when I hadn't necessarily expected it. May he keep you strong to help others who are in places of weakness. May you continue to be open to the words He speaks to you, and may you continue to give words of truth - "Words to Live By" - to people in this world. God is Good!

Victoria June 04, 2009 • 01:30 PM

Dear Sara, I believe it is an awesome privilege to be able to write something, sing it, then move on to something else, and yet be able to look back and know that God continually uses what you have done to bless people. I'm wrestling with God right now. In between the bouts, I sit back and listen to your songs. If in the struggle I work out my faith, it is during my still moments that your songs encourage me to keep going. Thank you, for all you do, and for not just asking God what you can do for Him, but for living your life for Him.

GP June 02, 2009 • 10:23 PM

Hi Sara, My wife and I really love your God-given talents. We hope someday you can make it out to Southern California. We're in the San Bernardino area, but we'll go to Los Angeles, San Diego, or Palm Springs and any surrounding area to see you. Thanks, GP

Laurie Thornberg June 01, 2009 • 06:39 PM

My sister, Cathie, has a daughter going off to college. I went thru this 2 yrs. ago. Today I wrote her a letter telling her "I wish I could take you in my arms and hold you for as long as it takes for this pain to pass. I think somehow we were taught to hold and guard our children as close as humanly possible. To love them with all of our being - so we did." Before we know it, the nuturing years are gone . They push us away and leave our side for their furture. I told her how I understood what she was going thru. Having to let go of a child is never easy, whatever the reason. Lastly, I told her that " I love you and want to always hold you in my arms till the pain is past. Even if it's only in my mind -and prayers". I love your music and listen to it everyday. I'm reasonably certain that your own children have not yet left the nest. But someday you too will know what this is about. Everyday someone is holding someone in their arms (minds and prayers). I would be honored if you would consider this material for a song. If you do, God be with you. Thanks, Laurie Thornberg RNC

Clara K May 28, 2009 • 09:40 PM

Sara, I'm 17. I live in Memphis, TN. I go to church with people who love Christ, love the Gospel, love the Word, and just all around love people. I have an amazing legacy of faith in the body. I daily have older women discipling me, pouring into me, teaching me everything from what food babies can eat, to how to love your husband, to how to have time with the Lord even when you have four young kids. They have raised me, taught me how to pray in earnest, in faith, how to trust in the Promises of Christ. They are my mothers, I love them. They have taught me so much. One of these women, Megan Gale (she's amazing, she and her husband and baby girl are moving to Turkey next year as full time missionaries), shared your song "When the Saints" with me. How sweet! I had never before seen the body of Christ, the family of Saints that way before; to think I will meet Paul and Stephen and Timothy, and all the great Saints of the past! It made me think. I love to think. My favorite things about songs are the lyrics. WIthout good lyrics, a song is nothing, it's worthless, an trashy shell. After hearing that song, I bought "Tell Me What You Know." I love it. I love what it says. I especially love "The Long Defeat." Day after day, as I see the world failing around me despite my efforts and prayers, I remember the great Victory. I remember Christ. Anyway, needless to say I love your music. I love your lyrics. I have all your cds and know them all almost by heart. Recently I was offered a missions internship in Nicaragua. I want to do missions. I know that I exist, I breathe and wake up to tell the world about Christ. So, when I got this internship I was so beyond excited. I've been preparing for months. I leave in two days. But, when I think about it, about leaving my mom and my brother and my sisters in Christ and my church, I get really sad. Then I think about college, only a year away. I know I'll go away somewhere and then to the mission field. I won't have my church or my mom or my bed or my room. I won't have any of those things this summer in Nicaragua or later in life. That scares me. I can't live a mediocre life anymore. It's like in "Painting Pictures of Egypt," where it says "the places they used to fit me cannot hold the things I've learned." Or in "The Long Defeat" where it says "it's to heavy to carry and impossible to leave." That's how I feel right now. I can't go back, I can't leave who Christ is, what He's revealed to me, but I can't do it on my own. I am ruined. In a good way. I am ruined so that Christ alone may live in me, that He may be glorified mightily in my life. Praise God that he would do that with someone like me! Anyway, all that to say that your music encourages me so much. One of my closest sisters/mothers in Christ, Monica, and I talk about your lyrics as we do dishes and fold clothes (she's 32 with 2 children and one on the way). Your songs encourage us and call us out and up to who Christ is. In my silly, youthful way, I want to meet your some day, have coffee with you, watch you with your kids, see how you live this life. I hope that's not strange, but Monica and I both agree that you would be way cool to meet. Thank you for your ministry. I heard once that you weren't sure whether or not enter the music industry at first, but I'm so grateful you did! I pray blessing over your home, blessing over your children and your marriage, blessings over your ministry as you seek to help the lost and forgotten in the world through music and direct action (so cool by the way!). Thank you for setting such a godly example of faith for so many! And please have an amazing day! -Clara and if you ever feel like it, come to Memphis ;)

heather carufel May 28, 2009 • 12:20 PM

hey sara! I just watched one of your videos and it brought tears to my eyes. I have been an avid listener for many years now and I feel like your God inspired music continues to amaze and minister to me. Thank you for that! and when are you coming back to the good ol' state of MN?

Callie Wilburn May 28, 2009 • 12:03 PM

Hey Sara- Love, love, love your music! You can always take me back to a place of worship and thankfulness. I live in Colorado Springs and saw that you're going to be in Denver on July 5th. I saw that you're doing special music, but are you not doing a concert in the area? We would love to see you! Thanks! Callie

Lynne May 28, 2009 • 08:06 AM

Dear Sara, Thank you for writing and singing your songs. Listening to you sing has kept me going and given me hope, with just about every song saying something to me to help me be strong. I don't have any heroes here on earth, but if I did, you'd rate #1. Thank you.

Rosita May 27, 2009 • 04:59 PM

Dear Sara, the music in your heart comes directlty from the sky. My future husband (we will get married on the next 7th septmber) loves to pray with your music. So, I would like to make a surprise for him: a collection of music to heard during the wedding party. It is possible for you? If yes, which cd you should suggest to buy? Many thanks, our wonderful God bless all us, rosita

Debbie May 27, 2009 • 07:10 AM

Dear Sara- I have never done this before, but I wanted to tell you how much we appreciate your music. My husband passed away February 4, 2009, suddenly at age 38, leaving me to care for our little girls, ages 3 and 1 (Elyse and Jenna). My sister-in-law, Jeannine and I have been putting together picture slideshows of John, and your music has been a part of that. We commented on how beautiful the lyrics are, and how many of the songs so perfect for us right now. Sincerely, Debbie

a hatcher May 26, 2009 • 10:59 AM

Sara,will I get an answer to my question posted on 25th may or is the guestbook just for comments. Many thanks A.H

Barry Frazier May 25, 2009 • 04:12 PM

Hi, Sara...I've been a big fan, since your Conversations album. My sister-in-law introduced me to you. She stumbled upon your music at a very difficult time in her life. She was living in Stony Brook, Long Island, the wife of wonderful Christian educator at a college prep school. He was recovering from grade 4 glioblastoma brain cancer...he had lived about 3 years past the doctor's prognosis of a few weeks to months. The cancer came back without warning, and he was back fighting for his life. In the midst of chemo and radiation and other experimental drugs (they had never had someone with this form of cancer live more than a few months), they miraculously conceived a baby girl. She arrived just a short time after a subsequent emergency brain surgery. He was able to be there for the delivery, as he was embarking on relearning how to read and write. Ellie provided some much needed joy, as Jeff eventually went home to be with Jesus when she was just 11 months old. Six people gave their lives to Christ at his memorial service in response his remarkable testimony....not to mention all of the roommates, nurses, and doctors he witnessed to while in hospice. One of your songs in particular, "It's Going to be Alright" really ministered to Julie. Ellie became very familiar with that song, and one of her very first words was "alright", which see would say everytime she heard the chorus, almost as if she was reminding her mommy that there was cause for hope. Over the years, Julie has connected with your music in profound ways, as it seems like she was running on the some tracks as some of your life experiences. 3 years ago she moved back to her home state of Kentucky, and Ellie has blossomed into a beautiful and precocious little girl, with several cousins to keep her company. When we saw you on the docket for Ichthus in Wilmore, KY (where Julie attended college at Asbury) we were very excited. Anyway, we would love to meet you, and even take you out for dinner...heck, you could even stay at Julie's house if you didn't want to get a hotel. (She does justice to Southern Hospitality). You've been such an inspiration to her and our whole family. Parenthically, our church will be very involved with the festival, with our pastor getting to do the closing talk. PS - you can see pictures of Julie and her little girl Ellie on her facebook page....Julie Adams (in Lexington, KY) Regardless of whether we get to meet you, thanks for putting words and music to emotions and spiritual stirrings that haven't always been easy to articulate. Your music convicts and inspires so many....thanks for sharing your life of faith (Philemon 6) - I think it's part of the reason you understand and can articulate more than most all of the good things we have in Christ Jesus.

a hatcher May 25, 2009 • 04:40 AM

We downloaded you singing there is a redeemer with a group of people,this was from youtube but it was blocked after we played it a few times we cannot find this song on any of your albums how can we buy this video,we love this song,but only sung by you

S May 25, 2009 • 12:35 AM

Sara, I read your bio and was inspired. I just finished a year of service and my heart aches for girls. For the abused, hurt, lost. I have found that every person has a story to tell. Some just don't know it. Your story about IJM and Elizabeth and your work made me stop and think. I have such a passion for helping out the "least of these". I love your lyrics and the truth they bring and wanted to say thanks for what you have done and how you have brought some of those stories to America. A place in which we have a hard time comprehending what goes outside our little bubble. Is there any way you know of that people can get involved in helping out girls such as Elizabeth whether that be mentoring or just listening to them and their stories?

Ryan Tapia May 24, 2009 • 05:14 PM

Dear Sara and team, Thank you very much for coming to Tampa for the Glory at the Gardens. I know it was very hot out there, but you'll were great and my wife and I really enjoyed the concert. On Christmas Day, I lost my mom Karen, 54, to Pancreatic Cancer. She was a great Christian mom and friend, and this was the first concert I had been to since her passing. The songs were great encouragement. Hope you'll come back year. God bless. Ryan

Cheryl Sprague May 24, 2009 • 10:13 AM

Wonderful to find Sara Groves music. I enjoy the voicing and God's truth being shared. I heard about her at a recent Pierce Pettis concert where he recommended Sara's music, mentioning that she had done a cover of his song "You did that for me" (co-written by Pettis and Jonelle Mosser.) I'm sure it's just an oversight that when one clicks on the song on Sara's site it says "You did that for me" by Sara Groves. Perhaps it can be corrected. Thank you for your beautiful music.

Jeannie Miller May 23, 2009 • 05:56 PM

Sara, Your music is an inspiration to me on so many levels. I love to listen to you always, but especially when I am struggling. You have been given a gift with your abilty to write and sing with transpariency. Could you please tell me if you are planning a concert in the MN or WI area anytime soon? If I knew that you were even singing at church...I would come to worship and lsiten:) I have heard you in concert a couple times and would love to hear you again! Blessings to you.....Jeannie Miller

Jeannie Miller May 23, 2009 • 05:56 PM

Abby Hutson May 21, 2009 • 11:24 PM

Dear soul, I think we are friends... in the Kingdom. (: God has blessed you with inspiring song writing capabilities. Don't stop. Love your family first but I hope you don't stop writing. Maybe someday we can jam together. Abby

Katie Reid May 21, 2009 • 05:18 PM

I have been so encouraged and inspired by your music ever since I first heard you perform at my husband's graduation from Dallas Theological Seminary in 2002. At that point I had heard one or two of your songs on the radio and was intrigued by your unique and powerful gift, but since then, I have become a loyal fan who owns all your albums! Many of your songs have become the themes for different seasons of my life. I think that "You are the Sun" is my life theme. Thank you for sharing your gift and reflecting His glory! My husband and I are now leading a church plant in West Georgia. I continually check your tour schedule, but you never seem to come to this part of the country. Is there any way we could entice you to come down here? The Bible belt loves you!An elder in our church, who manages the Lifeway Christian Bookstore in town, is also a big fan of your music. He keeps me updated on your new projects and even brought me a poster of you that you signed for him. Thanks! If our paths never cross on this side, I can't wait to meet you in heaven and get a few music lesssons! Many blessings to you and your family!

John May 21, 2009 • 09:11 AM

I just heard I can't wait for the first time. I am going to buy the Stationwagon CD. I am a Dad, in life we get off course, or we do not always set out on the right course with what is the real enjoyment of our children or our mission, mostly what a gift God has given us. The words in your song have touched me in a amazing way. Thank You. John

Bill May 21, 2009 • 04:29 AM

Keep building an Army of the faithful. Your words and music are appreciated in so many enumerable ways. Thank you for inspiring us to do His will and to seek the Kingdom here on Earth through action.

Rebecca May 20, 2009 • 07:03 PM

I was feeling overwhelmed. I cried today from the stress, and that doesn't happen often, maybe a couple times a year. My boyfriend is starting a nonprofit called Human Touch Global, and I am part of our small board of directors. With no exaggeration, this is "our day of humble beginnings". Our first event is approaching rapidly and we're still scrambling for vendors, donations, and ticket sales. I know how big God is, and I know He gave us, and especially my boyfriend, a vision for this. I can see the blessings that have occurred so far, but there's so much more to DO. Then I heard your song "When the Saints," and I thought about those amazing warriors for God I was introduced to through the Art*Music*Justice tour. I thought about how I have the amazing opportunity to be on the ground floor of a new move of God, and I had totally lost sight of the amazing work we are hoping to do in God's kingdom through Human Touch Global. In the stress of wondering who on earth would ever donate things to a charity they had never heard of with no track record, I forgot that our cause is born of someone beyond this earth. Thank you for your music. Thank you for working with IJM, they're an amazing group, and I hope we can make a sliver of the impact they are making and that you are making. I met you briefly in Cornelius, NC, and you were gracious and kind. Thank you for the encouragement, wisdom, and faithfulness in your music. It matters.

Barbara McAlister May 20, 2009 • 06:07 PM

Sara, I'm going to Africa this summer! I'll be in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Tanzania, and Ethiopia. I'm going on a travel award through my school, but I plan to spend the time studying cultural music and dancing. In Ethiopia I will meet my two newest siblings (a brother and sister). Soon there will be 9 of us. Thank you for your music and your blogging. It's giving me a glimpse into where I'm going.

Kelly May 20, 2009 • 04:30 PM

Hi Sara - or Sara's Dad:) I'd also like to encourage you to "keep going". Your music really inspires me and my walk with Jesus - and for a couple of years now I have referred to you as "my best friend" your cd Pass the Wishing is my favorite - My 24 year old son Sean passed away Aug. 2009 of melanoma and your song "dress down your pretty faith" was a help those first few days. Thank-you. So Sara's Dad - call her up and tell her to keep on keeping on - May God keep blessing you all, and using you - for His glory -amen.

Rob Friske May 20, 2009 • 12:21 PM

I am really trying to find a place to purchase the "Traveling Light" mp 3. I don't want the whole cd, just this one song. If anyone has found a source, please let me know. Rob

Kerry Jespersen May 20, 2009 • 11:55 AM

Sara I just want to say thank you from the deepest part of my heart. I have loved your music for years, but this past year your songs have meant so much to me. I am currently grieving over the end of my marriage of 20 years, and most days feel like i'm lying on the ground and can't get up. I feel like there is a 20 pound weight strapped to my heart. The pain and hurt is intense and paralyzing. Your songs from Add to the Beauty gave me a reminder of hope in the midst of my pain. It really is going to be alright, God will come through and heal my broken heart. Your words came as a timely encouragement to me as I struggle through the most painful feelings I have ever experienced. I found solace. So I wanted to somehow express my thanks to you and encourage you to keep going. Warmest regards, Kerry

Paul Irwin May 19, 2009 • 04:05 PM

Hey, Sara - I really appreciated your musical contributions to the conference in Pleasant Hill last week. I've been a fan of yours for awhile. Our local Christian station plays your songs a lot. I'm the guy that produced one of Jan Krist's CD's. I have a question for your husband. I loved his brushwork and bass drum triggering concept. I was curious what brand of brushes he was using. I couldn't see that well, but they sounded great. For that matter, what particular trigger pad is he using for your bass drum? SARA'S DAD: Could you please forward this request for information for me? Thanks, Paul

Monica May 18, 2009 • 07:20 AM

Dear Troy and Sara - thank you for your latest newsletter. I love to keep in touch with your ministry. And it's good to see that you, Sara, stay consciously selective about the way you use the web and the blogosphere. It's sad that there was no Dove Award - I would give you my highest award! But just look at what you do for God's Kingdom! How you live out the Gospel, how you grow in faith and encourage us with honesty and creativity to search God and ways to express His love in this world. We can witness your journey in your music and your teaching, and this is soooo encouraging. This is why we love you and your music that much, and so I want to encourage your family to always seek God's Kingdom first. His Kingdom definitely is not about glamour and money and show biz, but about loving mercy, seeking justice and walking humbly with our God - and He surely will give you all the blessings you need for a good and godly life. Thank you, Sara, for your beautiful music and your precious heart!

Hannah D May 18, 2009 • 12:44 AM

Firstly, thank you so much Sara! You have spoken to my heart and fed my soul with your music. My Brother works with IJM, and so your last album has been particularly "on time" as they say! A friend of mine as me to sing at her wedding, and I have decided on your piece "Fly". I hope I can do it justice. I was wondering though, is there any way to find a background track to that song? I've been searching but to no avail...Thank you again for how you minister. I pray you continue to bless and inspire others as you have me. Grace and Peace to you...

Larry Stephan May 16, 2009 • 08:55 PM

My daughter sang He's Always Been Faithful at our 30th wedding anniversary party (this was a few years ago) and now she is having it sung by a close friend of the family as she walks down the aisle (with me) on 6/19. Your music has been part of our lives for many years and continues to be. Thank you.

the aces May 16, 2009 • 07:17 PM

I was wondering what you looked like..I heard just showed up on the radio looks like you were the lucky winner...u dont seem like the type..Im suprised you took the song..thats one of my all time favorites..Im guessing you dont know where it came from but that one was wrote in spring 2002 I think makes sense but I surely remember where it was wrote..thats how my life works just a bunch of flash backs..no it wasnt magic one of many songs meant 4 the aces..., an electronic band ..any voice u want ..but that one was for the hearts(which I cant be and vice versa with the diamond) and no I got nothing..the right to still walk freely on the earth..but noone has that right to grant that privelage ..Im quite sad. and it hurts livin my life like this..the song was meant to be sung by someone im in love with and she doesnt exist here but I did used to see here I guess shes an angel here names rachel smith.... I thought you would just like to know someof the origins..and about me Im real..just a secret to some but for the most part maybe just a big lie

Art & Merideth Smith May 16, 2009 • 02:56 PM

Dear Sara, We just came back from seeing you at Busch Gardens, Tampa. It was boiling hot out in the sun, the sound wasn't too great but you were wonderful! We fell in love with you when we first heard "Conversation," and we have been following your poetry put to music every since. Thank you for speaking for all of us when you share the secret places of your heart. If you didn't exist we would have had to just make you up! Thank you so very much for richly blessing us with your gift that honors Jesus and both comforts and encourages us in our journey home. In His Love, Art & Merideth Smith

Lisa Lee May 13, 2009 • 07:51 PM

I am a photographer as a second career. I know how much your music has touched my life and am a huge fan. I would be happy to shoot pictures any time and provide them at no cost to you for use on your albums or Web site or just for your personal enjoyment. Have someone drop me an Email, and I would be happy to provide my Web site address. Please keep doing what you are doing! I am always so excited to hear your new songs to see how God speaks through you.

Steve McCalip May 13, 2009 • 06:23 PM

Sara, can you tell me if you plan on doing concert in the Houston area this year? If so, will it be by yourself or with others?

Mark & Barb Russo May 13, 2009 • 03:14 PM

We would love to attend the Scottdale Concerts,can you tellus how with an e-mail please. Bless you Mark

Kate Boarder May 13, 2009 • 02:30 PM

Hi Sara, My name is Kate Boarder, I'm Zach Miller's cousin, and this past Christmas he gave me O Holy Night. Since he gave it to me I've been wanting to write you, and it only took me 5 months to do it! I guess that is how it goes when you have kids. :) I love this album. I really love all of your music, but this one in particular was so great. I love how the songs flow together, I love the calm vibe in a hectic season, and I love the new flavor of the old favorites. My favorite song is Cradle in Bethlehem. I sang it to my girls at night during the Christmas season, and I still do - it is SUCH a beautiful song. You have such a gift, and I appreciate how much you've done for me through your music, and also for Zach as he has so enjoyed being a part of what you do.

Kara Stanton (Carter) May 11, 2009 • 04:09 PM

Hi Sara! I just wanted to express my love of your music. I have heard quite a bit of your music as I am an Evangel University graduate, and was a member of the Concert Choir with Sharron Wilkins. I had the honor and privilege of singing your choral version of "He's Always Been Faithful" on many occasions and in many places all over the United States, and I can say it was probably my favorite song to perform while in choir. I think I cried nearly every time we sang it. Such beautiful lyrics and a beautiful testimony to the faithfulness of God. My God bless you for giving him your talents and allowing him to use you to bless so many around the world! You truly are anointed! Blessings, Kara

dan grantham May 09, 2009 • 05:45 PM

Sara: I am so proud of you. It has been fun watching your career. Would love to connect sometime. Peace.

Nathan Stecchi May 09, 2009 • 09:03 AM

I remember when I bought "All Right Here" and there was a bonus CD that had an interview with you where you gave lots of insight into your music and writing. It made your music very real to know the 'why' behind it. So each song I hear from you, I am compelled to understand why you wrote it. Other than that CD, somtimes I can find little interviews or stories and reasons to a few, but I thought since you are skilled in writing, you ought to write a book, like a companion guide, to all or many of your songs that would give background information about this music. Your CD "Tell Me What You Know" has such rich text. After finding a 43 second clip online about the story behind that song, the richness gave way to empathy and connection. I'm so thankful that God uses you to communicate messages that not only stimulate our emotions, but our reason as well. I can't tell you how many times I listen to your music, and the style and lyrics propel me into a deeper relationship with the One who chose to save me! Thank you...oh yeah, and I'm totally serious about that book!!! :)

Tammy May 09, 2009 • 04:52 AM

Hey Sara - My husband and I own two ice cream shops in South Carolina - we love the Lord and we love you - we have a nice really really nice patio space - we need you here - you haven't seemed to travel our way much - we'd love to give you a venue - and we'd donate the proceeds to Darfur - or your mission efforts in Rwanda - Let us know if you are interested in visiting our corner of the country - we are near Charlotte NC - 3 miles south of the border - thanks for considering these small potatos - Tammy and Andrew

Tyler McCabe May 08, 2009 • 02:11 PM

Dear Sara, I want to be a writer, even though I'm not entirely sure what God wants to say through me yet. It's extremely rare, but every once in a while there is an album of music that stumbles into my path which, to me, reads like a rich novel. Two years ago you opened for a Jars of Clay concert I went to, I heard your music for the first time. "All Right Here" was one of those novel-albums. Last week, I just purchased "Tell Me What You Know" and discovered to my surprise that it was, in new and different way, another novel-album. I've been "re-reading" it over and over since then. If you get this message, then know that your gifts are inspiring to me. Your journey, through your music, is ineffably connected with mine. I thank God for allowing me to meet you through your art. Hopefully someday God will use me to change the world like you have, and then through my art you can meet me, too. -Tyler

Marca Fleener May 08, 2009 • 01:17 PM

Sara, OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!! I just totally stumbled upon your music!!!! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE??? I have been searching on the internet for good songs to play at my preschool graduation (i am director/teacher of a small christian preschool in central IL.) Well... I found some alright!!!! But more importantly, I found YOU with songs appropriate for ME (as a mommy, wife, christian woman, etc.) I listen to a variety of music, some christian, some not. I love nichole nordeman and that type. Am not so into the pop stuff. Love the stuff that's from the heart and real. May you be blessed a million times over!!!! I shall share you with the world! (or at least my little corner of it!) Happy Mother's Day! Marca :) p.s.- just found you on facebook! yay!

Becca May 07, 2009 • 07:56 PM

Sara- You're music inspires me to strive to love Jesus more and more. I despreatly want to hear you in concert! You're music is so inspiring and touching I weep every time I listen to Remember Surrender. Why can't we live in surrender? Why can't we live and be perfectly right with God? Why must we do evil deeds? Becasue, God loves enough to love us even if we aren't honest. Thank-you From, Becca

Melinda May 07, 2009 • 04:47 PM

Hi Sara, I just wanted to let you know that I thank God for the gift he has given you of music - your music is so often an encouragement to me. Melinda : )

Angela May 06, 2009 • 11:59 AM

Dear Sara, I'm listening to your music right now! I love your album, "All Right Here". When I'm not listening to it, I'm singing it! I hope one day I can come to one of your concerts! May God bless you and your ministry abundantly!! Angela D.

tonya May 04, 2009 • 05:05 PM

hi Sara, may i have your permission to add a video i made of our home group, to your song TO THE MOON? i will send you the video.thanks tonya

Amy May 03, 2009 • 01:29 PM

Dear Sara, I just wanted to say thank you for your music. I am a 32 year old single Christian woman living in the Uk, and your first 3 albums have encouraged, inspired and comforted me throughout my walk with God. I have listened to your albums many times over the years and each time a different song speaks to me. God really does use your music to teach and encourage others across the world. We do not hear much of you over here in England but please know that there are people here who love your music. Your music has comforted me after the death of my father, encouraged me when i despaired, reminded me of Gods great love and faithfulness and given me hope for the future. It has been my connection to God when I had very little contact with other Christians. So thank you! If you ever make it over to England - please let me know. May the Lord bless you and your family. Amy

Ken Henry May 03, 2009 • 10:17 AM

Wow.

Linda Miller May 02, 2009 • 12:16 PM

Dear Sara, I just wanted you to know that I sing/pray your song "This Journey Is My Own" every time before I speak. I am a MOPS speaker and I know that, whether or not my message is greeted with cheers or jeers, this journey is my own. It is for me to be faithful to God's calling in my life, and for me to be obedient in God's will... not to be motivated by popularity (or discouraged by a lack of it!). Thank you for this beautiful song and the very meaningful lyrics. In Christ, Linda Miller

amy kern May 01, 2009 • 01:36 AM

I have found your music a great encouragement and challenge to me as I endeavor to serve God here in Australia. I have introduced your music to many Christians here and wanted you to know if you ever decided to do a concert here, I would do my bit to make it a sellout. May God continue to reveal himself to you as you use the gift of music to give praise and glory to him.

Takeshia Stokes April 30, 2009 • 09:14 PM

Sara, You are a gift! Thank you for opening up your heart and allowing your meditations to become lyrics that penetrate the souls of man. I enjoy listening to your music. "I SAW WHAT I SAW" speaks to me and makes me ponder my purpose. My heart beats for justice, orphans, adoption, the least of these and life! Yet sometimes I get distracted and off centered with the purpose. I try to remind myself that my studies (I'm a grad student) are for the Kingdom. Someone is depending upon my completion. But it still remains a struggle to stay within the confinements of seasons when your heart aches to do more! I know it's a journey so I must put less stress on the end and consider the means to it. I appreciate your willingness to write from the heart. Keep up the God work! I'll be praying for your ministry. Please pray for me too. Oh, I'm familiar with the work of IJM. They are a great organization. I hope the birth of your daughter goes well. That's exciting! Take care. God bless you and yours! :)

Pat Comeaux April 30, 2009 • 08:55 AM

Hi Sara, I have been listening to your poetry (music) for several years. Recently, All Right Here has been speaking to my wife and I's situation in our walk with Our Lord. We truly believe that God inspired the penmanship is this recording, and it all speaks to us in ways we would have never dreamed of. I have listened to and enjoyed this recording many times, and until two days ago, was never moved more by The Holy Spirit in such a huge way. Thank you for being obedient to God in writing and producing this. In Christ I remain. Pat Comeaux

Yvonne Armitage April 29, 2009 • 07:00 PM

Hi Sara, Your music penetrates my heart! Thank you so much for being faithful to God and being a good steward of the gifts He has blessed you with!! He is blessing my lfe with your music :) In Christ Forever, Yve :)

Robert Anglin April 29, 2009 • 03:17 PM

Thanks and keep Jesus First! We will never be fully mature here on earth! That is no excuse to stop trying! We must contiue the fight and running our race till that blessed day!

David Houck April 29, 2009 • 01:09 PM

ABSTRACTION*DEFEAT*HOPE: I'm not sure what to write, but after going to Kenya with Food for the Hungry in 2007, I came home feeling all of the things the songs form your album describe. There is a burning to do more, yet a limitation, a confusion, a sense of disorientation when thinking of the disparity between our own difficulties and those in a global context. It was all I could do to go to Kenya, with a wife and daughter nervously waiting for me to come home, praying I wouldn't be hurt, and now I can't go back. I find myself staring out of that "window" into the memory of my mission trip and into the question of what I can still do from where I am now. This creates a heartache that's hard to describe, but listening to Tell Me What You Know reminds me that I'm not alone. Thank you.

Jeannie Patterson April 28, 2009 • 02:33 PM

Sara, I am the administrative assistant for one of the pastors at Warm Beach Free Methodist Church. He has asked me to contact you in the hopes of sending you a book that the Lord has laid on his heart to send, entitled "Playing for an Audience of One." He was introduced to your music through your song "This Journey Is My Own" which, in his words, "captures in song what I was reaching for in prose." I am sure you get a lot of solicitations and "odd" e-mails. Please know that there are no strings attached to this, just a desire to be obedient to the voice of the Lord and bless you in a small measure of how you have blessed others. If you would be willing to send me a mailing address where I could send this book, I would be grateful. Thank you so much for your ministry in song. Jeannie Patterson

D. King April 28, 2009 • 02:02 PM

Thankyou very much Sara helping our ministry In Jersey City, nj. By Performing at our benefit concert Friday April 24. The Children Enjoyed meeting you!!

Anthony Ryan April 28, 2009 • 09:21 AM

Dear Sara and Friends, I am the Marketing & Sales Director for Ignatius Press in San Francisco. IP is a large Catholic publishing house. I enjoy your lovely music very much. And that is why Ignatius Press has just added two of your CDs to our new Music Catalog that we just mailed 200,000 copies of to our IP list. I just wanted you to know that you have a large distributor now in the Catholic market for some of your albums. (We have a direct account with Sony Music). While IP is mainly a book and film co., we do sell music as well. I would like to send you a few copies of our 2009 IP Music catalog for you to see your albums featured in its pages. Please e-mail me an address to mail the catalogs to. If you are ever in the SF Bay Area, we would love to meet you at Ignatius Press. For more info, please visit our website at: www.ignatius.com. Sincerely in Christ, Anthony J. Ryan

Mikaela April 28, 2009 • 07:19 AM

u r a gr8 singer

Taylor April 28, 2009 • 06:29 AM

Sara, I love your song, Every Minute, it just relates so much to me and I love your music. :) Thank you for writing such awesome music! I love it.

carol collier April 27, 2009 • 10:30 AM

Hi Sara, I have heard your song, When the Saints, several times in the last week. My son, daughter in law and 2 year old grandson are in Kazakhstan right now adopting a baby girl. Kazakhstan is a spiritually dark place. My kids have been their for 7 weeks and have 2 more to go. It is so hard. When I hear The Saints I think of them. They are truly being used by God to "place the lonely in families" Psalm 68;6a. My daughter in law was able to download the song ~ it encouraged her so much. Thank you for writing and singing words that come from your heart and speak to our hearts.

Claudette & Collin April 27, 2009 • 08:30 AM

Dearest Sara, Just wanted to thank you again for sharing a couple minutes of your time with my son Collin by signing the CD and chatting with him as you walked down the sidewalk. It is and will remain a highlight in his life. I cherish that he listens to your straight, truthful, biblical verses and recognizes your voice among the others. We are praying for joy and fullness in your family time, may it be precious each day. Yours faithfully, Claudette & Collin

JB April 26, 2009 • 05:01 AM

Sara-- Been a fan ever since ADD TO THE BEAUTY. Great album. I'm going to see you live later today. I am a writer and provide the bulk of the content for an INTERCESSION-based human trafficking initiative. www.exoduscry.com Would love to follow your tweets. jbmavWRITER

Daniel Nunez April 25, 2009 • 07:33 PM

God has blessed you with a talent that I appreciate very much. I am a Navy Corpsman currently deployed with the Marines. I have seen some terrible things and have had friends pass away. I only have two of your albums on my MP3 player (one of which I found at the chapel here), but your lyrics have helped me carry on and continue to move forward. I have to be strong for those around me who may be weak and be able to offer them an encouraging word. And listening to your music, along with prayer and reading my bible, has been an immense help. I listen to your albums in the gym, on my free time and every night before I sleep. Every time God gives me courage and messages through your music. May you continue to inspire and give courage to the lost and weary of this world. God bless you. Daniel Nunez, USN Afghanistan

Jacqui Leonard April 25, 2009 • 12:35 AM

Hi there, Have only recently 'discovered' you after listening to my local Christian radio station and hearing an interview with you. I love the way you speak and write and sing - it engages with my heart and soul. Your honesty is totally engaging. Thank you - any plans to visit Australia?

Yaima Centeno April 24, 2009 • 09:01 PM

Dear Sara, I have felt in love with the lyrics of your songs and the music since I came back from Cuba. I did not have any access to you music in Cuba but when I came here a friend introduced me to it. On April 24th, 2009 my dream came through. I finally got to see Sara Groves and her band. Thanks for coming to New Jersey and thanks for helping me in my spiritual growth with your music. You sounded amazing in Wychoff, NJ. Greetings from NJ!!!

Cindy April 24, 2009 • 02:20 PM

Hi Sara! I was really hoping you were coming to Lifest in Oshkosh, WI this summer (July 8 - 12).. Is there any chance you will be booking with that event? I haven't seen you in a couple years and I miss you!

Daniel Sweetser April 22, 2009 • 09:07 PM

Hello, ma'am! I figure this isn't the best place to put this sort of request, but I wasn't sure how else to send it. Please forgive my odd use of this guestbook. My name is Daniel Sweetser, and I am an employee at a Christian university in Illinois. I work with computers, but I sing and write songs on the side, and I've done this for a few years now. I was introduced to your music by an ex-girlfriend, who was so greatly encouraged by these songs in her walk with God that it caused me to begin to admire the songs as well. You have a great heart for God, and it comes through clearly in your music. I'm sending this message with a single request (I know it's a long shot, but why not try?). The request is this: I was wondering if you, Sara, would be willing to meet with this ex-girlfriend of mine, just to chat with her about her walk with God and how everything is going. Her name is Katie, and she is a woman of God like no other I have ever met. It would mean the world to her to just be able to sit and have coffee with you, to share her own heart and hear yours. I have no idea if this will even get through, but I want to say that I have also been greatly encouraged by your music, and I am grateful to you as a musical influence as well. Thank you, ma'am, for setting a high standard in lyrical depth and honesty. It has been an inspiration for me. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me at the email address I provided. Thank you, and God bless you! Sincerely, Daniel Sweetser

laura f. wise April 22, 2009 • 06:19 PM

Sara, what can I say? Your lyrics and music bring encouragement and inspiration to my life everyday. Today I came across a video on Youtube about the stories behind Add to the Beauty, and some things hit me like ton of bricks. The beautiful playing of John Catchings on "Why it Matters" gave me a whole new connection to the song when I heard the story about the cellist. Also, your story behind "Love is Still a Worthy Cause" was so touching and beautiful. Thank you for not only sharing your rare and lovely talent, but for sharing your beautiful stories behind your music. The Lord has used your gift in my life so many ways. Thank you for what you're sharing. In His grip, Laura

Phil Williams April 22, 2009 • 09:20 AM

I saw your video today about Rwanda (I Saw What I Saw) and was deeply touched. I feel that very few "Christian" artists today get "it". Your music and story ring of an all-too-infrequent reality. I read your story and feel similar, sadly it took trips to Kenya and India to wreck/challenge my world. I am a sports agent in the NFL and have drastically changed how I do "business". Please check out 28sportsgroup.com and then please contact me. My wife and I both felt a sense of urgency to communicate with you and possibly collaborate as we do our small part to change our world for His glory. Please call or write. I look forward to it.

Betsy April 21, 2009 • 07:20 PM

I met you at the private concert at 4 Market Square in Knoxville last night. I am so in awe of your talent, your love for the Lord and the way it seems that God's Word inspires you. Thank you so much for talking to me afterwards and letting my husband meet your husband and check out his percussion set-up! I'm sorry I said out loud that I was having "a moment" when I was talking to you, but it was true and I'm thankful for the chance to meet such a humble and beautiful woman! Thank you for sharing your music with us!

Becky Brooks April 21, 2009 • 02:31 PM

He's always been faithful is a comfort to me after losing my eldest daughter in a tragic car accident, Dec. 24, 2008, divorced, mother of two, one boy Justin, one girl Honor, who I have the privilege of rearing. My heart wants to believe every word of this song and then I can truly feel, as I believe the true joy of knowing -the Lord Jesus is Good in every way. He is faithful when we are faithless.

Steve April 18, 2009 • 07:08 PM

Sara, can you tell me if you plan on coming to the Houston area this year? Please, please do. If you are, do you plan on coming by yourself. I hope so so that I can hear more of your songs instead of just a few if you are with others. Take care.

Richard Carey April 18, 2009 • 07:02 PM

i first heard sara on a michael card dvd and her beautiful voice made me find out who she was which wasn't easy. Please have her release some of her music videos like painting pictures of egypt so i don't have to watch them on youtube thanks

Andreas April 18, 2009 • 02:34 AM

Thank you Sara for the music, the texts and the spirit. You reach further than you know. Keep writing, singing and beeing an encouragement to me and many more. Andreas Sweden

Nicole April 16, 2009 • 03:14 AM

Sara and family I wrote an entry (March 11th) asking if you would mind if I use your song "Beautiful Child" on my special daughters blog page - See www.cdkl5 and look under 'personal stories' or www.alicecdkl5.blogspot.com - I did not hear back from you so have not included it yet but would like to if you agree. Thank you again for your beautiful music. Nicole

Stephen Pruitt April 15, 2009 • 09:09 PM

Sara. . . you are a rare and beautiful talent. . . and truly remarkable blessing for the flock.

Vince Delmonte April 14, 2009 • 06:38 PM

My fellow on Facebook shared this link with me and I'm not dissapointed that I came here.

Julie Martin April 14, 2009 • 10:58 AM

Sara, Your music has been instrumental in helping me mature as a Christian. You write and sing about all situations - and that is great!! Every Easter my husband and I think about the 2 times you were at our church to lead music worship on Easter...Athens, AL...I was telling my daughter that you and I sat together on the back row of the Maundy Thursday service, and I nursed her the whole time because she was so fussy. She said "you nursed me sitting next to Sara Groves...mom, what were you thinking". I also had buttermilk pie for Easter on Sunday....Thanks for all you do...I can't wait to see you in concert again someday... Julie Martin

Allen Mundt April 13, 2009 • 05:35 PM

Dear Sara, I know your biggest fan. I hope to marry her soon. I am a 57 year old widower, who will soon have the privilege of proposing to a 57 year old widow. She has been through so much [death of spouse, parents with Alzheimers] that it is just amazing how she gets through it. Your music has ministered to her in ways unimaginable. I am wondering if you would ever consent to meet with a fan if you are close by. One of the first things this special lady did is to share one of your songs [Great is Thy Faithfulness] when we started becoing interested in one another. I want to propose to her soon. I wonder if you would ever consider coming to share the moment with us and her close family? I know you are busy. Allen

Shannon April 13, 2009 • 05:58 AM

Dear Sara, your lyrics hit me like a truck. I saw you at Cornerstone last year. Since then I've been trying to focus on my pygmy spiritual buffalo. Thank you for blessing me over and over again. How do you sing so many words in one breath, yet so intelligibly?

Melissa Kret April 11, 2009 • 09:50 PM

Your songs have really spoken to me. I just love the message behind your songs. The lyrics are so inspiring and uplifting and deep. Thank you so much for meaningful music in spite of all this pointless, meaningless "music" that there seems to be now. :)

sheila perez April 08, 2009 • 01:32 PM

I have Been so very blessed by your music. Your gift touches the spirit in my heart. what more can I say than It has helped to change my life. God Bless, Sheila

Ahmed Elshinnawi .. Egypt April 06, 2009 • 10:21 AM

I came by chance to listen to your song "painting pictures of Egypt" ... REALLY AWESOME! I'm in tears every time I listen to it .. thank you and good luck for your future work :)

Katie Close April 05, 2009 • 04:55 PM

I saw you in concert at Willow Creek in Chicago at the Children's Ministry Conference. You were awesome. You spoke to my heart and encouraged me to reach out more to others. Thank you! You have a beautiful voice and I enjoy listening to you every chance I get.

Shannon April 05, 2009 • 06:42 AM

Dear Sara, Thank you for sharing your stories, lessons from our dear Father, dreams, experiences, and inspirations with the world. Your music is a gift. I am an American English teacher in China, and I played your song "Add to the Beauty" in class the other day. My students have never heard music like yours, ever. The lyrics, piano and other instruments, and your lovely voice were all fresh and wonderful to them, because you are a willing vessel and the goodness and truth of the Giver of every good gift comes to us and to them through you. So to Him I give thanks, and to you I give encouragement and all blessings in your life and your work. Under the Mercy, Shannon Lucas-Roberts

Kaity W. April 04, 2009 • 10:52 AM

Hey Sara! I just watched your Nomad DVD for like the thousandth time and it gets me every time! You are such an awesome person and role model for me. I really love your music. Every song gives me something to think about. I wish you would come to Burlington!

Tiffany April 03, 2009 • 10:35 PM

Sarah, I just have to say that you really inspire me. As a college student, there are so many forces that can easily draw me in directions that stray from God's path for me. Whenever I find myself looking up to people who are doing wicked things but seem so -interesting, it really helps me to go watch one of your videos or listen to your music. I can look up to you because you are different from some other Christian artists in that I feel that you are 100% real and honest, so I can relate to that. You seem wholesome, but not in a naive way - like wholesome on purpose, you know? And so I just love that and I love you! Thank you so much!

Sharon Maples April 03, 2009 • 03:07 PM

Sarah: Your mom is my daughter's principle at Field Elementary in Springfield. Usually mothers get the great reports on their kids, but this time, you (the kid) get a great report on your mother. Last year, I had a miscarriage, and my daughter, Hannah was very sad and troubled at school. Dr. Colbaugh pulled her privately into her office, and prayed with Hannah. This speaks volumes of your mom. First of all, Field is a public school, however she knew that God is everywhere! What a blessing she has been to all of my children at Field Elementary. P.S. I think you are GREAT too! ;) Many blessings to you. Sharon Maples

Hannah April 03, 2009 • 11:27 AM

Hi Sara, I've listened to your music for the last couple of years. I just wanted to let you know that it has really encouraged me as I am facing major spine surgery on June 2nd. I especially like the song Something Changed. It's given me alot of peace in the past couple of weeks. Keep up the excellent work!

Martijn van Beveren April 03, 2009 • 04:09 AM

Hi Sara, Thank you for you music. Two weeks ago I bought a album of you "add to the beauty". I was moved by the heartfelt and true lyrics. The songs resonate in me and bring me joy and tears. They encourage me to share the kingdom. I like what you said about grooming your faith and I think we should be aware in what position we are and how to be fruitful with the talents God has given us. So again thank you for sharing Christ with me... Grace and peace, Martijn

Brittney April 02, 2009 • 11:06 PM

During a time of doubt and confusion, I found hope in Christ with the messages from your songs. They were messages that I thought I was the only one dealing with...because being in the church most of my life...it was hard for people to understand my identity crisis. It seemed to be as simple as "call on Jesus"...I was calling and hearing, but I was "painting pictures of egypt" not wanting to move on from the oppression I had been in for so long...it did seem like home. Well, I think I listened to many of your songs almost every day during the last fall semester. Hearing the Word in your songs was helping to build my faith. I even wrote about Tell Me What You Know for one of my papers...breaking down each song, the theme of the whole cd, and even searched your website and CD jacket for the background info behind the songs. Just today, I typed in your name on youtube because I wanted to see if there was anything new that had been posted. I came across "Less Like Scars"...omG!! This is exactly where I am. You know how you receive a surprise not necessarily something that you thought you needed, but it was special because you didn't realize you needed it until you received it. That's how this song was...I am no longer at a place of feeling so wounded and messed up over every little thing that happens. I couldn't even get through the song because I was just so grateful to God for being so faithful (I went back to it though! :-). He makes me smile! He knows what we need!! He is so encouraging as we walk every day with Him. Thanks for sharing and being so loving!! God bless you and your family!! Much love, Brittney

Birgit Jauch April 02, 2009 • 05:38 AM

Hello Sara, I'm working in the City Administration of Stuttgart. Today I've spoken in a Café with a Sara from Minneapolis, who's drunk a big Espresso. I meant that this Sara's said that she's a single and my collegue has heard that this Sara's said that she's a singer. Were you in Stuttgart at the second April in 2009? Greetings from Germany, Birgit Jauch

Jodi April 01, 2009 • 10:48 PM

Dear Sara, Thank you for putting to music the words my heart has needed to express. Countless times I've reached for your CDs to help console my aching heart, or to help me phrase a prayer, or to simply feel "understood" by another human being. You are a gifted song writer, Thank you for using your gift to bless my life. Sincerely, Jodi Hamilton, NJ

Chelsy Troyer April 01, 2009 • 06:46 PM

Hello Sara Groves, First off I would like to say that I admire your great ability as a song writer and singer and your great love for God. I never was a great singer. I have a favor to ask of you. God has always put words into my head, but I only ever used them for poems. Just a few months ago, God placed this idea in my mind that I should start writing songs instead. That is what I have been doing the last couple of months. Now, I would love to have you look at them and maybe if you find them any good I was hoping you could sing them. Let me know if you are up for this offer. You can use the email that I have provided to contact me. God Bless, Chelsy Troyer

Heidi Gentry March 31, 2009 • 01:14 PM

Sara, my husband and I came to the CD release of Tell me What you Know in Minn while I was pregnant with our second child. We were so moved by I saw What I saw. Today we are finally able to sponsor a child from Rwanda and are happy to add a 9 year old girl to our family because of what you saw. Thank you.

David Luken March 30, 2009 • 09:14 PM

I know this doesnt sound like a big issue. But When i got to college i had a girlfriend of almost two years and loved her dearly, however she broke up with me for another guy and i was devastated. Not only was it tough going through a break up without my friends and family, it was also tough going through the homesickness of the first months of college. I sank deeper and deeper into sadness and depression. It was not until Thanksgiving break when my Mom gave me some of your songs to listen too. The song "Its going to be Alright" got me thorugh each day (with prayer of course). Now im doing much better and am enjoying college. But i just wanted to thank you for writing such beautiful music and thank you for helping me!

Stephanie Camera March 29, 2009 • 06:15 PM

Today my church family and I said goodbye to Nick, a wonderful 5 yr. old boy who lost his battle with leukemia on Thursday morning. One comfort that the Lord has provided to me is your song "Going Home." I'm listening to it right now and savoring the thought and promise the I will see him again. Thank you, Sara. Words can't express how much this song means to me. God Bless.

Greg March 29, 2009 • 12:57 PM

My wife and I love your music. It has been a staple in our road trip CD collection for years. Thank you for being so open and honest in your music. It is truly an encouragement to know that other Christians can feel not so Christian at times. Keep up the great music! Regards, Greg PS - I saw that you are from the southern burbs of Minneapolis. Did you go to BHS at any time during your high school years?

Stephanie March 27, 2009 • 09:27 PM

Hi Sara, Have you ever considered doing a concert in Central California? I am a pastor there and would love to hear you. How big do your concert spaces need to be? Congratulations on your growing family. I am a pastor of a small church. My husband and I have two little girls: 2 1/2 and 5 months. God's peace.

Gokhan March 27, 2009 • 02:53 AM

Hello Mrs. Sara Grove, Congratulations from Turkey. Me and my wife love so much your songs. Speacially "Hello Lord" song is great.. God bless you...

Bob Brown March 26, 2009 • 10:51 AM

Sara, I have never writen to any one of your caliber so,please bare with me. You have made the Angels sigh. Your gift is far more then this life can understand. Perhaps one day, we can meet and I can thank you and God for your blessed art and Heart. ByeBob

Ray March 24, 2009 • 09:14 PM

Sara, I've got to say the song, "Less like scars" has helped me like you'll never understand. I also cry when I hear "I saw what I saw" - I just couldn't stop playing it until 2 o'clock in the morning one night. I always dreamed of going overseas to help people that don't have any choice. Anyway, I went to the "Love came down" tour that had an appearance south of Boston. I got you to sign a cd for my daugter and I think I told you have a beautiful voice. I was so freaked out that night, a realization kind of hit me. I thought the cops were going to pull me over on my way home (I made sure I did the speed limit!)- that is how afraid I was of things in my life. I think you've got to laugh at that! Well your music has really helped me to start working through some anger issues from the past. Honestly, it's hard to be angry listening to your music. I also wrote my first song - I wanted to share it with you. Here it is: Dandelions I've watched people waste their lives, On something to make them feel better, Anything to stop the pain. I guess I'm like a kid who's fallen from his bike- the scars show for all to see. I'm ready to try again. I don't want to be just another dandelion in a sea of green. It's like walking by a painting without seeing all the depth and color. I can walk by a million people, all waiting to go nowhere. Just trying to pass the time. I don't want to be just another dandelion in a sea of green. In the Louvre, I'd get right up and touch them- Yeah I'd go off in handcuffs, but at least I touched what is real. I've been down the river of disappointment far too many times. I don't want to be just another dandelion in a sea of green. Yeah I know it comes with a price, I'm waiting to pay my dues. I give my kids an extra squeeze, cause you just never know. I don't want to be just another dandelion in a sea of green. I'll see the worst in humanity, I know all my heroes have fallen. I'd have to say I still want to be what Gandi, Nelson Mandella and MLK show me through courage- how to be a man with just one life. I don't want to be just another dandelion in a sea of green. So ever walk by the Seine on a spring day? I've been to different places, seen different faces- just want to make this place a little better, cause the only thing I get to keep are compassion and humility. I don't want to be just another dandelion in a sea of green. [end of song] We'll anyway it's just where I was at a few days ago. Hope to meet you someday. Thanks for the music - I treasure it.

stacy wilson March 24, 2009 • 03:08 PM

Hi Sara you have truely been blessed by God with all your lyrics and songs,, I saw what i saw is a beautiful song.. God Bless sister xoxoxo

William March 24, 2009 • 12:50 PM

How can I adequately express the blessing that your music has been to me? I am a Worship Leader/Songwriter who comes to it late after a lifetime of classical music. In listening to the eloquence of your words I am amazed by what can be accomplished with language coupled with powerful music. I thank God for the gift you give and the hope that comes with that gift. You are a true blessing. May He always grant you grace and mercy throughout this journey we call life. Peace be to you and yours.

Terez March 24, 2009 • 10:06 AM

Hey Sara, Thank you for answering the call and being all that God created you to be. You are a True Worshiper, a Beautiful Spirit and an Inspiration to so many persons in the world today. Continue singing from your heart. Keep pressing on. Love you & your music, Terez

Donielle March 22, 2009 • 03:44 PM

Dear Sara, I wanted to tell you what a wonderfully talented woman you are. I listen to your music while I am in my art studio to keep me focused and in the moment. The melodies are so wonderfully round and moving that I cannot help but be inspired. Please keep creating so I can too. God Bless -Doni

Cindy March 21, 2009 • 01:08 PM

Heard Sara for the first time @ Willow Creek concert was wonderful and touching. Thanks for sharing your self. Could you tell me the name of your lead guitar player he was wonderful too.

John Dotson March 21, 2009 • 09:07 AM

Sara, As a computer geek, I have copied my entire music collection to my computer, approximately 2600 songs. I have enough Christian music that, if I were to listen to it 24 hours a day, I could listen for a full seven days before ever repeating a single song. Not quite two years ago, my wife and I moved from our home in Colorado to be closer to her family in Illinois. You may have even met her when you were once at Cherry Hills in Highlands Ranch! (MOPS, Maybe?) Needless to say, it's been a very rough 18 months for both of us (almost exclusively because of my work) and I realized that I had been receiving comfort in listening to my collection of christian music to remind me of God's faithfulness. During that time, I found that there were certain artists that I gravitated towards, and that within those artists, there were certain songs that I listened to over and over. As of some time in the middle of last month, I think maybe it was a Tuesday perhaps, I was down to one song from one artist. Now, I'm sure that you'd like to hear that I love all your music, and I do enjoy it, but every time I hear "It's been a hard year, but I'm climbing out of the rubble" I cry, and I don't even know the emotion I'm feeling. Can you cry because of hope? It's really embarrassing actually, since I'm normally listening at work when I'm soggy eyed. Less Like Scars reminds me not of the harsh winters in our lives, but of the springtimes that always come, one day at a time. This year, when spring officially arrived at 6:44 AM central time on a Friday morning, the buds weren't on the trees and flowers didn't start blooming, but I did notice a few birds in the distance, and the grass seemed a little greener. Spring, like life, leaves the winter slowly, a day at a time. Why did you ever pick those words? How did you know that a year was about how long troubles last? How did you write music that just boils over with hope? However you did it, I am thankful that you penned the words that give me enough hope to keep going another day. God heals, indeed. From this cracked pot with character-formerly-known-as-scars, thank you. I pray that God richly blesses your work and adds to your blessings.

Richard Snider March 19, 2009 • 06:01 PM

Hi Sara, I enjoy much of your music. Please keep singing about Jesus, especially by name. That tends to be something that falls by the wayside as an artist grows in popularity and tenure. Never let it go that way for you. Carefully avoid the trap of letting social and charitable obligations supplant the place of the pure and simple gospel in your own life; this is known as "forgetting the King in the business of the Kingdom". Our adversary has many devices. Highest Regards, Richard Snider, a Brother

Jose Cuevas March 19, 2009 • 01:01 PM

Hello, I haven't listened to you music yet, but I hear that you are doing some work in Rwanda. I am a friend of a friend of yours. I wanted to find out what type of help you guys need for your mission in Rwanda. Please email me back with what you might need. Thanks Jose

Mike Owocki March 19, 2009 • 12:47 AM

Jesus takes on lyrical form, guiding me through the toughest battles yet seen. Your example of commitment to Christ is cherished.

Cheryl Winters March 18, 2009 • 05:34 PM

Dear Sara, Words could not express the song "Painting Pictures of Egypt" has had on my life. I moved across the country, from Maryland, with my family, hoping to find work, back in September of 2008. We still have not found jobs, and living in the desert in Arizona, makes me completely feel like that song is a part of my soul. I was forced to leave my former job, due to unethical practices of the management, and while we were debating moving here, I know that I have listened to that song at least a hundred times on my small mp3 player. I relate to all of its lyrics, because I feel like I am living in the song. Please don't think that I am psychotic for saying that. It is due to knowing that where I was was a bad place, and where we are now is not a good place, and we will probably move back to the town that I was forced to leave my job, so I am feeling extremely torn, due to not being able to find work here in Arizona, and then moving back to the very place where I felt completely betrayed, and have no future of getting a job there in my career. I am continuing to pray and seek HIS will, and considering other options to head in new career directions. God bless you for giving the world a song to hang onto, when wandering in the desert and searching a purpose in it has been so important to my walk with the GREAT I AM. love, cheryl

Donna Suter March 17, 2009 • 04:59 PM

Hi Sara, I've been a fan of yours forever. I am a seminary student and in my World View for the Local Church class I was asked to make a creative presentation of a ministry. I choose a ministry that I am involved in called Praying Friends of the Bridegroom. This prayer-lead ministry reaches out across the world. A large part of what God is directing involves orphanages and disaster relief in 3rd world countries. I'd like permission to play In The Girl There's A Room and I Saw What I Saw 'under' the Power Point....it and the music challenge the viewer to invest in the lives of children through sponsorships. Naturally, you are credited with the music and there is no money being made. The organization is a registered non-profit and meets all the current standards for Christian Charities. God Bless, Donna Suter

Lyzette Kembababzi March 16, 2009 • 03:24 AM

Hi, my name is Lyzette kembabazi from Uganda and some time about 2 weeks ago i discovered Sara groves. Was watching TV and "painting pictures of Egypt" was playing and I am so blessed!!! I hope i can get ur music when i look around for it. God bless u that was a great song! And, God bless you for the wrk you are doimg in Rwanda. my neighbouring country!! Lyzette

Jennifer McLeod March 15, 2009 • 10:10 AM

My girlfriend introduced me to your music and I love it. It is inspiring, moving, true to the heart, and can bring tears to my eyes and joy to my heart. I want to commend you on your efforts for the children and people of Africa. I would, someday, love to visit and work there and have a positive impact in the lives of the people there. Thank you for all that you do!

Peter Hunt March 14, 2009 • 09:34 AM

I just want to say how much I love your music. There is such a depth to your music and inspiration that could only come from the Holy Spirit. May The Lord Jesus continue to bless and use you. I especially like the fighter song.

Nanette March 13, 2009 • 10:13 AM

Hello Sara, I have to tell you that it was The duet you sang about "laying OUR burdens down by the river side" that MADE me turn to our heavenly father!!! I just want to THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU AND YOUR WONDERFUL FAMILY!

Betsy March 12, 2009 • 09:22 AM

The songs that you have written are so annoited! When I listen to your music, I can feel the holy spirit speaking to me and reminding me of why I am here, to have relationship with him, it's like it cuts straight to my soul and my flesh melts away, my focus becomes clear and I know my life is here to serve God and nothing else matters as long as I am being obedient to him and doing his will things will fall into place. I had to share and encourage, because I am glad you are obedient to God in writting what he puts in your heart to write and sharing it with the rest of us. I know this is a devine gift that comes from him and pours out on the rest of us through the songs you sing! Thank you for listening to Him! -Betsy

Glenn Hilbert March 11, 2009 • 09:55 PM

I have had a wonderful uplifting moment with your music in the recent past and wanted to share. I have worked for my current employer for almost 8 years now. For several years my previous boss had told me that I was doing a wonderful job. I had all of the "High Performing" reviews, the atta boys, certificates of achievement, and the highest annual raises that I could receive. There was a move to create a position just for me to take over our department and for him to go into a different sector of the company. He was a driving force for me. I was very excited! This meant a significant pay raise, a company vehicle, and the recognition I believed I deserved. Then one day I was at a training seminar. The gentlemen that I rode with asked me if I had heard the news. Then I started getting phone call after phone call. The position had been created and they announced the employee to fill it. As you can imagine, it wasn't me. I was heart broken. I felt lost. My mind was in a whirlwind. I went through every emotion possible in about a 10 minute interval. I stayed calm, called and congratulated him, and took a deep breath. I arrived home to tell my wife the news. She was devastated and very angry. Being the most wonderful and supportive wife, she felt that I was not appreciated for my extra efforts. I was in a daze for weeks. This man wasn't even in my field. Everyone at the company was shocked. No one could figure out why it happened. It didn't make sense. I had been successfully acting the job and titled appropriately for a few years now. I asked God, "What are You doing to me?" I was traveling to work one morning a few weeks later listening to one of your cd's. My wife had recently came back from a conference and found a new love for your music. I heard a little of your music when my wife had it playing in the house. It seemed a little slow and not my type of music. Being the supportive husband, I thought I would listen to it and see what the buzz was about. I will never forget the song that came on at just the right moment. My mind began to fade to the work situation. I asked God again, "Why am I staying here, where am I going, what are You doing to me?" This was his answer through her music, "It's going to be all right." Tears fell down my cheeks and I'm getting goosebumps as I'm writing this. This song has inspired me to not worry about what is going on. God had a plan! Through prayer and self-reflection I realized that I was trying to fill a hole in my heart. I thought that I needed to be successful, make more money and climb the ladder to make my wife and family proud of me. I later discovered that God felt that I was placing to much importance on career advancement. I was blinded by a goal that was superficial. I was not focusing on the one thing that would bring me and my family more joy than any amount of money. Through this revelation I have reprioritized my life. I still work for the same company. I spend more energy on helping my current boss and others to succeed. I just recently came back after a few month layoff. God proved again that, "It's going to be alright." I thank God for blessing you with a beautiful voice and your will to allow Him to speak to others through you! Thank you for this time to share! God Bless! Glenn Hilbert (Indiana)

Brent March 11, 2009 • 01:02 PM

I love your music. God has used it to help carry me through a very difficult period of my life. One of my sons and I recently returned from a trip to Brazil, and we set many of our pictures against the backdrop of two of your songs... "Add to the Beauty" and "Just Woke Up..." We want to send the pictures and the video to you as a gift. Many Blessings! Brent

Nicole March 11, 2009 • 02:16 AM

Dear Sarah (and her Dad) I have a seriously ill child - Alice (she's 3 now). A good friend of mine gave my your album 'Station Wagon' one time when Alice was very sick. She said it would get me through. And it did. the song that I loved (and still do) the most is 'Beautiful Child' because I have travelled the world and seen so many inspirational/beautiful places but nothing NOTHING compares with my Alice (Except her big brother Josh). Alice has a rare conditon called CDKL5 there are only 3 girls here in Australia with the condition and only about 60 world wide. These girls can't walk or talk and have such severe seizures that any day could be their last. We have a website www.CDKL5.com and on the website we have 'personal stories' pages. I am making up a page for my Alice and I was wondering if I could play 'Beautiful Child' on the page - it has been an inspiration to me and it is so representative of 'us' that I can't think of another song I want more. I understand if you would prefer me not to - but I would be grateful if you would consider it. Kind Regards ... And thank you for your beautiful music - Nicole, Alice and Josh X

linda March 10, 2009 • 08:40 PM

just looking for new music to sing.listening to your music its so good,do you have accomptment &backgrounds avilable?on either tape or cd?

Heidi March 10, 2009 • 06:26 PM

Dear Sara, Thank you so much for your music. It has ministered to me in so many ways. "Hello Lord" and "Less Like Scars" are my life songs! Thank you! You are a true blessing. I cannot wait to see you at Soulfest09!!!

Laurie Thames March 10, 2009 • 09:58 AM

Dear Sara, You sang for a graduation luncheon at DTS in Dallas several years ago. My husband and I sat with you at the lunch and we so enjoyed getting to know you. Since then I have gone through breast cancer, my closest friend had cancer and passed away along with 5 other friends this past year. I heard your song this morning on the radio going to work - "It might be hope..." and I just had to let you know that that was the first time I felt like maybe there will be hope and better days in the future as the last 3 years have been very difficult. Thank you so much for the "glimmer" of HOPE you gave in your song. We have always loved your music and the words that come with it and the way it touches the heart and soul in many different facets. Thank - keep writing and singing. To God be the glory.

Joel Adamson March 09, 2009 • 10:23 AM

Sara I love your music if you ever get to Atlanta I know a great church for you to sing in, my church Buckhead Church. We wouold love to have you.

Kim March 08, 2009 • 04:43 PM

"It might be hope"...what a moving song. Thank You! I am a 'surviving' widow and seeking hope as much as I can, so I felt this song. QUESTION???--DO YOU HAVE THE SHEET MUSIC TO THIS SONG IN ANY FORM, THAT I CAN PURCHASE? My pastor would like me to sing this song for Easter. Any