A hodgepodge of wisdom from Sara Groves.

Hope has a way of turning it's face to you just when you least expect it
you walk in a room you look out a window and something there leaves you breathless
you say to yourself it's been a while since I felt this
but it feels like it might be hope
--It Might Be Hope

Your courage asks me what I'm afraid of, and what I know of Love.
--I Saw What I Saw

Love wash over a multitude of things...make us whole.

So come with Your love and wash over us.
--When It Was Over

I'm going to live my life inspired
Look for the holy in the common place
Open the windows and feel all that's honest and real until I'm truly amazed
I'm going to feel all my emotions
I'm going to look you in the eyes
I'm going to listen and hear until it's finally clear and it changes our lives

There are so many ways to hide
There are so many ways not to feel
There are so many ways to deny what is real
--Just Showed Up For My Own Life

We come with beautiful secrets
We come with purposes written on our hearts, written on our souls
We come to every new morning
With possibilities only we can hold, that only we can hold
Redemption comes in strange place, small spaces
Calling out the best of who we are
And I want to add to the beauty
To tell a better story
I want to shine with the light
That's burning up inside

It comes in small inspirations
It brings redemption to life and work
To our lives and our work
It comes in loving community
It comes in helping a soul find it's worth
--Add to the Beauty

There's a better story
Of true love of true grace
There's the hope of glory
And our first chance to be truly brave
It's the place we're going
When we can't stay where we are
--Rewrite this Tragedy

It's been a hard year.
But I'm climbing out of the rubble.
These lessons are hard.
Healing changes are subtle.
But every day it's...
Less like tearing more like building.
Less like captive more like willing.'
Less like breakdown more like surrender.
Less like haunting more like remember.

And I feel you here.
And you're picking up the pieces.
Forever faithful.
It seemed out of my hands a bad situation.
But you are able.
And in your hands the pain and hurt
look less like scars and more like character.

Less like a prison more like my room.
Less like a casket more like a womb.
Less like dying more like transcending.
Less like fear, less like an ending...
--Less Like Scars

And I don't have to be ashamed.
Hang my head or shoulder the blame.
Wondering if my life's been in vain.
I don't have to be ashamed.
Oh, you did that for me.
Oh, you did that for me.
You wore the chains so I could be free.
Yeah, yeah.
You did that for me..
--You Did That For Me

So many words to say, but I'm opting for silence.
So many days to live.
I thinking I'm sitting this one out.
Cause something I've been chasing finally stop to let me catch it.
Something I've been longing for and dreaming about..

It's a whisper in my ear.
It's a shiver up my spine.
It's the gratitude I feel for all that's right.
It's a mystery appeal that's been granted me tonight.
This peace..

It's something so elusive.
Something close but far away.
It's the home that I can't live in yet somewhere in outer space.
And sometimes I barely miss it when I walk into the room.
The curtains are still swaying and I feel the air move..
--This Peace