The first e-mail I ever got from Ann was signed “All’s grace, Ann.”
That little phrase stopped me. It’s a powerful little sermon isn’t it?
All’s a gift. And it’s all I need. All sufficient. And for all.
If all’s a gift then it’s not mine because of my intellect. The pressure’s off to be the brightest.
If all’s a gift then it’s not mine because I earned it. The pressure’s off to work the hardest.
If all’s a gift then it’s not mine because I’m good. The pressure’s off to be the best.
All’s grace.
Humbling. Stilling. Also purpose giving.
To be like the Giver, to be inhabited by the Giver, is to be giving. To give as He gives: To give all. To all.
I will bless you, God promised Abraham, and you will be a blessing to all. So John wrote that we know what love is because Christ laid down His life for us. We’re to go and do likewise, he says. And to give this kind of love because it’s the kind we were given first…and are still receiving daily in a thousand ways.
All’s grace.
On a good day I slow down and meditate. One way I do this is by saying a truth out loud, adding a word each time, thinking about each one as it’s tacked on.
You
You have
You have loved
You have loved us…
Late last night the meditation became a song. Then I mixed it with a prayer. Then closed with Ann’s sermon: All’s grace.
All’s Grace from Shaun Groves on Vimeo.
All’s Grace
Words & Music by Shaun Groves
(C)2011 Simplicity Street/ASCAPYou have loved us
You have loved us all
You have loved us all so
We love allYou have blessed us
You have blessed us all
You have blessed us all so
We bless allThank you for Christ and cross
Through us tell the wand’ring
Thank you for making peace
Through us love our enemiesYou have loved us
You have loved us all
You have loved us all so
We love allYou have given
You have given all
You have given all so
We give allThank you for daily bread
Through us fill the empty
Thank you for bodies whole
Through us mend the breakingAll’s grace
All’s grace
All’s grace and grace enough, o
All’s grace
All’s grace
All’s grace and grace enough
For all of us
For all of usYou have loved us
You have loved us all
You have loved us all so
We love all
I love it!
Simple and profound, just like it should be.
Thank you for sharing it!
I echo this.
How often we overlook the simple and miss the depth completely.
Thanks Shaun.
Thanks for sharing Shaun, love the song. can’t wait to hear the album!
Nice man. Very nice.
Yep, I’m stoked for the album to be complete. This is beautiful.
Sidenote: the librarian in me couldn’t help being distracted by the books in the background WHICH HAVE SPINELABELS and (I assume) are shelved appropriately. How awesome is that? Who’s responsible-you or the wife? I think someone deserves a round of applause!
Thankful for this, Shaun.
<3 (This is a heart in text-talk, meaning I really love this song!)
This is a beautiful song, Shaun. Such a simple message, yet so deeply profound and merciful.
All’s Grace. Beautiful…
Beautiful! Profound!
My roommate walked in about halfway through the song and was humming along by the end. Catchy, too.
And I still love all the books.
Katie
I just really can’t wait for your CD to come out.
That is beautiful, Shaun.
Oh my…breathtaking!
You’ve blessed us with this song. Loved it.
Thank you for feeding my soul tonight.
Love it!!
Love, love, love it!!
When I first started reading A Holy Experience that was the first line that jumped out to me, too…I have now claimed it as my own. It truly is all grace…
I was reminded of this very message yesterday as I taught my Sunday School class of children. Phillip shared the truth about grace to the Ethiopian. I shared the message of grace with those precious children, but what I was taken by was the message of grace that resonated in my heart with freshness. One of the children said something about death and the thought occurred to me that even in death, there is such deep and rich grace for the believer. We are not worthy in life or death. But GRACE. All’s Grace.
Beautifully written Shaun!
Two thumbs up from the Happy Brown House! I so needed to hear this today, Shaun. Thanks for sharing!
Love it…
Love the song!
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Ann’s book. I read it all the way through and now am going back through it chapter by chapter and just soaking in the grace and truth.
Your blog and her blog are by far my 2 favorite places to read because God meets me there and here all the time.
Thanks!
Thank you for posting this song. It’s simplicity is it’s beauty – and the words go deep.
If anyone wants to know why I do what I do in future, I will point them to this song. Thank you x
Really like it. Thanks for sharing.
Listened to the song…took a deep breath and then just…floated.
Thanks for the reminder.
Home run! Beautiful.
beautiful.
For the record, i saw this yesterday, but reFUSED to be the first comment again. ; )
You can really bring some lyrics to life with that voice of yours. Lurv it.
Proud of your power of restraint. You go girlie!
Why, thanks.
*blushes*
Baby steps, Jessica
So honest. Love this verse:
“Thank you for daily bread
Through us fill the empty
Thank you for bodies whole
Through us mend the breaking”
Can I use it as a dinner prayer with the kids?
Good work!
-Katie
Beautiful idea.
May I steal it?
Can’t wait for the album
excellent.
Truly beautiful, because it is so beautifully true. Thank you.
love all the grace
Should be a hit as my 3 year old is now singing..
You loved us all….
Beautiful Shawn…perfect.
My three year old is singing it too!
Nice.
I agree, a hit.
Love everything about it! Beautiful!
I find beauty in simplicity…simple messages, simple songs, simple scripture, in the simplicity is often a deeper and beautiful message.
Really enjoying it man.
Do you mind if I send my brother here to learn it and teach it to our worship team for use on Sundays before you actually get to record it?
Hope you’ll sing it live in Valdosta…counting the days!
Valdosta? When? I want to be there.
Love the song. Love the book. I’m making my list. Would love to put hearing you, Shaun, on it.
This song. This message.
It’s wrecking me.
Thank you for this, Shaun.
Beautiful, beautiful.
We sit under a fourteen foot blanket of snow today in Oklahoma. http://oneroofafrica.blogspot.com/2011/02/forced-rest.html
Grace of forced rest.
And I am just all happy tears with this simply beautiful art.
Gift from Creator artist to musician artist.
Beauty for the world.
Yes, grace.
Remarkably, undeserved, awe-inspiring grace.
All truly is grace.
Michelle
P.S.- A few years ago you shared our story on your links page…do you remember? Anyway, it’s taken quite a turn: http://oneroofafrica.blogspot.com/2010/06/one-step-closer.html
But through it all we are more aware of the Father’s great kindness and unfailing love. His wildly-beautiful grace has covered our family.
We’re without words but completely grateful for His Steadfast, unfailing Love that carried us through this heart ache of a year.
And our newest gift, a constant reminder of it: http://oneroofafrica.blogspot.com/2011/01/steadfast-unfailing-love.html
Oklahoma is not under fourteen feet of snow…let’s try that again.
We’re sitting under a fourteen INCH blanket of snow….
wow.
really good.
good, good stuff. thank you.
it’s something to see god working through one and then another and then another.
i appreciate the humble partnership that comes from friendship in jesus. i hope for the world to see more and more of it.
Beautiful…simply beautiful.
Thank you!
Awesome! Something I need to be reminded of everyday. Thank you!
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Wow, just wow. That is such a moving song, I’m trying to hold back the tears. I might just share this on facebook if I remember to do so later.
One thought I had though, when you begin recording a new song, do you often find yourself singing eyes closed as you remember the words? I know some praise songs I find myself doing this at times, especially if the song seems a lot like a prayer, but was just curious.
It’s a focus thing for me. I’m easily distracted with my eyes open so when a song’s new I – SQUIRREL!
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