I met Kiran a few months ago, but if I live a hundred years I’ll still remember her. Her house is a box six feet wide and four feet deep with a roof made from sheets of plastic held in place with rocks and sticks. There’s not enough room for Kiran’s two brothers and father… 
Posts Tagged ‘songwriting’
I’ve Got You (Repost)
No Better (Repost)
When asked by a magazine to make a public statement about a friend’s sin I wrote a song about my own instead.
No Better (Demo) from Shaun Groves on Vimeo.
No Better
Words & Music by Shaun Groves
(C) 2010 Simplicity Street Music/ASCAP
When you sling your stone
Aim it at her heart
Where every crime comes from
Where every stumble starts
And save…
In Light Of That
You can paint the sun or you can paint what you see by the light of it.
In 2005 I took a trip to El Salvador that changed my priorities, politics, finances, marriage, theology. For the first time in my life poverty had a name – Yanci – and face – brown and sweaty and smiling.…
You Will Always Have The Poor
This is a reposting from my trip to Guatemala with Compassion Bloggers. I woke up with this sermon on my mind this morning – trying to wrestle it into rhyme and melody today. You will always have the poor…the opportunity…the gift of giving.
In a sanctuary turned classroom and gymnasium, over a bowl of chicken and…
Dream Co-Writer
There was a time when I had far more words than melodies to work with. But then I started blogging and all the words got used up. Actually, I don’t know how it happened but today I have a dozen or so melodies and not a word that fits them. A dead Prussian missionary is…
All’s Grace
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.…
About Shaun — Shaun Groves is a communicator who’s known by a lot of titles: Singer/songwriter. Speaker. Blogger. Husband. Daddy. Friend. He feels and thinks deeply and laughs easily. And he’s helping Christians discover what they were saved for, and being a voice for children around the world, desperate to be saved from poverty.
