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By Movieguide® Staff
Grammy-winner Amy Grant is embracing the mysteries of life — and putting her faith in God.
“I think when we’re young, everything seems simpler. It’s important to have the answers,” she said during an episode of the “What Matters With Liz” podcast. “And when you get older, there’s so much more mystery about life, about God, about — it’s like, the more you know about the tangible world that you can see, the more you realize what you don’t know.”
She continued, “I don’t have any idea of the magnitude of this epic story, but I trust it. I’ve shaped my life around it, and I’m counting on it.”
Grant is currently hard at work promoting her first album in over a decade, The Me That Remains, which released earlier this month.
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“The real fun for me was just making it and then putting these songs out and somebody else going, ‘Oh my gosh, that’s my same experience,’” she told PEOPLE. “It’s just like, God, music connects us. And now I got some new songs to sing next time I walk out on stage. That’s fun.”
Grant continued, “At this stage for me, songs are all about connection. And that was not always the case. I’m 65. There was a time when I was like, ‘Come on, you got to move.’ But for me, I feel like I’m right on time and I got a lot less life in front of me than what’s already passed. I’ve loved my life, the good, the hard, the beautiful, the tragic, all of it. But at this point, to be present and to feel connected is the biggest gift of all.”
The singer-songwriter also spoke to CCM Magazine about how her work and her faith intersect.
“I don’t know how to see life not through a lens of faith,” Grant explained. “And so whether I’m talking specifically about the love of God or about my relationship with Jesus, it’s still what undergirds everything.”
She continued, “You just write about life. It’s your daily experiences, what you think when you lay your head on the pillow at night, your prayers, the best jokes… it all shows up in songs.”
“I’ve always been curious about the real story,” Grant said of her work. “To me, it’s kind of like the way a pendulum swings. You want people to have these moments of ‘oh, that was unbelievable,’ but the pendulum swings. And what makes something really joyful is also understanding deep sadness. You have to have both. Life has always been both.”
The Me That Remains is available now to stream and purchase.
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