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Remember the Music

Laura Story | Remember the Music

November 17, 2025 | S1 E11 | 24:58

Laura Story | Remember the Music
Laura Story chronicles Laura’s early days, to her exploding on the music scene becoming a CCM favorite.
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Remember the Music | Laura Story | Remember the Music | November 17, 2025
  • >> there were times that we wouldn't know where we would
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  • Sleep that night. we would meet someone at a
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  • Restaurant and we would say we are in a christian band.
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  • They would be like, oh, that is so cool.
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  • We would love to keep up with you.
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  • We could actually go and stay at your house tonight and we could
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  • Play some songs for you. ♪music.
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  • Hello, my name is jaci velasquez.
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  • I'd like to welcome you to this episode of remember the music
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  • Featuring laura's story. laura started touring and
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  • Recording records as a teenager with a band called silers bald.
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  • She did a couple of solo records, then in 2004 a new kid
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  • On the block named chris tomlin recorded a song she penned
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  • Entitled, indescribable. this put laura on the map.
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  • As tomlin's rendition peaked at number two on the charts, the
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  • Following year she married and got a gig at perimeter church in
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  • Atlanta as a worship leader. laura told us that one of her
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  • Struggles has always been trying find the balance between
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  • Marriage, kids, church, the road, song writing, all of it.
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  • When she is traveling she always brings her kids along and it has
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  • Been awesome to parent them. being on a mission for the cause
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  • Of christ, perimeter church has been a home base for them.
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  • She feels like when she is out on the road, perimeter has sent
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  • Her out to serve the capital c. church with god's faithful love.
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  • >> i think perimeter church was probably my first real place
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  • Where i led worship, i didn't think they knew that when they
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  • Offered me the job. i served at perimeter for about
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  • 13 years now and i've loved it. being a worship leader is
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  • Probably my favorite of all my musical opportunities.
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  • My very first record that i remember making, i remember
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  • Selling everything i had. i was this broke college kid
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  • That was just trying to scrounge enough money together to record
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  • Something. it had everything on it from
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  • Really rich songs about my relationship with the lord to
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  • Like christian taylor swift, failed relationship songs.
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  • It was a terrible little cd. i remember when it was finally
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  • Done having someone come up to me and tell me about a song on
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  • The c.d. that meant a lot to them.
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  • It was a moment i specifically remember them saying that they
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  • Were driving in their car somewhere and turned on the
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  • Song. that's when i think it connected
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  • With me. the reason we record this music
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  • Is so people can have these moments where we step out of the
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  • Way. in that moment, yes, it was my
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  • Song but it was the lord that was ministering to her.
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  • It was so sweet to know i was not needed in that moment.
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  • It was between her and the lord. he did something substantial in
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  • Her life and it was a privilege to be used in a small way.
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  • Probably one of the most memorable times i can think of
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  • Being on the road with cast and crowns being pregnant, i'm
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  • Expecting one child now, but when i was expecting to work
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  • When i was pregnant with the twins and sick as a dog, i
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  • Remember looking over, i remember sitting on stage at my
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  • Keyboard looking over there seeing my sweet nanny holding my
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  • One year old and right here next to me was a trash can because at
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  • Any moment i was about to hurl. it was interesting, because you
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  • Dream of playing an arena for ten thousand people and there i
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  • Was really sick as a dog praying that god would help me make it
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  • Through the last song before i vomited.
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  • So we had some amazing experiences on the road.
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  • Definitely character building. definitely faith building.
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  • The song undescribable i wrote, i think i was early twenties.
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  • And at the time, i had this amazing flourishing career as an
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  • Up right bass player in a bluegrass band at a mexican
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  • Restaurant. which i'm sure they paid us in
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  • Chips and salsa. i was going down this curvy
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  • Road, i.40 between asheville, north carolina and knoxville,
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  • Tennessee, i remember it being just this amazing sunset.
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  • The leaves were changing. and everything about creation,
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  • It is like the psalmist said, psalm 19, the heavens are
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  • Declaring the glory of god. as i was trying to take all this
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  • In, i remember a moment of just being speechless.
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  • I think that is where the idea came to me about, god, as much
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  • As he calls us to sing his praises, that is a good thing,
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  • He is an indescribable god. and our words are not sufficient
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  • To really explain or describe his grandeur.
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  • I will never forget driving down the road and all of a sudden i
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  • Hear that song indescribable. at that point in time i played
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  • It for maybe like my mom, maybe a couple of friends, it is on
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  • The radio. it was neat to think, wow! god,
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  • Your scope for these songs we write, it is our job to be
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  • Diligent to say, god, here is my gift.
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  • Use me as you see fit. god is the one that decides the
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  • Scope of these songs. ♪music
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  • From the highest of heights to the depths of the sea.
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  • Creations revealing your majesty.
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  • From the colors of fall to the fragrance of spring.
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  • ♪ every creature is unique in each song that it sings ♪
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  • ♪ all explaining indescribable, uncontainable.
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  • You placed the stars in the sky and you know them by name.
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  • ♪ you are amazing, god all powerful, untameable,
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  • Awesome, we fall to our knees. you are amazing, god.
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  • Yes, you are. indescribable.
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  • Uncontainable. you placed the stars in the sky
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  • And you know them by name. you are amazing.
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  • God. incomparable, unchangeable.
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  • You see the depths of my heart and you love me the same.
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  • You are amazing. god.
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  • ♪ yes, you are amazing, god.
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  • ♪music
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  • ♪music welcome back.
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  • By 2008 laura's story released a solo record that resulted in her
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  • First dove award. she has been honored with a
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  • Grammy and 3 more doves, shortly before that success, laura went
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  • Through a dark night of the soul filled with suffering, doubt and
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  • Unanswered questions. but she refused to let it define
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  • Her. she kept reaching for jesus and
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  • Has become a true inspiration to the rest of us for living out
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  • Our faith, especially in the middle of hard and unwanted
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  • Circumstances. record executive stan moser
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  • Shares the story his friend jeff mosley a fair trade services
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  • Told him about how laura's song blessings got recorded.
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  • >> as we typically are in the record business, you have a
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  • Certain amount of budget you are going to spend to record an
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  • Album doing the production. and you kind of get to the end
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  • And you spend all your money and you are like, we have nine songs
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  • But we need one more. it is like, dear artist, do you
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  • Have something we could do like piano vocal, in other words,
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  • That is code word for we don't want to spend anymore money on
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  • Orchestras. so, the story jeff told me was
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  • Laura said yeah, i have this song i wrote recently.
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  • She sat down and played the piano and played the song
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  • Blessings. and obviously jeff was blown
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  • Away by the song and put it on the record and featured it.
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  • It turned out to be her signature song in a lot of
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  • People's minds and ears over the last few years.
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  • >> the song blessings was written, it began more as a
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  • Diary entry. it was a little bit shocking the
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  • First time i heard that one on the radio.
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  • I'm thinking, wow! they are playing my diary on the radio.
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  • It really was the first time i had been i think that vulnerable
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  • Before the lord. the song is about the journey my
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  • Husband and i have been on for the past ten years, about ten
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  • Years ago he was diagnosed with brain tumor.
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  • A back story on that, we had been married less than two
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  • Years. we were high school sweethearts,
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  • And we had just gotten to the point of learning to balance our
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  • Checkbook. share a home together and all of
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  • A sudden we are sitting with this neurosurgeon who is telling
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  • Us about the brain surgery martin needed because of his
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  • Tumor. i remember him telling us about
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  • This long list of potential complications.
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  • Everything from you may not make it to he could have permanent
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  • Damage to his eyesight. i remember the serious one he
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  • Mentioned, martin may wake up from the surgery and not
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  • Remember anything about his life beforehand.
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  • Thinking just how devastating that would be as brand new bride
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  • With my husband not even recognizing me.
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  • I will never forget seeing him that first time after the
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  • Initial surgery. as soon as our eyes met he said
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  • Laura's story. i was so glad he remembers me.
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  • His very next words were, what are you doing here?
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  • When i started to realize, he knows exactly who i am, but he
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  • Has no idea we are married. which is weird news to break to
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  • Somebody. i don't remember how i shared
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  • That with him. but i will never forget his
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  • Response of looking at me wide-eyed saying, we are
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  • Married? yes!
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  • So it was-- i tell you the funny parts of it because those days
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  • In the hospital, lots of laughter but lots of tears as we
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  • Began to realize what we thought was a detour in the road we
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  • Would have said the plan we had for our lives, we realized it
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  • Was not a detour at all. it was the road.
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  • And we have for the past ten years had to reconcile the
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  • Wonderful plan we had for our lives with the reality we live
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  • In and that life does contain more brokenness than we ever
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  • Imagined. sometimes god does not fix it
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  • The way we think he should in the time frame we expect him to.
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  • The song blessings has been part of our healing.
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  • A lot of people come up to me, blessings, man, you wrote that
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  • Song for me. i'm glad the lord used it.
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  • If you knew me you would know how much i really did write this
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  • Song for me because as a songwriter it is not so much
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  • Writing about these truths we mastered we will impart to the
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  • World, it is the promises of god that he knew that i needed to
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  • Sing night after night to sustain my own soul.
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  • Blessings has been, god's done more with it than i could have
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  • Imagined. he has used it to bring healing
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  • To my own heart. ♪ we prayed for blessings.
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  • We prayed for peace. comfort for family, protection
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  • While we sleep. we pray for healing.
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  • For prosperity. and we pray for your mighty hand
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  • To ease our suffering. and all the while you hear each
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  • Spoken need. yet love is way too much to give
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  • Us lesser things. cuz what if your blessings come
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  • In raindrops? what if your healing comes
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  • Through tears? what it a thousand sleepless
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  • Nights are what it takes to move you near?
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  • And what it trials of this life are your mercies in disguise?
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  • When things betray us. when darkness seems to win we
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  • Know the pain reminds this heart this is not.
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  • This is not our home. it is not our home.
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  • What if your blessings come through angels?
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  • What if your healing comes through tears?
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  • And what if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know
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  • You're near? and what it my greatest
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  • Disappointments or the achings of this life is the revealing
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  • All the greater thirst this world can't satisfy?
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  • And what if trials are this life, the rain, the storms, the
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  • Hardest nights are your mercies in disguise?
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  • ♪music
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  • Call now. ♪music
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  • >> laura's story's blessings went to number one on the
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  • Charts, her fans kept asking her to please write a book about her
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  • Journey so they could share it with their friends walking
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  • Through their own circumstances. she felt compelled by god to
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  • Write it but told him, yeah, i'll do it in my free time
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  • Between touring and song writing.
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  • So god completely cleared her schedule.
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  • She was bedridden with her twins by week 32 and wrote the book,
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  • When god does not fix it, lessons you never wanted to
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  • Learn, truths you cannot live without.
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  • She said it was good for her to write the book and detailed what
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  • God brought her family through including every scripture that
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  • Sustained them.
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  • >> i always come back to this message of how do we continue to
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  • Live out our faith in the midst of hard circumstances?
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  • Because for us, that has been our lives.
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  • Everything with my husbands brain tumor.
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  • It was not just a quick fix. it is him living with
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  • Disabilities. i meet so many people who their
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  • Trial isn't something with any closure.
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  • It is more open-ended than they imagined it would be.
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  • For us, one thing we learned that has been important is in
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  • Order to understand how to live out your faith in the midst of
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  • Hard circumstances, you look to the scriptures and you see that
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  • These bible stories, they are not-- there was a problem god
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  • Showed up and everything's great.
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  • You see people who, like paul, ended up in prison for his
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  • Faith. on some level things never
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  • Really got better. but, you read his letters and
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  • You see a guy who learned joy for the first time in a prison
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  • Cell, just by trusting in jesus. we see a guy who is singing
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  • Praises because of what god is doing in his life even though
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  • Got did not necessarily change his circumstances.
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  • So i'd say the scriptures have been the main thing that carried
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  • Me through but also a community of faith having people around me
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  • To remind me of god's goodness when life is hard.
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  • More than anything, realizing the very essence of faith is
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  • Believing god's promises even when the road is tough.
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  • I wholeheartedly believe it is not necessarily about things
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  • Getting better, i believe you can get better.
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  • I believe when we hope in the person of jesus, christ, it is
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  • Not just hoping that he will change our circumstances.
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  • It is truly finding hope in him. the lord says cast your cares on
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  • Me. throw your burdens to me.
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  • Believing he cares, believing he is capable of changing them.
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  • Even if he does not, will we continue to trust him in the
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  • Midst of the hard road? probably the most meaningful
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  • Event i've been part of was also one of the hardest.
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  • We had come together, a group of artists to go play this arena in
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  • Newtown, connecticut. max lucado put the whole thing
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  • Together. it was called a "night of hope
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  • And healing." it was for the community of
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  • Sandy hook elementary. it was about 3 weeks after the
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  • Horrific shooting. it was, the think the thing so
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  • Interesting about it, we had come together because we wanted
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  • To do something to help. it was not until we were there
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  • In the community, standing in this arena, meeting the guests
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  • Who were first responders and school administrators and
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  • Teaches and family members. it was not until then that we,
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  • You see something on the news but it is not until you are
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  • Standing there with them and hugging them and praying for
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  • Them that you realize just the gravity of the loss, how great
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  • Of a tragedy it was. even though we all got up there
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  • And we got to cry through our songs and wept with them, the
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  • Lord really did a special thing that night.
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  • It was exactly what max had desired.
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  • A "night of hope and healing." because through the tears and
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  • Weeping we began to see people, i remember talking to man who
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  • Said this is the first time i cried about this.
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  • And began to help people process their grief.
  • 00:20:58.303 --> 00:21:02.407
  • More than anything, they whether thankful we showed up.
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  • We showed up and let them know how much we love them and how
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