Why it matters
On Friday I received a new CD, the Sara Groves album Add to the Beauty – and as per usual there follows the period of obsession with it. Much as I don’t usually particularly like Christian music, for general listening, I am really taken with this album. My current song favourite is called "Why it Matters". For starters it contains a quite divine cello interlude, and for the rest it speaks to me about what the daily reality of the Christian life should be: of how we should get along side our brothers and sisters and remind them of the gospel, of the promises of God and of the power that will keep us to the end; of the importance of what we do with each day and our "efforts at narrating" that gospel story; of how we are to witness to those around us with something outstandingly different, something beautiful; of how we should reach out to all people with compassion and attention in the midst of life’s chaos and be a "rampart for soul" and of why it matters that we give to those in need. And it’s all said so poetically and sung so beautifully ...
Why It Matters
by Sara Groves
Sit with me and tell me once again
Of the story that's been told us
Of the power that will hold us
Of the beauty, of the beauty
Why it matters
Speak to me until I understand
Why our thinking and creating
Why our efforts of narrating
About the beauty, of the beauty
Why it matters
Like a statue in the park
Of this war torn town
And it's protest of the darkness
And this chaos all around
With its beauty, how it matters
How it matters
Show me a love that never fails
Some compassion and attention
Midst confusion and dissention
Like small ramparts for the soul
How it matters
Like a single cup of water
How it matters