The Song That Came After the Silence
In 2018, a worship leader named Sarah Groves sat in a parking lot outside her church in Franklin, Tennessee, unable to go inside. For eleven...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 40:1-11.
In 2018, a worship leader named Sarah Groves sat in a parking lot outside her church in Franklin, Tennessee, unable to go inside. For eleven months she had wrestled with a depression so heavy she described it as standing at the bottom of a well, shouting upward into nothing. She stopped leading worship. She stopped writing music. She told her pastor she wasn't sure she had anything left to offer.…
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