Mosaic by Amy Grant

Win a copy of Amy Grant's new book, Mosaic

When I recently received the opportunity to review Amy Grant’s new book, Mosaic, I took it without hesitation.

Amy's ministry of music had a great affect on my early years as a Christian. Both her lyrics and her music had a way of bringing me into a deep state of worship with God. My sister and I spent countless hours singing and worshipping as together we grew in friendship and faith. Curious to know more about this famed singer, who's matured age to age, as I have, I opened the cover of her book, Mosaic: Pieces of My Life So Far, and began to read...

Mosaic provides a doorway into the life of an ordinary girl who found herself blessed with an extraordinary career. Like transparent glass set together piece-by-piece, Amy records bits of her life down on paper. Taking us into her world, this best-selling Christian music artist of all time, shares stories from her early years, telling us what led to both her first recording contract and concert. We also get behind the scene stories of some lyrics written, and through pieces of her life we see a different side of Amy.

Filled with pictures, this beautiful hardcover book is a keepsake for Amy Grant fans. Through it we meet her parents, her family, and her friends, along with wonderful stories about familiar people among who are George and Barbara Bush, Kevin Costner, and Billy Graham.

The stories are personal and heart-warming, but perhaps the most heart-warming to me was a journal entry I read that Amy wrote to a friend living with cancer in July 2006. Here is a portion of it from p. 179/180:

Don’t go
Not yet.
I cannot hear you say we’ll not make music on the hillside
When we are old and gray.
Or discuss our stretching skin or your gorgeous,
voluminous hair.
I so enjoy your regal face,
and the lines collecting there.

This beautiful woman—now forty-six—lives with the same concerns that many of us do, when it comes to balancing our time, accepting our aging process, and getting enough sleep. Amy writes, “Like everybody else, I wish I were in better shape or had planned an upcoming event a little more thoroughly. I wish I were neater. I wish I weighed what I weighed when I was in the thirties. But all those things are for another day. This day—at a hundred and forty-five pounds, at forty-six years old, with a few gray hairs and not quite enough sleep—this is the day the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it.” p. 144

If you would like a chance to win a copy of the book, go to CWO at:
http://www.christianwomenonline.net/index2.htm
I'll be giving away three books, so you have a great chance of winning.
Click the email link in the review I've written over at CWO and I'll put your name in the draw.

I heard that Shannon Woodward over at Windscraps will also be reviewing the book sometime this week at her blog, so if you're interested, you can pop in over there too!