Better than a Hallelujah

I grew up listening to Amy Grant. Way back when I was in junior college and university helping out at my auntie's Christian bookstore, people used to come in and tell me that we shouldn't be selling Amy Grant's CDs because she has turned secular with her music.

Well...I had an issue with that because God created music and so we glorify Him by worshipping him. To me, God can be glorified in a Christian punk rock song as much as He can be exalted high through a hymn.

It's not the medium; it's the heart of a believer and the form through which God has inspired him or her to worship Him.  

Here's a recent interview with Amy Grant.

Better than a Hallelujah by Amy Grant

God loves a lullaby
In a mothers tears in the dead of night
Better than a Hallelujah sometimes.
God loves a drunkards cry,
A soldiers plea not to let him die
Better than a Hallelujah sometimes.

We pour out our miseries
God just hears a melody
Beautiful the mess we are
But honest cries of breaking hearts
Are better than a Hallelujah.

Woman holding on for life,
A dying man giving up the fight
Are better than a Hallelujah sometimes
Tears of shame for whats been done,
A silence when the words wont come
Are better than a Hallelujah sometimes.

Better than a church bell ringing,
Better than a choir singing loud, singing out.