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From the hopeful ache of “All Things Right” to the worshipful anthem of “Foundation,” the picture of God’s love is painted in brilliant colors. The result is a
diverse and moving musical commentary of God’s love holding all things together: “not just the created world as we see it and know it, but how God holds
all things together -- even us,” as Tanya states.
Upon closer inspection, the album’s bold approach and delivery is in fact a
hard won victory as it comes on the heels of Tanya’s life long struggle with fear.
“I tend to write about topics I’ve been given the authority to write about by way
of my own struggle and process with God. I feel like I have a PhD in walking
through the fires of fear.
TANYA GODSEY
In
a culture caught up in a fury of differences, fear and uncertainty, the
latest album from singer-songwriter, worship leader and speaker,
Tanya
Godsey, serves as a hope-filled and timely reminder of the unflinching love
of God.
Love Lines The Last Horizon releases on the heels of its first single, “We Are
Your Song.” Praise for the new single and its aim to benefit the work of International Justice Mission was evidenced by the 50,000+ views and hundreds of
shares the song’s lyric video received on Godsey’s Facebook page within the
first 36 hours of its release. This warm reception sets the stage for the release
of Tanya’s third studio album: a new collaboration with noted producer Ben
Shive (Mercy Me, Rend Collective, Colony House) and a collection of songs
inspired by both the journey of the human heart and the condition of the world
in which we live.
Tanya’s passionate, warm alto voice opens the album with “Wild Love,” singing
of God’s all-knowing presence and His power to infuse His love into both the
light and the dark. You circle the world, one sweeping sight/ You gaze on the
guilty and the justified/ And still You breathe and still you breathe in every soul/
Wild love running free in our Father’s World From start to finish, the sincerity of
the message in Love Lines The Last Horizon is framed with Tanya’s signature
piano playing, fervid vocals and an array of cinematic touches paralleling the
spectrum of human emotion.
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After years of being paralyzed by fear, I began to step out and walk into what
Brennan Manning calls ‘ruthless trust.’ I started to pray the hard prayers and
consequently became empowered by God’s grace to do the hard things, discovering God’s love was strong enough to quench my fears and cover my
failures, limitations and questions. I started to believe that not only is His love
perfect enough to cover every square inch and mile of the human heart, it’s
perfect enough to cover my imperfect human heart.
So, this album is my emancipation from fear-from believing I have to be good
enough for God to love me.”She describes the process of this emancipation
in a song titled, “A Beautiful World,” and the joy of this new found freedom in a
blog entry chronicling the evening before the day recording was set to begin:
“On the night of June 29th, 2015, I went to bed with a bit of a Christmas Eve
twinkle in my eye.
No, it wasn’t December 24th, but after four years of learning how to starve fear,
work hard and pray harder, God had gifted us with the impossible. The following morning, I would begin my first day in the studio with one of my dream producers to record a new album that had been excavated from the depths of the
soul mines. My heart was full of gratitude, anticipation and a missional desire
to serve hope to the world.”
But just as the joy of this freedom was setting in on the eve of the album’s
beginning - crisis struck without warning - only hours from her unsuspecting
proclamation of excitement. Tanya describes the unanticipated events in the
early morning hours of June 30th, which also happened to be the first day of
recording:
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