Track Listing

1. When It Was Over
2. Just Showed Up for My Own Life
3. You Are the Sun
4. It's Going to Be Alright
5. Add to the Beauty
6. Rewrite This Tragedy
7. Something Changed
8. How Can I Tell?
9. To the Moon
10. Kingdom Comes
11. Why It Matters
12. Loving a Person
13. When It Was Over (Reprise)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8686 in Music
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 2005-10-04
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Customer Reviews

Back to the Future!
Sara Groves has really shown both the depth of her heart and songwriting ability with her album "Add to the Beauty". Her idea was to write an about the kingdom of God and this is exactly what she did. She goes back to a sound closest to her "Past the Wishing" album, which if you haven't heard it, highlights mostly her voice with some piano background. That she was intelligent enough to know that this is what people wanted to hear and also was courageous enough to leave behind the direction in which she had been going is a great testament to her and to her faith. The same cannot be said of many artists in the music industry.
I give this album five stars because I think she earned every single one of them. This album is full of depth and puts more focus on God. If you lost any of your former hope in Sara Groves after "The Other Side of Something", I invite you to put "Add to the Beauty" in your car and go for a drive. You will be pleasantly surprised.

Why it Matters
I saw Sara in concert a couple weeks ago and she ended her set with "Why it Matters" and "Add to the Beauty", in that order. I usually play those two in that order when I listen to this CD. Sara told a story of how some time ago she was struggling with all the yuckiness that's out there in this world (especially in view of being a mom and raising kids in this day), and she was wondering how anything she could do, like writing her songs, could really matter when there's so much darkness out there. A friend told her a story about a man who lived in Bosnia during the war, and while the awful sounds of war were going on outside, he sat in a building in the midst of all that, playing his cello. This really affected her (as it did me when she told it) and she saw how the man playing his cello was like a protest to the darkness in this world. She went on to say that she wanted to live her life in a way that "added" to what is beautiful in this world and didn't add to the darkness. Her marriage, the way she raised her kids, her music - it would all be a protest to the darkness and a chance for the light of the Kingdom to shine in this world. I haven't been so touched by a message in years. I'm a mother of 5 and often worry about the world my kids will go out into. Her songs filled me with hope and determination. I talked to her after the concert and broke into tears as I told her this. She was so understanding and down-to-earth, and she proved to be as wonderful in person as she seems to be in her music. And what a voice! Give me that fresh, real voice any day over the big-voiced divas.

I am completely fascinated with Sara Groves!
I attended a Jars of Clay concert in November 2005 and Sara Groves was the opening act. I had never heard of her before. She sat down at her keyboard, played a couple of chords and then started singing. From the very first pure note out of her mouth, I was completely hooked on her music. This is real storytelling, not commercialized pop. This is probably the best Contemporary Christian album I have ever heard (I'm 32, and I've been listening to CCM since age 10). A beautiful woman writing and singing beautiful music inspired by the most beautiful of all things, God. That's Sara Groves.