Re: secular songs of praise
Well, "secular..." I immediately thought of the late Dave Carter's Gentle Arms of Eden, but there's a "goddess" in there, which takes it out of the secular realm. However, if you listen to the words, seems that the "goddess" is really a flesh-and-blood person, since Carter sings:
I will lay my burden in the cradle of your grace
And the shining beaches of your love and the sea of your embrace
which seems pretty immediate and not at all supernatural.
In any case, a great song:
I've heard Tracy Grammer do quite a bit of Carter's music, and his untimely death in 2002 deprived us of a really distinctive voice.
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