Amy Grant, 'Trees We'll Never See'

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Amy Grant will forever be the Queen of Christian Pop — angelic bops abound — but that honorific (one perhaps a bit more official these days) belies the earthly wisdom she bestows in both the songs she writes and those she chooses to sing. After open-heart surgery in 2020 and recovering from a bicycle accident last year that temporarily impaired her cognitive abilities, not to mention a throat surgery just this past January, Grant comes back with a meditation on the seeds we sow and the forest yet to come.

"Trees We'll Never See" was found in a song swapping session between Grant and Marshall Altman, who produced Grant's 2013 album How Mercy Looks from Here. The song, co-written by Altman and country music artist Michael White, is a testament to Grant's taste and temperament — heartstring-tugged imagery ("I can see her there in one of dad's old shirts") and a sturdy, fingerpicked acoustic guitar grounded by the tough-but-tender clarity of age and experience. But it's sight without knowledge of what's to come, trusting that strong roots laid now take hold through "love and faith and grace, a little time."