You know how there are certain songs that apply so accurately to your life, and you hear them on the radio or your playlist at the moment you need them the most? That’s my idea behind this Worship Song Wednesday theme. I just want to share these moments with you… and maybe you’ll find that the songs I share here will be the words that you needed to hear, too! This week, a friend shared “Less Like Scars” by Sara Groves with me. She said she immediately thought of me when she heard these lyrics and just had to share it with me! First of all… what a good friend! Second of all, I felt so encouraged by this song and decided to make it my first Worship Song Wednesday post.

It’s been a hard year
But I’m climbing out of the rubble
These lessons are hard
Healing changes are subtle

Verse 1 “Less Like Scars” by Sara Groves

Just a little while ago, I couldn’t feel the power or the hope
I couldn’t cope, I couldn’t feel a thing
Just a little while back, I was desperate, broken, laid out
Hoping you would come

Tag “Less Like Scars” by Sara Groves

Yikes… can anyone relate? Honestly, 2020 was a rough year in general for everyone. So many plans crashing down… loved ones dying… jobs lost… families estranged… mental health rapidly deteriorating… it’s so discouraging! I don’t want to get into too many personal details, but I’ve had a few traumatic events happen in 2020 that I’m still trying to recover from. One event in particular has really caused me to completely reevaluate who I am and rethink my whole future. It completely flipped my world upside down and it continues to throw obstacles in my way while I’m trying to heal from the trauma. I definitely felt what Sara Groves says in the second verse of her song. However, God always uses these excruciatingly painful trials to help us grow in Him! In the midst of the trial, we may not see that. We might feel hopeless.

But every day it’s less like tearing, more like building
Less like captive, more like willing
Less like breakdown, more like surrender
Less like haunting, more like remember

Bridge 1 “Less Like Scars” by Sara Groves

Less like a prison, more like my room
It’s less like a casket, more like a womb
Less like dying, more like transcending
Less like fear, less like an ending

Bridge 2 “Less Like Scars” by Sara Groves

Hopelessness comes when everything is falling apart and we realize we have no power to control it. But GUESS WHAT friends?! We know the One Who does control everything. The more we trust Him and hand over our fears and doubts, the more all of this turmoil will start to look like God’s working in our lives. I know I really had to change my own perspective of what was happening to me. I still have to reign in my thoughts now and again – it’s an ever-waging battle with my mind. But when I look at it now, I see all the good that can come out of it. First of all, I’ve grown closer with the Lord! I’ve also developed stronger relationships with my family members and friends. I have less anxiety/panic attacks. I am more confident and motivated. This world-crashing event that happened is starting to look less like an ending, as Sara Groves said, and more like a new beginning.

And I feel you here and you’re picking up the pieces
Forever faithful
It seemed out of my hands, a bad situation
But you are able
And in your hands the pain and hurt
Look less like scars and more like character

Chorus 1 “Less Like Scars” by Sara Groves

Oh, I just love this chorus! It’s so true! When things are out of our control and we let God take control, we see that He has always been with us. He’s had a plan from the very beginning. He doesn’t cause us pain, but He will use the pain that happens in our lives to pull us closer to Him and help us develop character.

Consider it all joy, my brothers and sisters, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

James 1:2-4 NASB