Find A Way

Album: Unguarded (1985)
Charted: 29
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Songfacts®:

  • "Find A Way" is the song that gave Amy Grant an audience outside of her gospel fan base. It finds her offering encouragement to a woman who is angry and frustrated - she thinks her man is cheating on her and her friends have abandoned her. Grant has a simple message for her: Love will find a way.
  • This was the first Amy Grant song marketed to pop radio. For most of the song, there's no overt religious message, but near the end Grant puts one in:

    If our God His Son not sparing
    Came to rescue you
    Is there any circumstance
    That He can't see you through?


    The song was a #1 hit on the Christian Songs chart and it had some crossover success as well, reaching #29 on the Hot 100. As Grant pushed deeper into mainstream music, she kept her Christian values intact but left out specific references to God when making songs for a secular audience. This worked our very well; in 1986 she sang with Peter Cetera on the #1 duet "The Next Time I Fall." In 1991 she had a #1 hit with "Baby Baby" and followed it up with the #2 "Every Heartbeat."
  • Amy Grant wrote this song with fellow Christian artist Michael W. Smith, who staged his own crossover to pop music in 1990 with "Place In This World," which went to #6. That song he co-wrote with Grant and the Nashville songwriter Wayne Kirkpatrick.

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