You could sum up all the words in the universe that describe astounding love, mercy, freedom, hope, power,and grace.Those words would only scratch the surface of this song.From the beginning of the song that tells how a loving God could reach down and save a lost, blind and miserable soul. The teaching power that is always avaiable when we need it. It has the ability to let us see how He has brought us safe through the trials of life and the assurance that grace will be there to lead us to our heavenly home. It gives us the wonderful promise of time without beginning or end to worship the One who shed His blood for the salvation of our soul. The words of this song has had a impact on lives since it was first written and will continue to do so until the end of time. I love this song and have found it to be and encouragement and a blessing to me. It has never failed to move my heart.

The words ring like the antiphonal response to the sweet song, “Sometimes I feel like a motherless child”. The “amazing grace” that only a mother or a father who gives his all for his children. Somehow even though I felt untreasured and like an obstacle, I felt most of what affected me had nothing to do with me. I gleaned the nurturing in the hard caliche soil for my own growth. I know that because I did more by God’s grace than just survive and continually seek to serve and help even in places where I did not feel welcomed and accepted. I can accept myself more because I feel accepted and affirmed by the power and grace of the universal cosmos. Without my acquiescence or agreement or attempts on my part to please, I accept the tacit mercy and love that comes from God sometimes through those special moments with my mother, my father, my grandfather, my uncles, my aunts, my neighbors, my brothers and sisters, the minister, the teachers, the people I have helped and assisted and sometimes total strangers. I often experience this grace, love and mercy even from pets, nature, a good cup of coffee or tea, a special song or tune, a good movie, a book, a poem, the stars, the season, a dream, a cause for social justice like abolition, civil rights, and peace in a world of injustice, slavery, oppression, war, lies and self rightious inequality.

the song means to me that God is singing for freedom, rememberance of those who passed, those in sorrow, grief, love, hope, faith, and happinessand most of all he is there for each and everyone of us.

Amazing Grace is like peace and saddnest at the same time. Alot of times in my life when I have heard Amazing Grace it was at a funeral. Just last week at church they played it. I love singing that song and knowing one day i hope to see the Glory of God and my wonderful loving grandparents. When this time on Earth is over and I am with the father, the son and all the people that had gone to a better place.

Amazing Grace How Sweet the Sound that Saved a Wretch Like Me – So many times I’m thinking I’m going down a fairly straight narrow path with only this and that to do only to find that had God not reached down and put obstacles (or popsicles) in that path and even sometimes carrying me, I would have never made it. Now I not only have glimpses of my Heavenly Home, I look forward to it. When I say I made it, I am referring to the condition of my soul, refined by fire as the scripture says, and I know that is what really matters to HIM. The obstacles were horrific, the popsicles were miracles (I even have a journal now where I have listed them just in case I should ever think I survived and succeeded on my own). The point is God loves me. When all your support systems fail, as mine did, I had HIM and in HIM I had the Church family and in the Church family I had direction and hope. I was blind but now I see (and it was, in retrospect, beautiful…)

Amazing Grace has a very special meaning to. I am a recovering addict with 5 years clean and I know that is only by the grace of God. When I was in my active addiction, my life was being run by the devil. I did whatever was necessary to get one more, I did things I said I would never do. I left my family, I prostituted and I was spititually bankrupt. I was lost in the disease of addiction and could not see a way out. I know in my heart it was God who choose to sit my down and get me off the streets and out of the dope houses by locking me up. This gave me time to soul search with a clear head as to where I have been and where I want to go.
I praise God for His grace and mercy everyday. I look back at my addiction now and realize how many times my life could have been taken in an instant. I believe God was with me and kept me safe from the guns put to my head, the bullets flying by and the johns that robbed me by knife point. God’s grace kept me safe and has now offered me a life of hope. Everyday clean is only through His mercy on me, I know he has brought me this far and as long as I continue to believe and have faith He will guide me the rest of my days. I know share with other addicts how God saved me from me and how He can also save them if they want to be saved. God is so Good! Yes, He is Amazing!

By the grace of GOD,I am the music director at a small little church nestled in the north Ga. mountains. I lead our little congregation in singing praises to GOD each and every Sunday. We sing hymns like “I’ll Fly Away” and “Heavens Jubilee” and “I’ll Meet You in The Morning”. These songs are about that homeland GOD has promised that he has gone away to prepare, and he will return for his children one day. OH… BUT “AMAZING GRACE” speaks of what JESUS CHRIST has already done for us all. How could someone love me so much that he would lay down his life for me, after all I have done, JESUS loved me first and gave his life for a wretch like me. I make it very plain to everyone in our little congreation this song is by far my favorite song in the whole world. One of our youth, knows this so well, when recently she decided to learn to play piano the first song she wanted to learn is “Amazing Grace” so she could play it for me, I cried as she played. Her playing made me listen to the words in my heart again, what a blessing to know how much JESUS loved me, how much he still loves me. To me “Amazing Grace” is a sacred hymn that will never get old or be renewed. I think it is just like JESUS… The same yesterday…today… and forever.

Amazing Grace means release of forbidden spirits; This hymn was being sung in a church and when the verse I was once was lost but now am found was echoed, I got out of my seat and was at the altar, I do not know what all happened after I left my seat; but since 1973 at college; this song has been an inspiration to me. This was a predominantly white church and me a lowly African American subject; This songs lets me know that God is not prejudiced in where he can reach our mind and heart. And we should be the same way.
For many times I have been lost and definitely Jesus found me, I was blind but now I see. If I could just reemphasize all that God has done for me in my hours of darkness; but I realize I cant tell it all; I just give God and Jesus all the praise and the world should praise Jesus also in everything.
Amazing Grace means release; freedom; peace and love and what ever else the holy spirit has to offer; And when ever I am feeling down this hymn picks me up and get me to going on my way. I can’t sing it like i want to but I am always trying; if ever the holy spirit was in works; it definitely was in the soul and spirit of this writer; praise God, praise Jesus for Amazing Grace and how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me.

To sing or hear the song Amazing Grace brings tears to my eyes and joy to my soul. Many times in my short life I have been delivered from the cluthes of evil. Many times my life has been spared because of God’s Grace. Because of His Mercy. Because of His Love. And I want to say Thank You Lord. I Need to say Thank You Jesus. I Praise you Lord God. Early in the morning, all through the day, late at night I Praise you Lord. Because you are Worthy. Glory to you Lord Jesus. Glory to You Lord.
That’s how Amazing Grace affects me. Everytime I hear or sing this song I give give thanks to the Lord and I praise Him.

I feel like I’ve known the song Amazing Grace all my life. It has just always been there. One of the most special moments involving the song was at the annual Scottish Games near my home in Liverpool, New York shortly after the crash of the plane containing several students from Syracuse University, (we are a suburb of Syracuse) that occurred over Lockerbie Scotland. As we silently stood and listened a lone piper stood on a wooded hill in the park where the games were being held and played Amazing Grace in memory of all those who lost their lives in that terrible moment. The sound of the pipes and the words in our hearts were a blessed moment.

On a daily basis, I am amazed that God loves me enough to send His son to die on the cross, the one time blood sacrifice for my sins. It is only by His grace that I am free from hell and the torment that awaits those who refuse to believe that Jesus can forgive them of their sins; all they have to do is ask. “Amazing Grace” was the last song my nephew sang at my precious mother’s funeral and, of course, I can never listen to the song without the tears flowing. I miss my mother so much, but by His grace, she is right now sitting at His feet, praising Him. By His grace, my father joined her 8 years later. God took them home to be with Him, and by His “Amazing Grace”, I, too, will join them at His feet, giving Him my crowns and praising Him for all eternity.

I always thought I had the perfect little family. Happy children and loving spouse, large comfy house, good friends and family. Then one day it is all gone. Middle son turns into a run away and on to worse. Husband has an affair then a few years later dies of a massive heart attack. A year and a half later oldest son commits sucide. Our daughter and my self left to struggle with bills and life. My heart was dark and lonely. I found my way to church and I could feel God’s love surrond me and hold me tight. One day as the entire church sang Amazing Grace I felt God ‘s spirit fill me on the inside, it began in the pit of my stomach and grew filling my arms and legs and on to my very breath. All I could do is cry. This power, this love, this understanding … a knowing that if I followed God and did not quiver everthing would be good again. If I allowed God to do His work my family would come back from the darkness and into the light. It has been eleven years from that day and I have had many challenges through that time. I walk with God everyday now, no more taking Him for granted. He is there for me and I will follow Him forever. Life is good. “Unconditional love!”

AMAZING GRACE The Grace of God is Amazing. The Grace of God has always been with me, even when I didn’t know it was. I’ve only been a Christian for 7 years and oh how my life has changed.
Last year I decided to bring my aging parents to the state I live in so I would be able to take care of things if necessary. God was speaking to me. As it turns out I only had my Dad with me for a short 6 months. He died in May after three months of terrible incidents which finally ended up in a massive stroke. My dad was a marine in World War II and the Korean War he was so proud of his country. When I arranged his funeral I had Amazing Grace played and our congregation sang it as well. With voices that praised God so beautifully. It is the only Hymn that really says it all for me. What a wretch I am. What a gift of love for Jesus to show us by making the ultimate sacrifice to save a wretch like me. I will always walk in the light of Jesus no matter what. Jesus has shown me a new peaceful way of life. He has given me many blessings. He has given me Amazing Grace. I will always ask Him what he wants and needs me to do. He can use me any way he wants to. I will be forever grateful for the time I spent with my father in his last months, because of God’s infinite wisdom I finally got to know my father. Now I can put that to rest and serve my creator, my Father. Have you looked around today. How can we doubt we were created? Amazing Grace How “Sweet” the Sound.

Amazing Grace, I am a singer professionally, but I cannot sing this song without being reduced to tears. I can sing many other songs without falling apart, but not this one. Jesus reached down into the ugly places in my heart and replaced the dark, hidden, secret sins and desires with light and peace. God’s amazing grace is not his amazing justice. Truth without grace is dead (Hebrews). If I am without love/grace I am a clanging cymbal, not a ringing, pure bell tone. So to me the wonder of it all is that he picked me to be one of his own when I so deserved to have justice served me. That is so nearly unbelievable that being reminded of the reality and freedom of his grace when I look at his cross restores and grows my faith. If dying on the cross for me (in my place) isn’t enough to make me understand he loves me, then nothing is.

The word “amazing” connotes surprise and/or unexpected occurences. That’s what amazing grace is. We have no reason to expect to receive it. It’s a surprise gift to us from our loving Father, through his precious son, Jesus.

What else could that Grace of God to sacrifice His only son for US be called…if not “Amazing”? That’s what this grand hymn means.

I have been a Christian for only a few months but I know that the spirit of the Lord has been with me all along. I’m a single parent of 3 I was struggling to get through life but once I started listening to the Lord my life has change tremendously and the song Amazing Grace to just tells me and makes me feel how Amazing our Father above is. If it wasn’t for God I wouldn’t be where I’m at today…….. I love our Father above….

I was in a situation, “away from home”, where God was doing for me what I could not do for mayself. I sang “Amazing Grace” every night. I cried, prayed and thanked God for the realization I was going through…with His help. God’s Amazing Grace was what brought me through that specific time in my life. Things I used to take for granted, I no longer do. I share many stories with others of how God shed His Grace on me. I felt so undeserving and lost. But now I am found. I thank God for opening my eyes and ears and heart to understand what He was trying to do for me. I am very grateful! I still can’t sing the hymn without crying. God is AWESOME! And His Amazing Grace is what has changed me!

After living almost 72 years,I am constantly and continuously amazed at the Grace of God.I have taught for 48 years,raised two children,had over nine major surgeries,and am still living life because of Him and his Grace.This is a hymn that moves me to tears and goosebumps every time I sing it or hear it.

The history of the hymn first comes to mind, then, inspires memories of those who have selected it as one of their ‘homecoming’ songs to reflect on the immeasurable grace we have received. I can only agree with the lyrics that as a sinner saved by that grace, I can look forward to those first ten thousand years and what undeserved reward that will be. And, oh, to hear it on bagpipes or other wind instruments – it doesn’t even require the words to be soul-moving!

The song Amazing Grace, explains what God is all about.
The amazing grace shows for us everyday, his love.
How he loved us so much he gave up his only Son to save us. That defines graces and the examplfies that so beautifully.

Amazing Grace is one of my favorite songs and was my mother’s favorite hymns. This song to me is a constant reminder that God’s grace is so amazing that he loves us so much even when we are unlovable that He extends his grace to us day by day! Great is His faithfulness!! Praise God for the Amazing Grace because it saved a wretch like me!

THE 1ST TIME THIS SONG REALLY IMPACTED ME WAS WHEN I HAD BEEN INVITED TO A CHURCH IN ATLANTIC CITY. I WAS A SINGER IN THE CASINOS AND A DRUMMER AND LIGHT TECHNICIAN AT ONE OF DONALD TRUMP’S CASINOS APPROACHED ME ABOUT COMING TO THEIR CHURCH. (THEY SAID THEY COULD HEAR AN ANOINTING IN MY VOICE AND THAT GOD WANTED TO DO SOMETHING WITH ME.)THESE 2 MEN AND THEIR WIVES MINISTERED TO ME THROUGH THEIR TESTIMONIES, AND LITERALLY OPENED THE DOOR TO JESUS FOR ME.I DID VISIT THIS CHURCH AND(TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT)I WENT DOWN FOR THE ALTAR CALL.KEEP IN MIND I HAD NO IDEA WHAT “AN ANOINTING” WAS, NO IDEA WHAT “LAYING ON OF HANDS” MEANT,& NO CONCEPT OF WHAT AN ALTAR CALL WAS.
AS I STOOD AT THE ALTAR CALL,THE SONG PLAYING WAS AMAZING GRACE…
I HAD NEVER TRULY UNDERSTOOD THE SONG TO ITS FULLEST UNTIL THAT DAY.
AS I STOOD WITH EYES CLOSED AND HANDS LIFTED, I BEGAN TO SMELL A SWEET OIL AND SUDDENLY FELL BACKWARDS AS I HAD BEGUN TO ASK GOD TO CHANGE ME.
I UNDERSTAND NOW WHAT HAPPENED IN THAT MOMENT, AND AMAZING GRACE HAS REMAINED IN MY HEART EVER SINCE. THAT WAS ALMOST 20YEARS AGO, AND THE SONG MOST REQUESTED FOR ME TO MINISTER IS “AMAZING GRACE”. WHAT AN IMPACT THESE ANOINTED LYRICS AND MUSIC HAVE HAD ON MY LIFE. I THANK GOD FOR HIS UNMERITED FAVOR TOWARD ME.

I agree with Sue and gcleek completely. I get chills when it is sang or played. Especially bagpipes. It fills me up with such spirit. It is so hard to even express my feelings. I tear up just thinking and knowing how grace has brought me and so many of us through. And to now know the history of such an inspirational song is so wonderful!!

I agree with Sue and gcleek completely. I get chills when it is sang or played. Especially bagpipes. It fills me up with such spirit. It is so hard to even express my feelings. I tear up just thinking and knowing how grace has brought me and so many of us through. And to now know the history of such an inspirational song is so wonderful!!

I heard this song the first time in church. I did’nt really understand it or it really did’nt hit me what it meant until the death of my friend and roommate. At her funeral, when singing the song, I feel I really understood the words. Then at the death of my uncle, I too had a deep feeling and increased understanding of the song. I feel I didn’t realize how fragile we are and how weak we are. I do now realize that no matter how weak or strong we are life is short and we need to get into touch with God. There is no better a time than now. Because of the song and lifes happenings, I feel that my stregnth in church and with God has increased. Although I associate the song with death, I also associate it with a wonderful thought that my family and friends that have gone before me are now in a better place and are no longer in pain, not suffering , and are needed for Gods work a litter sooner than we would like to accept. thank you, rhonda

This song is a reminder that no matter where we are or how dirty we might think we are that God’s amazing grace can find us and clean us up. That we do not have to clean up before we come to him. He (God) finds us, we do not find him. He (God) is not lost. We are. God Bless!

Amazing grace meand family, faith, and belife for me. It is a song of God’s amazing grace and his undying love for all His people. It was my three Daughters’ favorite hymn as little children. It has been sung in our home for all occasions from birth to death. It is a song about inspiration

I didn’t grow up in a religious home……just the opposite! When I got saved and gave my life to God I heard this song……tear my heart out!!!!!! This is still me, sometimes I still get lost but He always finds me, no matter who sings it, or what version ( there was a Cherokee version sung by a young lady for a long ime on the internet….wish I could find it again) and an updated version by a Christian rocker (his name escapes me) called Grace Like Rain (awesome)but it still comes down to being found (though we’re never really lost from God)by our very loving Creator!!!

THIS SONG HAS BEEN ONE THAT HAS HAD EN PACK ON ME SINCE I WAS A CHILD.
I REMEMBER I WAS AT CHURCH WITH MY GRANDMOTHER STANDING NEXT TO HER TALL SLENDERER BODY BOOK IN HAND SINGING THESE BEAUTIFUL WORDS. I THOUGHT THIS HAS TO BE A BEAUTIFUL WOMEN FOR HER TO BE SO AMAZING.(I WAS REALLY YOUNG) IT WAS YEARS BEFORE I REALLY UNDERSTOOD THE WORDS AND THE TRUE MEANING OF THE SONG. WHEN MY GRANDMOTHER PASSED AWAY IT WAS THE 1ST SONG SUNG.MY HUSBAND PASSED AWAY AS SO MY MOTHER AND IT WAS ALSO THE 1ST SONG. IT TRULY IS AN AMAZING SONG! WHEN IN TIME OF LONELINESS I SING TO MY SELF.
SO IN TIME OF NEED LONELINESS SORROW OR EVEN JOY AMAZING GRACE WILL ALWAYS BE THERE.

Amazing Grace was the first hymn I learned when I was seven and taking piano lessons and have always love it dearly. The next time it played a great role in my life was when I was 13 and I sang it in Church before my baptistism. At age 50 I was in my darkest moment and was in slavery of alcoholism and drug addiction. I was at the moment of defeat and asked God for help. He truely showed me mercy and grace and led me into a program of recovery and a awesome relationship with him.Two days later Amazing Grace came on the radio and I truely at that moment understood how far I had fallen living a life of a wretched lost soul and had been truely blind to the pain and suffering I had cause in my family and friends lives.I was once truely lost and alone but for the Grace of God I’ve been restored to my faith in God and myself and have trulely been blessed and saved. Amazing Grace has been a song I so can relate too.
Praise God
Connie

Amazing Grace reminds me of the grace that God extends to all of humanity. To His followers as well as those who consider themselves non-Christian. God’s love and grace reaches out and surrounds us each and every day no matter what mistakes we have made in the past. The song reminds me to be thankful to God for His amazing love, grace, and mercy that is abundant each day on this earth. God wants me(us) to reach out for His amazing grace and to find that grace each time we find ourselves in dire situations and in need.

God forgives us for all of our sins- as humans we will make mistakes but are forgiven nonethless when they happen. Living a life with Christ as part of it, is what being Christian is all about- reach out and help those who cannot help themselves.

This song means alot to me because it set all slaves free. We can now live in a world without bondage if we belive.If we open our eye we can see no different colors of skin . And If you are lost god will help you thur .I was bless to be raised in a christian family.I hope that some day this song will touch everyones heart.And mean as much to them as it does to me. It’s amazing how at every diaster this song seems to be played this,this tells you something right there.

I heard this song while at a Chris Tomlin Concert. Lou Giglio spoke during the concert. He looked me straight in the eye, or so it felt, and told me that ” my chains are gone”. ” I’ve been set free”. The liar that tells me I’m doomed because of my sin is wrong. The truth, God’s word and promise, is that God, in His mercey and grace, sent His cherished son to ransom himself for my sin. I am forever His because of his Grace. Forever.

The hymn Amazing Grace means so much to me because of what God has done for me in my Life and how even though the enemy has tried to throw hurdles at me and tell me that I was still in chains to sin I would say you know what Satan “My Chains Are Gone” and the Spirit of Life that is in Christ Jesus has made me free for the Law of Sin and Death. Romans 8:2 that is why Amazing Grace means so Much to me.

Amazing Grace means to me that I was saved I was a wretch and the Lord came and swooped me up in his arms at a very bad time in my life. He showed me the right way to live. He showed me there was a purpose for living. I once was lost and now I’m found. HE SAVED ME!!!!!!

amazing grace to me is a song that transends every generation, I heard my parents singing it in praise growing up.. it was a song to me that meant freedom from all things that hold us back.just the words alone hold so much power..(AMAZING)something that captures out attention.. (GRACE)the power to help others and a pure love of others ..put those two words together and you have the love of jesus christ and the gift he gave by shedding his blood for us on the cross..truly amazing grace

This song reminds me of my salvation through Jesus. We are saved through faith by God’s Grace. Unmerited favor from God. Just like the song, “Amazing Grace” we can’t even comprehend how amazing God’s love and grace is for us.

This amazing song “AMAZING GRACE” iNSPIRES MY IDENTITY, on WHY I EXIST.This inspiration song has to do alot with my fingerprint and my soul- My life’s choice’s has been pardon by Grace but my soul has not been inslaved by my consequences When i sing this son. I sing with no burdens or warrents holding me back. The world might or will prosecuted how i want to live my freedom and be liberated from it (BURDENS), but the world wants to take away my songs that leds me (always) to an unspeakable salvation. This song wakes my uncousiouness and set’s sail to the most utter feeling no one can define.

“MY CHAINS ARE GONE…I’VE BEEN SET FREE” WOW. WHAT AN AWSOME FEELING, KNOWING THAT AFTER ALL WE’VE DONE, GOD’S LOVE IS ALWAYS THERE AND HE FORGIVES US. I AM PART OF THE MEN’S MINISTRY TEAM @ MY CHURCH, AND ON THE LEADERSHIP TEAM THAT HELPS MEN FIND THEIR HEART BACK TO THE WAY GOD INTENDED. GOD HAS BLESSED ME WITH 4 WONDERFUL DAUGHTERS, AGE 23-12.
THAT BEING SAID….DAUGHTER #2 TOLD ME THIS SUMMER THAT SHE WAS PREGNANT {UNWED}.HOW CAN I BE PART OF LEADING MEN TO GOD WHEN I CAN’T EVEN HAVE ALL MY KIDS LEAD A GOD-FILLED LIFE? WELL THE WAY I FOUND OUT WAS MY EX TOLD ME I HAVE TO TALK MANDI INTO AN ABORTION. WE’RE DOING JUST WHAT GOD DOES…HATE THE SIN, BUT LOVE THE SINNER.
“MY CHAINS ARE GONE…I’VE BEEN SET FREE”
IN GOD’S LOVE DAVID >

Amazing Grace is one of my most favorite hymns. It reminds me of my mother as she sang it often as it was also one of her favorite hymns. It moves me very much to hear it sung or especially to be able to sign it either in church or in my home. I have sung it for years and even as a lullaby for my three children, now all grown and now to my grandsons. My daughter even asked me to sign it at her wedding, but I was not able as I was too emotional but very honored that she had asked. I have requested that it be played and sung at my funeral.

I grew up singing Amazing Grace; not only in church; but standing behind my grandmother’s chair when she was sewing. Also learned alot
of other hymns. I thank God everyday for sending His Precious Son to
shed His blood that I might be saved. That God loved us before we were
even born enough to send His Son, is truly God’s Amazing Grace.
Was also glad that it was chosen to be sung in the first Left Behind
movie.
I still sing it in church, at home, or whenever it pops in my mind!

I was raised in a Baptist Church called “Nazarene Missionary Baptist Church” Where Christ Was Born” and every Sunday My Grandmother sung this song .It means the world to me, whenever I Am feeling Down and Out.I know my LORD and SAVIOUR Is Carrying ME .I Feel The Holy Spirit Come Over Me.Nothing in this world can bring me down!I always say “Keep GOD First And The Sky Is The Limit”.Our Father Came on earth to show us how much he LOVES US He Will “NeverForesake Us”.I AM A BELIVER IN JESUS CHRIST!!!!! No man on this earth can take that from me.

The song “Amazing Grace” was the last song I sang to my grandmother on her death bed. She died of cancer about 3 years ago. That song brings me closer to her and to God.

Amazing Grace was my mother’s favorite hymn and she had sang it as far back as I can remember. When my mother died my sister and I picked some of her favorite hymns to be played at her funeral and Amazing Grace was the first one. I had my emotions under control until the organist started playing Amazing Grace and then I started to sob uncontrollably and sometimes still do. When I hear Amazing Grace I instantly think of my mother and thank god he blessed us with the mother he did. She has been gone for 9 years, I am 51 years old and not a day goes by that I don’t miss her and would give anything to have her back for just one day and hear her sing Amazing Grace one more time. Now when I am rocking my granddaughter to sleep Amazing Grace is my favorite that I sing to her. She will grow up singing it and hopefully she will pass this beautiful hymn onto her children someday so that my mother’s memory and her favorite hymn will live in our family’s hearts and minds forever.

MY MOM PAST AWAY 3 YRS AGO FROM BONE CANCER. AMAZING GRACE WAS MY MOMS FAVORITE HYMM. SHE WOULD SING IT TO MY NEPHEWS WHEN THEY WERE SMALL AND IT WOULD JUST QUIET IT THEM DOWN.

The sweet sounds of this song have been a source of comfort and strength for me.
Closing my eyes, I feel the power of God’s goodness, wrap around me and fill me with peace. The author of this song felt the weight of his transgressions and poured out his heart with the song. I too,am swept with power of God’s grace and love.
Amazing Grace…..how great is our God!

I have always loved the song “Amazing Grace” and when I heard it sung by Chris Tomlin I fell in love with the video and the song. Every time I hear that song it reminds me of how I was before I became a Christian and I am so glad that I’ve been set free. Amazing Grace our God provides!! AMEN

Just this morning I was speaking to an older gentlemen I cook for about “Amazing Grace”. We were talking about a various sundry of things when we got on the subject of hymns. He was telling me of his Mother and her love for all the old hymns. I had to interject something of my own. My Grandmother, Virginia, had been diagnosed with leukemia in her late 80′s. “Mom Dit”, as we kids called her had given me my upbringing in the Baptist Church. Every weekend when I was little, I would spend the weekend with “Mom”. She would curl my hair and I remember the dotted swiss dresses with puffy sleeves and little white gloves I always wore to Church. “Mom” was a Sunday School Teacher and sang in the choir. My own Mother, her daughter, was an accomplished pianist and had a voice like an Angel. I recalled to Mr. B how we would hear Momma in the kitchen at the old upright, playing and singing in the middle of the night sometimes when she couldn’t sleep. When she got a little older and was a member of the First Baptist Church in Alachua, Fl, she, too, was a choir member. Momma would be asked to sing the solos at times…her favorite and “Mom Dit’s” was “Amazing Grace”. I remember like it was yesterday, when my Grandmother was so ill in the hospital. I had come to be with her and Momma til the end of her time here. To this day, I remember Momma holding her Mother’s hand and singing hymn after hymn. The one she was singing as the last breath left my Grandmother, was “Amazing Grace”. To this day, whenever I hear that beautiful hymn, I get a lump in my throat and go back in time to sitting and watching my Momma sing to her Momma as she passed over to the Lord.

Amazing Grace is my peronal testimony. For it was God’s amazing favor, his grace that delivered me from the bonds of sin. Each sentence I can relate to in a personal way. I once was was lost on the path of self destruction. I was blinded/decieved by the trickery of Satan. But, GOD through his amazing grace and his continueous mercy took me out of my lost state and put me on a street call straight. He, through His word and the working of His Holy Spirit in me opened my eyes to see my sins, the need for repentance and to experience His glory.
It never fails, everytime I heard the song ‘Amazing Grace” it helps me to rememember the goodness of the most high GOD. That He chose me, inspite of me. I am thankful for His grace and He is truely amazing.
Blessings

Grace is an amazing thing in itself. But, what would really be amazing is if we all would live our lives according to the actual definition of Grace: It means Mercy; clemency; A favor rendered by one who need not do so; A seemingly effortless beauty or charm of movement. A characteristic or quality pleasing for its charm or refinement. A disposition to be generous or helpful; goodwill. Divine love and protection bestowed freely on people. The state of being protected or sanctified by the favor of God.
A short prayer of blessing or thanksgiving said before or after a meal. Does anyone out there remember that? We never were allowed to begin eating until grace was said over the food. It is a form of respect and gratefulness for the things God has gracefully given us.
What does Grace mean to me? It means everything. It is what God dispenses freely. It’s doing something for someone without expecting something in return. It is by what we are saved through faith. It is something this world needs a lesson or two in. Without it we are lost. If we continue to be selfish and not gracefull the world is headed exactly where the Word says it’s heading; to the last days. To me, as I am a Christian, that is a good thing.
Whatever happened to full service filling stations? Nothing happened to stations themselvs. They are still out there. But the people who own them refuse to do something for nothing. They no longer dispense grace to their customers. God forbid that they do something and don’t get paid for it. A few guys at work refused to go to a company function the other day. Can you guess why? Yes, they weren’t getting paid to go.
We have lost the beauty and charm associated with grace and have instead become and ugly, charmless world. It’s no wonder the suicide rate is skyrocketting. No one cares anymore. Why live in a world where nobody cares for others; nobody cares about our rights; nobody loves their neighbor, muchless themselves; nobody does anything for free.
Yes, grace is everything. Did Jesus come to redeem us because He got paid to do it? I don’t think so. He came freely and He died freely out of grace for those He loves.
Here’s my version of the beloved song;
“How Amazing Was Grace To Me”
The sound of Grace was indeed sweet to me.
I was a wretch in need.
The things of this world had blinded me.
By the Grace of God they were opened and now I can see.
It was Grace that taught
me not to fear
And by Grace
that I’m still here.
In the darkest hours
Of my sin filled life
How charming that Grace appeared.
That very hour I begin to beleive.
All the dangers, toils and snares;
My mother tried to warn me about.
Twas Grace that taught me to care.
And Grace will take me there.
The Lord is always good to me.
He has given me hope and now I feel secure.
He is my armore and my shield.
As long as he allows me to live I shalll not fear.
When I’m gone for thousands of years,
The sun will still burn brightly.
I will sing God’s Praise;
The praise He deserves so rightly.
The sound of Grace was indeed sweet to me.
I was a wretch in need.
The things of this world had blinded me.
By the Grace of God they were opened and now I can see.
Now the Original; Amazing Grace
“Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me….
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now, I see.
T’was Grace that taught…
my heart to fear.
And Grace, my fears relieved.
How precious did that Grace appear…
the hour I first believed.
Through many dangers, toils and snares…
we have already come.
T’was Grace that brought us safe thus far…
and Grace will lead us home.
The Lord has promised good to me…
His word my hope secures.
He will my shield and portion be…
as long as life endures.
When we’ve been here ten thousand years…
bright shining as the sun.
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise…
then when we’ve first begun.
“Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me….
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now, I see.
Amen!!!

Amazing Grace, Jesus giving his life for all our sins,-Alpha-omega-how awsome is he that can lay his life down. That’s Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace to me has always meant comfort and the feeling of being safe. It brings me back to simple thoughts and allows my mind to be at peace.

I praise God that I was brought up in a loving christian family. We were poor (still are) but that is ok. “God is Able”. Amazing Grace is my all time favorite hymn. It brings my heart so close to God every time I hear it. We don’t hear enough of the old hymns anymore. The new christian music is wonderful but the old hymns are and always will be my favorite. God Bless all of you at beleifnet.

It was indeed amazing grace that could find a wretch like me, pick me up from where no one else could dare come and sit me amongst princes and princesses.
It was the amazing grace of God that unlike everyone else that thought I was a nobody made me realise that I was and actually am a somebody.
It is this same grace that causes my heart to believe and to hope in the one that has loved me.Even when days are dark this grace reminds me that though sorrow lasts for a night, Joy cometh in the morning! And when I feel like I can’t handle it anymore thia amazing grace reminds me that God’s grace is sufficient.
Everytime I think of the amazing grace I can’t help but bless the Lord for the AMAZING GRACE

I Believe that Amazing Grace is the most beautiful song that was ever written. That GOD’S Grace is something WONDERFUL and OUT OF THIS WORLD. That Grace is Amzing and that GOD is EVERYTHING and HIS WORDS are in the song of AMAZING GRACE.

God must have bessed me as I’m still here. I didn;t live the most gentle life but he saw me though it and thinks go better with God in my life.

I can remember hearing the song Amazing Grace my entire life but it was the first time that I heard it on bag pipes that I really listened.
It is my favorite of all hymns and the lines “Through many dangers, toils and snares I have already come but GRACE has brought me safe this far and GRACE will lead me home” is my favorite. There have been so many times when I have felt down and alone and I can hear these words and I know God is here and I will be all right.
Today was one of those days. I was feeling down and checked my email and there was this ad from Beliefnet and I listened to several artists’ rendetions of Amazing Grace and felt better at once.
I think the movie will be great and I am anxious to view it.

Amazing Grace tugs at my heart strings. It takes me closer to God. It reminds me that I am a child of the Loving Father. When I don’t know how I should pray it puts my innermost longings into words. It reminds me that this temporary earthly home will one day give way to my real home!

amazing grace was always sung in our little church when i was a child. to hear it means to remember my parents and life then, how simple it was. it is a sentimental memory of better times.

Amazing Grace has been such a special, meaningful hymn to me my entire life. I remember singing it as a child and now it has an even deeper meaning to me, as I have walked with the Lord for 50 years.It is one song that is old and ever new; just as the Gospel is. As I get more friends and family on the other side, its meaning just gets sweeter.I pray that my grandchildren will grow up to apprecaite the meaning of the hymn also. What a depth of meaning the song has. It has truly stood the test of time. No contemporary song will ever claim that longevity and that depth. I am so thankful for the song.
Norma Duncan
GArland,Texas

As kids, me, along with my brother and sister sang this hymn everyday in the evenings in our living room with our grandmother. This has now become a part of our individual families.

The song Amazing Grace is so awesome. It speaks so loudly and clearly of Gods love, peace, protection to all. Every time I hear the song no matter ehat I am doing I stop and start singing. It send chills up and down. Gods mercy and goodness over rides all the trails and troubles in out lives. Personally, I have always loved the song and hope to hear it more and more.

Amazing Grace is my personal theme song,that always reminds me of how God. Saved and delivered me from the bondage of sin and spiritual death.

Through the depths of depression and my frailties, He lets me know the strength of His grace and mercy. Desperately clinging to the truth of His Word–His Word working mightily in me–is the reason I am living…I once was lost,very lost, not from Him but from myself; now Alive! How awesome He is!

It was good to see the realistic rendition showing that things may not happen overnight despite good intentions, etc. The struggle for justice in many areas may take many players, God’s working of circumstances, much prayer, intercession and God’s guidance!

I have always loved the song Amazing Grace! Just by looking at the title, it tells you pretty much about the content. I believe in a God that loves all of us inspite of imperfections. The only way we can return back to God is through the Grace of our Lord. As long as we try our best, and be kind to others, The Lord will Bless all of us. But, we cannot return to God without his Grace, even though we are a “wretch like me”. And the verse that states, though I was lost, now I’m found, means God has saved us with his Grace, all we need is to have Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Amazing Grace, means freedom.

When I hear “Amazing Grace” It reminds me that there is hope in the times of hopelessness.

Amazing Grace has been one of my favorite hymns as long as I can remember. If you listen to the words, they bring you hope and fill you with inspiration. It did to me. I even presented it to my religious ed students at a weekend retreat, and I talked to them about my past failures in my marriages and how I wanted to die after my husband cheated on me. I told them how important to never give up and to ask the Lord to pick you up and give you strength when there is noone to turn to.I fell into a deep depression and took sleeping pills, but then I realized that my life was not over and I came back to the Lord. I started going to church, teaching religious ed at my parish, and just praising the Lord every day of my life. Amazing Grace is as the title says–Amazing and the Grace is the grace of the Lord that works in our hearts. I break into tears every time I hear this hymn because it reminds me of the times that I was lost and how the Lord saved me, how I was so weak and a coward and the Lord picked me up.

Amazing Grace is what i met and made it through my childhood.
Amazing Grace is what should be sung or qouted not to be heard twice there are some of us that have ADD. Amazing Grace is the best thing alive. God created everything and after the fall, He created a way for our sins to be forgiven. that is the best Amazing Grace there is.

I love Amazing Grace and the story behind it. How it came to be written should be an inspiration to eveyone who hears it. I would love to have it to be able to show it to my son, who has is an alcoholic and lives on the street. Maybe it will help him to know there is hope no matter what the circumstances may be. I missed it when it was in the theater but have read the story many times. It is wonderful.

Amazing Grace is a reminder that is truly is only by God’s grace that we sinners are saved. Nothing I can do here on earth can make up for my sinfulness. It is God and God only that releases me from bondage of sin and death. Through Him sending His son Jesus Christ to suffer and die for me, I have eternal freedom. This song will be forever a favorite to me but it reminds me in simple stated truths. I am a sinner redeemed by God’s Amazing Grace!

Amazing Grace, How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. This song makes me cry each time I here it. I was 10 years old when I got saved and was listening to this song being played on a piano. My life was turned around and I was fully protected by the armor of God. I came from a very abusive homelife, and I always felt that I was alone and at one point I even thought that all kids had the same background and this was my life. God’s grace and mercy showed me that I was not alone and the he would protect me. I would not have made it through my childhood years without His AMAZING GRACE. He Blessed me with the ability of discernment for protection and at 18 years old I refused to listen to one of the warnings and I ended up losing my what I thought was my “best” friend and my “wonderful” husband, for several years I was angry at God for allowing this to happen. It took this song and lots of prayer to realize that I was to blame, I disobeyed and there was consequences for my actions. I am now remarried to wonderful man that believes and relies on God, and God again has blessed me with discernment for protection. Amazing Grace, it will set you free.

What a wonderful film!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My family of four were glued to the TV! Really brings it all home and makes you think and want to react!! God bless these people! Everyone should see this film! Through amazing grace, we can change the world!

I saw the movie right after it was released. I always knew the black slaves did not want to be bought and sold, however, I never realized the horribleness of the entire slavery world. How the slaves were not only kidnapped, never to see their families again, but how they were put in the belly of a ship without food or water and made to row to another land and IF they survived, big IF, they were then sold. The dead were thrown overboard without any guilt or thought. If GOD can forgive this inhumanity of those guilty, then HE can forgive and love us now. I would share this DVD with others and use it as a ministry tool for the Lord.

“Amazing Grace” is and always will be EXACTLY what it says it is….salvation from our Almighty!! Thru the amazing grace of God we can spend eternity with Him and ONLY thru this grace.
Having not been raised in a christian home or even exposed to the word of God I can remember, as a child, hearing two songs that made me “feel different inside”…and that feeling has remained. As I grew older and came to know these songs as “hymns’ I then understood their “prescence” when I would hear them. It was HIM “holding me close even when I did not know Him.” (The two songs were Amazing Grace and Just as I Am.)
Just as you are today He can and will save you thru His Amazing Grace…if you will only place your trust in him and ask for His forgivness.

Simply and forgivably, AMAZING GRACE IS remarkable love!!

My grandmother passed away 2 years ago this Past October. She just took her last breathe while driving in my mother’s car. My two cousins (they are sisters) sang Amazing Grace at her funeral and it was so Amazing that there was not a dry eye in the funeral home. My grandmother was the glue that held us all together. And we were concerned that we would all far apart. But us cousins vowed that we would not let that happen. So almost every Saturday we get together and play cards and enjoy what family really means. We might of missed about 3 Saturday’s, it has been Amazing. Thank you.

Amazing grace is a remarkable hymn and states what christ did when he died on the cross.

“Amazing Grace” is a hymn that most of us have sang hundreds of times before. After you sing it for a while, the words just flow from your mouth, with no meaning behind these words. This was the case for me as well, until just recently. My life used to be overcome by fear and doubt, drugs, and worldly things. When my marriage was rocked by infidelity, my husband and I turned to the church for help. The infidelity stuck an epiphony. God is the only answer to everything in this world. This life is only a mere glimpse into our future of eternity with God. This life is a test. We all do horrible things in this lifetime, but it is through His grace that we are saved. Grace is a gift. When we think we have ruined our entire lives, the gift of God’s grace can save us. I will forever be grateful for the words of Amazing grace, the most powerful words in my mind being, “we’ve no less days to sing God’s praise, than when we first begun.” How amazing is that? If we turn to him, and belive, we have eternity ahead of us. I will live my life by the words of amazing grace, because it is through this hymn that the realization of Christianity came to me. Thank you Lord for your grace! I love you, and only live to serve you for eternity.

Amazing Grace is what we see when we are forgiven for our sins. To be truly forgiven takes both love and understanding on the part of those whom we trespass against. Forgiving is the same thing as forgetting and only the most graceful are capable of that. We cannot always forget about those who do us a wrong, and that is the grace spoken about in this hymn. Can you imagine if Jesus said to you, “Child, I forgive you and you may enter my home. But you can only sit in the front room where everybody can see you?” How humiliating would that be? You would not be truly forgiven because it was not forgotten. Jesus forgives AND forgets our trespasses. That is what amazing grace means to me.

The ‘Grace’ of “God” is ‘Amazing’ in that it is a gift to all whom accept ‘Him’ in totality without any reserve or question that ‘He’ alone is “God” having none above nor before. The ‘Grace’ which “He” gives is unmerited by man, we cannot fathom the depth nor height because ‘His’ thoughts and actions are above us. “God’s” ‘Amazing Grace’ is wrought in our lives to save us from ourselves that we may love because “He” loved us before our existence upon earth and it is through this ‘Grace’ from which our humble and pathetic lives continue for without “Him” there is nothing which we could do nor know. Thank you most Holy Father, Holy Son, and Holy Spirit for Your Mercy, Grace, and Loving Kindness at all times. Bless Your Name with all that is in my heart, soul, and spirit for You are worthy of all praise.

“Amazing Grace” has always been a family favorite. In 2000 my mom passed away from a form of cancer that affects the brain. She requested that my daughters sing a song at her funeral. This was the song that they chose. Since then, “Amazing Grace” has been a strong song that I listen to whenever I feel down or miss my mom. My sister even named a daughter “Diana Grace” after our mom and the song she loved. I guess that this new version even says it more. God gives us the grace to accept daily trials and to loose those chains of trouble and fear. I have finally been attending a great church for the last 8 weeks and now that I am back in church, I understand even more the sacrifices of the ages. “God bless and Merry Christmas”

Amazing Grace, His grace is truly amazing. In helping with a ministry for the homeless in Baltimore City, I see and feel the amazement of God’s goodness and grace. When we are able to provide boots to a man with size 13 feet who didn’t ever believe he would get a new pair of shoes and he stands there with tears streaming down his cheeks there is no better feeling than that feeling God gives us. God is good all the time. When we lift these individuals up and make requests for them through prayer and the item comes our way within the week it makes my heart leap from my chest. Yes, His Amazing Grace. I know how the man who wrote the song felt when he wrote it. I am so blessed to be a blessing to others. I am happy that God is using me to help others in need.

Everytime I sing Amazing grace, I think of the sufferings of Jesus on the Cross to save a wretched soul like me. So everytime I am down, or I am sick, I sing this song and it encourages me to go on. I heard my Dad and my mother sing this song many times. Life was hard then but everytime they sang the song it was like another burst of energy for them and they would always be ever so grateful for the Lord’s amazing grace. Jesus has been so wonderfully good to me and so whenever I see the sun rise or I see the beautiful colours of nature, I cannot help myself but sing this wonderful song “Amazizng Grace, How sweet the sound, That saved a wretch Like me. I once was lost but now I am found. But blind but now I see.”
Thank you for giving me this opportunity to tell you how much I love Jesus.
Elsie Collie

I am a single Mom of 3 awesome kids, my oldest is in a different state attending college, that leaves My 11 year old daughter & my 8 month old baby boy. I have had every type of struggle there is since I have been doing this on my own & I am going on 40 & just plain tired. So when I hear “Amazing Grace” it reminds me that God is shinning down his glorious love-pulling me thru another day. And the true blessings I recieve everyday is his Grace & Encouragement to Trudge on. Also My “Saving Grace” is My 11 year old, without her help I would have lost it long ago. Thank You Jesus for all The Blessings You bestow on me & my children daily & Getting us thru with your Amazing Grace!!

I have lived an amazing life, by so many life experiences that has made me realize how I have been saved in many wretched ways. The Lord has found my soul and spirit, when I was so lost in this karma world, and also taken me through life experiences that I can see so many things ahead of me without having glasses on, but not being blind anymore. I have lost many loved ones, and had to hear that sound of how amazing the Lords grace is, that at every burial sight I was content with saying my many good byes. The final Amazing Grace song that I heard that made me realize how blind we are in life, is when I lost my only Son in a fatal car crash four years ago. God has truly kept me in my right frame of mind even through some of the roughest days. Now that the holidays are in, Amazing Grace is all I have to keep me morning, noon, and night. How sweet the sound, how amazing our God’s grace is.

Amazing Grace is a song that brings back sad yet happy thoughts. I lost my dad when he was 60 to early tp pass away. My dad was a great man and God is lucky to have him in his house. It’s sad for us not having him here with us but God has a plan for each one of us. This was the song that was played at his funeral. I could never purchase the CD because everytime I went to purchase it I would just cry. By winning the CD I don’t has to be embarresed at the register crying. Thanks so much for listening to my story. Susan Guiliano

praise god

If wasn’t for Gods’ Amazing Grace where would i be ?where would I be??
You have to sing “America The Beautiful” to the tune of “Amazing Grace”
it is not only amazing but grace filled…Gods’ Blessings To You !!!

IF WASN’T FOR AMAZING GRACE AND THE LOVE OF OUR JESUS I COULDN’T MAKE IT .HIS GRACE IS MORE THAN SUFFICENT WE DON’T DESERVE HIS GRACE OR LOVE
YET HE LOVES US ENOUGH TO SAY I FORGIVE. I AM A GRANDMOTHER OF 2 TEENAGERS WITH THE OOLDEST WE ARE HAVING TROUBLES WITH DRINKING I KNOW THAT GODS GRACE & LOVE WILL CHANGE HIM.AS IT HAS A LOT OF SINNERS I AM SO THANKUL FOR HIS LOVE AND GRACE. MAY GOLD BLESS YOU EVERY DAY & ALWAYS WITH GOD.

“Amazing Grace” is my cleansing, theraputic, “my heart wants to jump out of my chest” song. When I’m sad and hurting I sing it in the shower. I just stand there letting my tears flow with the water. When I finish I feel cleansed and unburdened. It releases me from the pain I was feeling. I also sing it when I’m happy because I’m thankful for the love and blessings GOD has given me and I can’t contain that joy. Sometimes it’s my “just because” song. Because it’s such a beautiful song I just want to sing it.

Amazing Grace tells me about God’s everpresent compassion and grace no matter what we do even though I at times feel like a wretch this sing uplifts me and reminds me of my priorities. It reminds me of a caring God full of grace which never ceases to amaze.

It is Gods good grace by faith that saved a wretch like me. So yes it is Amazing Grace. Thank You Jesus.

In August of this year I had an awaking… I was told I had colon cancer and it had to come out. I began searching to find out all I could about the disease. God had a different plan for me.. I kept praying it would be healed.. but no, instead It was my time to recieve his amazing grace.. He blessed me first of all by having my husband to hear a word from Him “rise up, go forth and know I am with you” And second after being anointed by His work He placed a halo over my head.. One lady in bible study recognized it and I accepted it as being from our Lord and Savior. From the very first visit to the doctor who did my colonostopy to the Christian nurse was provided to help me through the time of decision to have a operation. God’s timing was in this as well. She only works 4 hours one day a week and He had me there on her workday. She suggested a Christian surgeon who when I walked into his office had a picture of himself in surgery with who else but Jesus. I knew I was there at the right time. I am pleased to say that my stay in the hospital was one where I knew I was being taken care of by angels of mercy.. There love was so evident for the 13 days of my stay. I had so much support from family, friends, sisters and brothers in the Lord I was overwhelmed by His amazing grace to me. I am at present recovering, free of cancer and realizing His Amazing Grace minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day and week by week as He continutes to complete me as His work of grace.