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Around time that Winans had been accepted to college, the television show "The PTL Club" (now known as "Praise the Lord") took interest in her and her brother Benjamin (BeBe) as potential background vocalists for the show. They were accepted after going to North Carolina to audition. BeBe and CeCe moved to the PTL campus in North Carolina, and were on the show for about five years. It was during this time that CeCe met her husband, Alvin Love, Jr. who was also from Detroit. During their time on The PTL Club, BeBe & CeCe recorded Lord Lift Us Up on PTL's label following popular demand on the show. The success yielded another effort, "Feels Like Heaven (With You)". Eventually the success warranted another effort: a full length album.
BeBe and CeCe left PTL to pursue their singing career and recorded four more albums including Heaven, Different Lifestyles, First Christmas, and Relationships. In 1995, BeBe and CeCe split up to pursue solo careers and other interests. However CeCe Winans' official website indicates that the two will release a reunion album in 2008.[1] BeBe & CeCe performed their classic song "Hold Up The Light" with one of CeCe's former background vocalists, Melinda Doolittle, on the 2007 American Idol finale. Winans co-hosted the 2008 Stellar Awards alongside Kirk Franklin and Byron Cage in January 2008.[2]
Solo career
CeCe began her solo career with the Gold certified album Alone in His Presence. It was released in 1995 and earned her a Grammy Award and 2 Dove Awards including the Female Vocalist of the Year, an award she earned again in 1997. Winans' next release, Everlasting Love was released in 1998. The song "On That Day" from the album was written and produced by R&B singer Lauryn Hill. Later that year, Winans released His Gift a holiday album.
In 1999, Winans started her own recording company, "PureSprings Gospel". Her first album on the label was Alabaster Box in 1999. Some production of the disc was done by Gospel singer and musician, Fred Hammond. It included a guest appearance by Take 6. In 2000 Cece released a concert VHS titled Live At The Lambs Theater in New York. The concert contained songs from her previous albums. Winans released her next album, the self titled CeCe Winans, in 2001. The single "Anybody Wanna Pray" included a guest appearance by GRITS. The second single, "Say A Prayer" crossed over into the CCM market.
Winans took a two year break from releasing albums and returned in 2003 with Throne Room. The first 1,000 copies were issued with a bonus CD that contained exclusive interviews with the artist, the making of the CD, some touring footage, and the music video "More Than What I Wanted" (which came from the 2001 release). In 2004, the 25 city tour Throne Room featured free admission and was followed with a DVD release of the concert recorded in Tennessee near CeCe's place of residence. Live In the Throne Room contained tracks from all of Winans' albums. Around September 2004, Winans experienced what she thought was a flu but turned out to be a serious stomach infection and was hospitalized immediately for surgery. Due to the extended recovery time, the second half of the Throne Room Tour was postponed to early 2005. [3]
Winans' 7th album Purified was released in 2005. Producers on board for the project were longtime BeBe & CeCe collaborator Keith Thomas, and CeCe's nephew Mario Winans. Winans' son Alvin III also co-writes several songs on the album and younger sisters Angie and Debbie Winans make an appearance as well.
CeCe's collection of Top Ten R&B radio hits include "Count on Me", her duet with Whitney Houston, from the Waiting to Exhale soundtrack. The single was certified Gold in the U.S. and reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100, #4 on the Adult Contemporary chart and #8 on the Billboard R&B Singles charts. She has also released her 8th Album Thy Kingdom Come on April 1st, to feature the single "Waging War."[5][1] The first single released from the album "Thy Will Be Done," was released digitally on iTunes on April 1, 2008
Upcoming releases:
It has been confirmed on her website that a reunion album with BeBe is scheduled for release in early 2009. [1] In early 2006, Winans stated that she would follow Purified with a holiday album.[4]
Books:
CeCe has authored three books: On A Positive Note, a collection of her memoirs released August 1, 2000; and Throne Room: Ushered Into the Presence of God, a devotional released January 1, 2004 and co-authored with Claire Cloninger. Always Sisters: Becoming the Princess You Were Created to Be, released on July 17, 2007 and co-written with Claudia Mair Burney.
In 2009, CeCe announced her support for a multicultural Christian education curriculum from Abingdon Press, entitled "On the Move: God's Grace from Place to Place."
Personal life:
CeCe now resides in Forest Hills, Tennessee [5] (a suburb of Nashville) with her husband Alvin Love and two children, Ashley and Alvin III. CeCe's children were featured in the BeBe & CeCe Winans music video "If Anything Ever Happened to You". Alvin III also appeared in the music video for "Well, Alright." They attend Born Again Church in Nashville, where CeCe is on the worship team and her kids are involved in the drama ministry. [5] CeCe is a good friend of Whitney Houston as well as godmother to her child. [6]
[edit]Discography
Albums with BeBe Winans
See BeBe & CeCe Winans Discography
Solo albums
Alone In His Presence
Released: October 10, 1995
Label: Sparrow Records
Chart position: Billboard 200 #124 [7]
Singles: "Every Time"
Everlasting Love
Released: March 17, 1998
Label: Pioneer Music Group/Atlantic Records
Chart position: Billboard R&B #35, Billboard 200 #107 [7]
Singles: "Well Alright" (Billboard R&B #47), [8] "What About You", "Slippin", "I Am"
His Gift
Released: September 15, 1998
Label: Pioneer Music Group/Atlantic Records
Alabaster Box
Released: October 19, 1999
Label: WellSpring Gospel
Chart position: Billboard R&B #55, Billboard 200 #129 [7]
Singles: "It Wasn't Easy", "King Of Kings (He's A Wonder)", "Alabastar Box"
CeCe Winans
Released: June 19, 2001
Label: WellSpring Gospel
Chart position: Billboard R&B #48, Billboard 200 #116 [7]
Singles: "More Than What I Wanted" (Billboard R&B #65), [8] "Say A Prayer", "For Love Alone"
Throne Room
Released: September 9, 2003
Label: PureSprings Gospel
Chart position: Billboard R&B #21, Billboard 200 #32 [7]
Singles: "Hallelujah Praise"
Purified
Released: September 13, 2005
Label: PureSprings Gospel/INO/Epic/Sony
Chart position: Billboard R&B #12, Billboard 200 #41 [7]
Singles: "All That I Need", "Pray", "Let Everything That Hath Breath" (Billboard Dance #8) [8], "He's Concerned"
Thy Kingdom Come
Released: April 1, 2008
Format: CD
Label: PureSprings Gospel
Singles: "Thy Will Be Done," "Waging War," "It Aint Over"
Other Albums
CeCe Winans Presents The Born Again Church Choir
Released: 2003
CeCe Winans Presents Pure Worship
Released: October 28, 2008
Label: EMI Gospel
CeCe Winans Presents Kingdom Kidz
Released: August 28, 2007
Guest appearances & Soundtracks
BeBe & CeCe Winans with Vince Gill and Wynonna Judd: "Right Now (We Need Another)" (Zomba Recording, 2008)
Patti LaBelle: "Walking Away (featuring CeCe Winans)" (Umbrella, 2006)
CeCe Winans: "He Set My Life To Music" She Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool (BNA, 2006)
BeBe Winans: "Tonight Tonight (featuring CeCe Winans)" (Motown, 2000)
Various Artists: "Humanity" The Prince of Egypt Soundtrack (Dreamworks, 1998)
CeCe Winans: "The River" The Prince Of Egypt: Inspirational (Dreamworks, 1998)
CeCe Winans: "All Is Well Tonight" God With Us: A Celebration Of Christmas Carols... (Sparrow, 1997)
CeCe Winans: "Take Me Back" Tribute: The Songs Of Andrae Crouch (Warner Alliance, 1996)
CeCe Winans & Whitney Houston: "Count on Me" (Arista, 1996)
CeCe Winans: "Rest In Me" Coram Deo II: People Of Praise (Sparrow, 1994)
[edit]Videography
Concerts
Live At The Lambs Theater in New York (Recorded At: Lambs Theater in New York City)
Released: 2000
Format: VHS
Live In The Throne Room (Recorded At: Cornerstone Church in Brentwood, TN)
Released: 2004
Format: DVD
Music Videos
"Count on Me" (Whitney Houston & CeCe Winans) (1996)
"Well Alright" (1998)
"More Than What I Wanted" (2001)
"Purified" (2006)[9]
Television Appearances
List includes acting appearances only, not interviews and/or performances
CeCe's Place (aired on the Odyssey Channel)
7th Heaven [10]
Touched By an Angel [11]
Living Single
Doc [10]
Martin
Other
Journeys In Black: CeCe Winans (BET documentary of Cece Winans' life)
Released: 2002
Format: DVD
[edit]Awards
CeCe has received 10 Grammy Awards, 21 Grammy Award nominations, 20 Dove Awards and numerous Stellar Awards.
Main article: CeCe Winans awards
[edit]See also
CeCe Winans albums
BeBe and CeCe Winans albums
The Winans Family
[edit]References
^ a b "CeCe Winans Official Homepage". PureSprings Gospel. Retrieved on 2007-05-23.
^ Stellar Awards Homepage
^ LaTonya Taylor (10-2005). "Purified by Fire". Christianity Today. Retrieved on 2007-08-25.
^ CeCe Winans Q&A
^ a b "At Home with CeCe Winans". Ebony Magazine. Retrieved on 2007-08-25.
^ Winans, CeCe (August 1, 2000). On A Positive Note.
^ a b c d e f "CeCe Winans Albums Chart History". Billboard.com.
^ a b c "CeCe Winans Singles Chart History". Billboard.com.
^ "The Official 22nd Annual Stellar Award Winners (2007)". Gospel Flava. January 13, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-01-15.
^ a b "CeCe Winans Official Biography". PureSprings Gospel. Retrieved on 2007-08-03.
^ At Home With CeCe Winans Part 2- Ebony Magazine
Other References
Winans, CeCe: On A Positive Note (August 1, 2000)
[edit]External links
www.cecewinans.com - Official CeCe Winans Internet site
Cece Winans - Interview (August 2008) on BlackGospel.com
Cece Winans Amazon Astore: Music, Books & Video
CeCe Winans at Allmusic
CeCe Winans discusses On the Move curriculum
[hide]
v • d • e
CeCe Winans
Discography
Solo • With BeBe Winans
North American Albums
Alone In His Presence • Everlasting Love • His Gift • Alabaster Box • CeCe Winans • Throne Room • Purified • Thy Kingdom Come
Related Articles
BeBe Winans • Winans family • PureSprings Gospel • BeBe & CeCe Winans • Melinda Doolittle • The PTL Club
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BeBe & CeCe (Main article: BeBe & CeCe Winans)
BeBe & CeCe (Main article: BeBe & CeCe Winans)
Around time that Winans had been accepted to college, the television show "The PTL Club" (now known as "Praise the Lord") took interest in her and her brother Benjamin (BeBe) as potential background vocalists for the show. They were accepted after going to North Carolina to audition. BeBe and CeCe moved to the PTL campus in North Carolina, and were on the show for about five years. It was during this time that CeCe met her husband, Alvin Love, Jr. who was also from Detroit. During their time on The PTL Club, BeBe & CeCe recorded Lord Lift Us Up on PTL's label following popular demand on the show. The success yielded another effort, "Feels Like Heaven (With You)". Eventually the success warranted another effort: a full length album.
BeBe and CeCe left PTL to pursue their singing career and recorded four more albums including Heaven, Different Lifestyles, First Christmas, and Relationships. In 1995, BeBe and CeCe split up to pursue solo careers and other interests. However CeCe Winans' official website indicates that the two will release a reunion album in 2008.[1] BeBe & CeCe performed their classic song "Hold Up The Light" with one of CeCe's former background vocalists, Melinda Doolittle, on the 2007 American Idol finale. Winans co-hosted the 2008 Stellar Awards alongside Kirk Franklin and Byron Cage in January 2008.[2]
Solo career
CeCe began her solo career with the Gold certified album Alone in His Presence. It was released in 1995 and earned her a Grammy Award and 2 Dove Awards including the Female Vocalist of the Year, an award she earned again in 1997. Winans' next release, Everlasting Love was released in 1998. The song "On That Day" from the album was written and produced by R&B singer Lauryn Hill. Later that year, Winans released His Gift a holiday album.
In 1999, Winans started her own recording company, "PureSprings Gospel". Her first album on the label was Alabaster Box in 1999. Some production of the disc was done by Gospel singer and musician, Fred Hammond. It included a guest appearance by Take 6. In 2000 Cece released a concert VHS titled Live At The Lambs Theater in New York. The concert contained songs from her previous albums. Winans released her next album, the self titled CeCe Winans, in 2001. The single "Anybody Wanna Pray" included a guest appearance by GRITS. The second single, "Say A Prayer" crossed over into the CCM market.
Winans took a two year break from releasing albums and returned in 2003 with Throne Room. The first 1,000 copies were issued with a bonus CD that contained exclusive interviews with the artist, the making of the CD, some touring footage, and the music video "More Than What I Wanted" (which came from the 2001 release). In 2004, the 25 city tour Throne Room featured free admission and was followed with a DVD release of the concert recorded in Tennessee near CeCe's place of residence. Live In the Throne Room contained tracks from all of Winans' albums. Around September 2004, Winans experienced what she thought was a flu but turned out to be a serious stomach infection and was hospitalized immediately for surgery. Due to the extended recovery time, the second half of the Throne Room Tour was postponed to early 2005. [3]
Winans' 7th album Purified was released in 2005. Producers on board for the project were longtime BeBe & CeCe collaborator Keith Thomas, and CeCe's nephew Mario Winans. Winans' son Alvin III also co-writes several songs on the album and younger sisters Angie and Debbie Winans make an appearance as well.
CeCe's collection of Top Ten R&B radio hits include "Count on Me", her duet with Whitney Houston, from the Waiting to Exhale soundtrack. The single was certified Gold in the U.S. and reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100, #4 on the Adult Contemporary chart and #8 on the Billboard R&B Singles charts. She has also released her 8th Album Thy Kingdom Come on April 1st, to feature the single "Waging War."[5][1] The first single released from the album "Thy Will Be Done," was released digitally on iTunes on April 1, 2008
Upcoming releases:
It has been confirmed on her website that a reunion album with BeBe is scheduled for release in early 2009. [1] In early 2006, Winans stated that she would follow Purified with a holiday album.[4]
Books:
CeCe has authored three books: On A Positive Note, a collection of her memoirs released August 1, 2000; and Throne Room: Ushered Into the Presence of God, a devotional released January 1, 2004 and co-authored with Claire Cloninger. Always Sisters: Becoming the Princess You Were Created to Be, released on July 17, 2007 and co-written with Claudia Mair Burney.
In 2009, CeCe announced her support for a multicultural Christian education curriculum from Abingdon Press, entitled "On the Move: God's Grace from Place to Place."
Personal life:
CeCe now resides in Forest Hills, Tennessee [5] (a suburb of Nashville) with her husband Alvin Love and two children, Ashley and Alvin III. CeCe's children were featured in the BeBe & CeCe Winans music video "If Anything Ever Happened to You". Alvin III also appeared in the music video for "Well, Alright." They attend Born Again Church in Nashville, where CeCe is on the worship team and her kids are involved in the drama ministry. [5] CeCe is a good friend of Whitney Houston as well as godmother to her child. [6]
[edit]Discography
Albums with BeBe Winans
See BeBe & CeCe Winans Discography
Solo albums
Alone In His Presence
Released: October 10, 1995
Label: Sparrow Records
Chart position: Billboard 200 #124 [7]
Singles: "Every Time"
Everlasting Love
Released: March 17, 1998
Label: Pioneer Music Group/Atlantic Records
Chart position: Billboard R&B #35, Billboard 200 #107 [7]
Singles: "Well Alright" (Billboard R&B #47), [8] "What About You", "Slippin", "I Am"
His Gift
Released: September 15, 1998
Label: Pioneer Music Group/Atlantic Records
Alabaster Box
Released: October 19, 1999
Label: WellSpring Gospel
Chart position: Billboard R&B #55, Billboard 200 #129 [7]
Singles: "It Wasn't Easy", "King Of Kings (He's A Wonder)", "Alabastar Box"
CeCe Winans
Released: June 19, 2001
Label: WellSpring Gospel
Chart position: Billboard R&B #48, Billboard 200 #116 [7]
Singles: "More Than What I Wanted" (Billboard R&B #65), [8] "Say A Prayer", "For Love Alone"
Throne Room
Released: September 9, 2003
Label: PureSprings Gospel
Chart position: Billboard R&B #21, Billboard 200 #32 [7]
Singles: "Hallelujah Praise"
Purified
Released: September 13, 2005
Label: PureSprings Gospel/INO/Epic/Sony
Chart position: Billboard R&B #12, Billboard 200 #41 [7]
Singles: "All That I Need", "Pray", "Let Everything That Hath Breath" (Billboard Dance #8) [8], "He's Concerned"
Thy Kingdom Come
Released: April 1, 2008
Format: CD
Label: PureSprings Gospel
Singles: "Thy Will Be Done," "Waging War," "It Aint Over"
Other Albums
CeCe Winans Presents The Born Again Church Choir
Released: 2003
CeCe Winans Presents Pure Worship
Released: October 28, 2008
Label: EMI Gospel
CeCe Winans Presents Kingdom Kidz
Released: August 28, 2007
Guest appearances & Soundtracks
BeBe & CeCe Winans with Vince Gill and Wynonna Judd: "Right Now (We Need Another)" (Zomba Recording, 2008)
Patti LaBelle: "Walking Away (featuring CeCe Winans)" (Umbrella, 2006)
CeCe Winans: "He Set My Life To Music" She Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool (BNA, 2006)
BeBe Winans: "Tonight Tonight (featuring CeCe Winans)" (Motown, 2000)
Various Artists: "Humanity" The Prince of Egypt Soundtrack (Dreamworks, 1998)
CeCe Winans: "The River" The Prince Of Egypt: Inspirational (Dreamworks, 1998)
CeCe Winans: "All Is Well Tonight" God With Us: A Celebration Of Christmas Carols... (Sparrow, 1997)
CeCe Winans: "Take Me Back" Tribute: The Songs Of Andrae Crouch (Warner Alliance, 1996)
CeCe Winans & Whitney Houston: "Count on Me" (Arista, 1996)
CeCe Winans: "Rest In Me" Coram Deo II: People Of Praise (Sparrow, 1994)
[edit]Videography
Concerts
Live At The Lambs Theater in New York (Recorded At: Lambs Theater in New York City)
Released: 2000
Format: VHS
Live In The Throne Room (Recorded At: Cornerstone Church in Brentwood, TN)
Released: 2004
Format: DVD
Music Videos
"Count on Me" (Whitney Houston & CeCe Winans) (1996)
"Well Alright" (1998)
"More Than What I Wanted" (2001)
"Purified" (2006)[9]
Television Appearances
List includes acting appearances only, not interviews and/or performances
CeCe's Place (aired on the Odyssey Channel)
7th Heaven [10]
Touched By an Angel [11]
Living Single
Doc [10]
Martin
Other
Journeys In Black: CeCe Winans (BET documentary of Cece Winans' life)
Released: 2002
Format: DVD
[edit]Awards
CeCe has received 10 Grammy Awards, 21 Grammy Award nominations, 20 Dove Awards and numerous Stellar Awards.
Main article: CeCe Winans awards
[edit]See also
CeCe Winans albums
BeBe and CeCe Winans albums
The Winans Family
[edit]References
^ a b "CeCe Winans Official Homepage". PureSprings Gospel. Retrieved on 2007-05-23.
^ Stellar Awards Homepage
^ LaTonya Taylor (10-2005). "Purified by Fire". Christianity Today. Retrieved on 2007-08-25.
^ CeCe Winans Q&A
^ a b "At Home with CeCe Winans". Ebony Magazine. Retrieved on 2007-08-25.
^ Winans, CeCe (August 1, 2000). On A Positive Note.
^ a b c d e f "CeCe Winans Albums Chart History". Billboard.com.
^ a b c "CeCe Winans Singles Chart History". Billboard.com.
^ "The Official 22nd Annual Stellar Award Winners (2007)". Gospel Flava. January 13, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-01-15.
^ a b "CeCe Winans Official Biography". PureSprings Gospel. Retrieved on 2007-08-03.
^ At Home With CeCe Winans Part 2- Ebony Magazine
Other References
Winans, CeCe: On A Positive Note (August 1, 2000)
[edit]External links
www.cecewinans.com - Official CeCe Winans Internet site
Cece Winans - Interview (August 2008) on BlackGospel.com
Cece Winans Amazon Astore: Music, Books & Video
CeCe Winans at Allmusic
CeCe Winans discusses On the Move curriculum
[hide]
v • d • e
CeCe Winans
Discography
Solo • With BeBe Winans
North American Albums
Alone In His Presence • Everlasting Love • His Gift • Alabaster Box • CeCe Winans • Throne Room • Purified • Thy Kingdom Come
Related Articles
BeBe Winans • Winans family • PureSprings Gospel • BeBe & CeCe Winans • Melinda Doolittle • The PTL Club
Categories: 1964 births | American gospel singers | Urban contemporary gospel musicians | Gospel artists from Detroit | Grammy Award winners | Living people | Musical groups from Michigan | Atlantic Records artists
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The Garden
Bebe And Cece Winans Lyrics
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I try to reach out for you but I fall
Sometimes you seem so close and yet so far
Oh I need another chance
I need to know your mercy
Just give me the strength to change within
I know that I am not all that I can be
My weakness seems to get the best of me
But as long as you are here
I know that I will make it
Every step along the way
Please hear my prayer
[Chorus]
A heart like yours, is my desire
A heart like yours, is what I am searching for
Full of compassion, nothing wrong within
Please hear me Lord, give me a heart like yours
So much grace, so much kindness
So much faith, for ever true
Strong as the wind, soft as the shadows
If just once, I could be like you
[Chorus]
Please hear me Lord, give me a heart like yours
Please hear me Lord, give me a heart like yours
Sometimes you seem so close and yet so far
Oh I need another chance
I need to know your mercy
Just give me the strength to change within
I know that I am not all that I can be
My weakness seems to get the best of me
But as long as you are here
Every step along the way
Please hear my prayer
[Chorus]
A heart like yours, is my desire
A heart like yours, is what I am searching for
Full of compassion, nothing wrong within
Please hear me Lord, give me a heart like yours
So much grace, so much kindness
So much faith, for ever true
Strong as the wind, soft as the shadows
If just once, I could be like you
[Chorus]
Please hear me Lord, give me a heart like yours
Please hear me Lord, give me a heart like yours
The lyrics to Bebe and Cece Winans's song The Garden are a plea to God for strength and guidance to become a better person. The singer acknowledges their weaknesses and fallibility, but expresses a desire to change and to embody the same kind of love and compassion as God. The repeated phrase "give me a heart like yours" encapsulates this desire for transformation, and the chorus drives home the message of longing for a heart that is pure and full of grace.
The imagery of the garden in the title and throughout the song further reinforces the idea of growth and transformation. The singer acknowledges that they are not all that they can be, but hopes that with God's help, they can blossom into something greater. The garden also represents a place of abundance and beauty, and the singer seeks to have a heart that is just as rich and vibrant.
Overall, The Garden is a powerful and emotional reflection on the struggles of being human and the desire to become more than we are. It is a universal message that speaks to anyone who has ever felt like they needed help to overcome their flaws and become a better person.
Line by Line Meaning
I try to reach out for you but I fall
I attempt to connect with you, but I stumble and fail.
Sometimes you seem so close and yet so far
At times, you appear near, but in reality, you are distant and unreachable.
Oh I need another chance
I require a fresh opportunity to make things right.
I need to know your mercy
I desire to experience your compassion and forgiveness.
Just give me the strength to change within
Grant me the power to transform myself from the inside out.
I know that I am not all that I can be
I acknowledge that I am capable of more than what I currently am.
My weakness seems to get the best of me
My flaws and shortcomings tend to overwhelm and dominate me.
But as long as you are here
As long as you are present and by my side,
I know that I will make it
I am confident that I will overcome and succeed.
Every step along the way
Throughout the entire journey.
Please hear my prayer
Please listen and respond to my entreaty.
A heart like yours, is my desire
My aspiration is to have a heart like yours.
A heart like yours, is what I am searching for
I am actively seeking to obtain a heart similar to yours.
Full of compassion, nothing wrong within
Replete with empathy, devoid of blemishes or deficiencies.
Please hear me Lord, give me a heart like yours
My plea to you, O Lord, is to grant me a heart comparable to yours.
So much grace, so much kindness
You possess a tremendous amount of elegance and benevolence.
So much faith, for ever true
You have boundless faith that endures eternally.
Strong as the wind, soft as the shadows
You are forceful and resolute yet gentle and unobtrusive.
If just once, I could be like you
If only for a single moment, I could emulate your character.
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Written by: ADRIAN GURVITZ, CECE WINANS, WENDY WALDMAN
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Oh how I love you
So much it hurts too
Sit by and watch you, go through all the things that you do
Because of restriction
I need your permission
So that I can flow freely
And you can live life abundantly.
Let me take you back to the garden
Where we first met
Where we walked and talked
Everyday until the sun set
When you fall don't run and hide just come and find me
I'll be right there to restore your destiny.
Oh I long for
That you opened the door
And there's nothing between us
I have all your heart and your trust
I made provision
To redeem your position
And I know this time you'll spend
I am reaching out take my hand
Here's where we're going
Let me take you back to the garden
Where we first met
Where we walked and talked
Everyday until the sun set
When you fall don't run and hide just come and find me
I'll be right there to restore your destiny.
Let me take you back to the garden
Where we first met
Where we walked and talked
Everyday until the sun set
When you fall don't run and hide just come and find me
I'll be right there to restore your destiny.
Let me take you there
To the place of hope again
It's a wonderland
Where I'm your joy and there's no fear
Will you follow me
I will lead you to my promises
That I'll always be
You can count on me
Remember, remember
I'll never leave
Let me take you back to the garden
Where we first met
Where we walked and talked
Everyday until the sun set
When you fall don't run and hide just come and find me
I'll be right there to restore your destiny.
Let me take you back
Back
Where we first met
To do and the sky with no sunset
Da da da da come and fine me
L. ANGEL LOVE
THIS CD I USE TO OWN AND
I MUST SAY THIS SONG AND
CD IS ONE EXTRAORDINARY
MASTERPIECE WORK OF ART
SO WELL ORCHESTRATED
THANK YOU BOTH FOR SHARING
YOUR EXTRAORDINARY TALENT AND MEMORIES IT'S TRULY A
BLESSING FROM OUR CREATOR
L ANGEL LOVE
THIS AMAZING & BEAUTIFUL DUET IS ABOUT
THE 1st. PERFECT GARDEN
THAT OUR CREATOR PLACED HIS 1st. 2 PERFECT HUMANS TO
RESIDE TO BECOME MANY
BUT UNFORTUNATELY THEY WERE MISLED ASTRAY, BUT
NEVERTHELESS BB & CC MADE
THIS ONE THEIR
EXTRAORDINARY MASTERPIECE WORK OF ART.
Channa H
Oh how I love you
So much it hurts too
Sit by and watch you, go through all the things that you do
Because of restriction
I need your permission
So that I can flow freely
And you can live life abundantly.
Let me take you back to the garden
Where we first met
Where we walked and talked
Everyday until the sun set
When you fall don't run and hide just come and find me
I'll be right there to restore your destiny.
Oh I long for
That you opened the door
And there's nothing between us
I have all your heart and your trust
I made provision
To redeem your position
And I know this time you'll spend
I am reaching out take my hand
Here's where we're going
Let me take you back to the garden
Where we first met
Where we walked and talked
Everyday until the sun set
When you fall don't run and hide just come and find me
I'll be right there to restore your destiny.
Let me take you back to the garden
Where we first met
Where we walked and talked
Everyday until the sun set
When you fall don't run and hide just come and find me
I'll be right there to restore your destiny.
Let me take you there
To the place of hope again
It's a wonderland
Where I'm your joy and there's no fear
Will you follow me
I will lead you to my promises
That I'll always be
You can count on me
Remember, remember
I'll never leave
Let me take you back to the garden
Where we first met
Where we walked and talked
Everyday until the sun set
When you fall don't run and hide just come and find me
I'll be right there to restore your destiny.
Let me take you back
Back
Where we first met
To do and the sky with no sunset
Da da da da come and fine me
Linda Brown
They are a beautiful brother and sister duet! The greatest to me as well!
Stu West
Goosebumps
L. ANGEL LOVE
THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL SONG AND
AMAZING MASTERPIECE OF
GOD'S HEAVENLY CREATION
(HD) HIGH DEFINITION AND
PHOTOGRAPHY
Ruth Okeanya
I love this song it has a deep meaning and the song is beautiful
Domonique Ayers
THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL CD FROM
THE BEGINNING TO THE END.
Judy Miele
this is the most soothing song. I am go grateful to be a child of God and know that he is always in control of all
of our lives. Cece sings like an angel. Thank you Jesus for all the blessings I enjoy every day.
Judy Miele, Nashua, NH
Stuart West
you are not a child of an imaginary being, you are a child of your mother and father
Angie Reynolds
❤
Kayla Hector
I was about 10 years old when this album came out and I bought it with my allowance at Walmart. This was the song I would have on repeat all night long. At the time me being young I would imagine me finding the love of my life and us just being happy together in “The garden”. Now I understand the true beauty of these words and it makes me a little emotional thinking about how much God loves us and provides for us so much so that he sent his only begotten son to die for our sins.