Laura Story 是2012 Grammy Award 现代基督教歌曲的获奖者。
她从小在教会长大，上教会是她的习惯和传统。刚上大学的时候，在学生里面她拥有一切耍酷的条件：因为乐器玩得好可以享受奖学金；有一个高大帅气的运动员男友；父母爱她送了她一辆手动的跑车。这一切让她引以为傲，定义自己是典型酷妹。
然而有一天，因为一个意外一切都改变了，在和男友玩扔球游戏时，一不小心，男友扔过来的球没接好，反而使她手臂骨折。因为骨折，不能再开心爱的跑车；因为迁怒男友，一气之下把他甩了；还是因为骨折，不能再玩乐器，导致了下学期的奖学金泡汤。
这件事情导致了她转眼变得一点不酷，她痛苦沮丧，为了排解忧愁，在手臂相对好点之后，她报名参加了一个短宣团队，去了一个完全语言不通的国家-- 蒙古。在那里，她真实地遇见了耶稣。
他们的团队任务是每天在蒙古各地放映《耶稣传》，于是在蒙古的一个月里，她每天都看这部电影，圣经里的耶稣活画在她眼前，虽然外在耍酷的条件都完全失去，因着真实地遇见了救主，她的生命不再一样。当她回到美国的时候，她因为遇见耶稣而喜乐，生命交托为祂而活。
慢慢地神带领她走向音乐事奉的道路，2004年她写的歌开始获奖，嫁给了一个英俊的运动员丈夫，2006年丈夫查出脑瘤，在经历极度的痛苦，于2008年她写出了获奖歌曲《Blessings》。她用生命体验圣经里雅各书写的1：2 “我的弟兄们，你们落在百般试炼中，都要以为大喜乐。”。她说" But there’s a decision that I find God is asking us to make: whether we’re going to judge God based on our circumstances, or whether we are going to choose to interpret our circumstances based on what we hold to be true about God.”
神在她的绝望时候赐她安慰，她怀孕生子了，而今年她的第二胎将是双胞胎。虽然生命的旅程充满意外和挑战，然而在基督里，她深感自己是被祝福的，生命因为耶稣而酷。
Who but Jesus ?
Who but Jesus, loves the sinner?
Who but Jesus, calls him friend?
Reaches out to touch the leper,
Bids the weary come to Him?
Who but Jesus, loves the lowly,
Those the world has cast outside?
And with such scandalous compassion
Makes a wretch his chosen bride?
Who but Jesus, dwells among us,
Called this broken world his home?
Took on flesh and pain and sorrow
Reaping what He did not sow?
With the lost He shared salvation,
With the thief He shared a cross,
All that we might share His riches,
Who but Christ would give it all?
Who but Jesus?
Who but Jesus?
Who but Jesus, loves the sinner
Enough to give His life?
Love too pure for men to merit,
Praise too glorious to deny.
Praise Him now with my joy in living,
As in death my comfort rests.
Who but Jesus, loves this sinner
He alone is my righteousness.
Who but Jesus?
Who but Jesus?
Who but Jesus?
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