♪ God loves a lullaby ♪

♪ In a mother's tearsin the dead of night ♪

♪ Better than a Hallelujah sometimes ♪

- It's an unmistakable voice.

Amy Grant's music career began

when she was still in high school.

More than 40 years later,

she's still touring to sold out crowds.

39 cities

await Amy Grant's visit.

How are you feeling?

- Is it 39?

I haven't counted yet.

Hey, way to go.

♪ God just hears a melody ♪

I'm so glad I get to work.

♪ The mess we are ♪

You know, everybody kind of flirts with,

"Some people get to stay home!"

But then all of a sudden westayed home for over a year.

I'm so grateful to get to pack a bag.

- [Efrem] The singer and songwriter

has recorded more than 20 albums

and sold more than 30 million copies.

One of the biggest is this one,recorded some 30 years ago.

♪ Baby, baby ♪

♪ The stars are shining for you ♪

♪ And just like me, I'msure that they adore you ♪

- Can you believe that it's been 30 years

since "Heart in Motion?"

- Yeah, that's lifetimes ago.

(Efrem laughing)

Here's the greatest thing to me

when I was writing thesongs for that record,

I was pregnant with my daughter, Millie,

my first baby girl.

And then the album came out

and she was tiny.

By the time I got to perform "Baby, Baby,"

which was written abouther, on the Grammys,

she'd walked out to me

and those are memories thatI will cherish forever.

4th of July, she announced to our family

she's pregnant with her first baby.

- Oh, wow!

(Efrem laughing)

"Baby Baby" is for the baby

that's coming now.- I know.

♪ Always and forever ♪

- Were you aware during the process

that this was such agame-changing project for you?

- No.- No.

- What I was most aware of was just,

there was such great creative energy.

(pop music)

Life was full ofpossibility at that point.

Already everything thathad happened to me in music

was way far beyond what I had dreamed.

It was.

And so

we just were joyful and

excited to be getting

to do something that was sortof beyond our wildest dreams.

♪ I like to sing with the band ♪

- It sort of helps solidifyyour move into mainstream

and just gave you a much wider audience.

Was that a consciousmove to make that to do

or were you just wanting to make music?

- Well, we were just making music.

I wanted to make notjust faith-based music.

Music can captureeverything, a broken heart,

trying to figure yourway through the world.

You can sing an old hymnthat you grew up singing

next to your great-grandmother and go,

oh, that's where that came from.

♪ You get brave when I get shy ♪

♪ Just another ♪

The making of that record

and the touring of that record was all,

I had two young childrenon the road with me.

- Wow.

- My nanny, I would walk off a stage,

just sung to 15,000 people and she'd go,

I saved this diaper for you.

(Efrem laughing)

Okay, yes, so whatever pre-Madonna thing

was happening in other worldswas not happening in my world.

- [Efrem] At that age,kids keep you in check.

- Oh my gosh.

I so loved, I mean, I had dreamed of that

and I was getting to do music and that,

and I just think it mademe see the world through

a really positive lens,

a joyful, kind lens.

And I look back at that record

and I thought that it reallyreflects that time in life,

and kind of invited everybodyelse not to be oblivious.

I mean, there's some heavy songs on there.

- [Efrem] Absolutely.

- But just to, I dunno,

it's like let's be gentle with each other.

♪ Living through the fireand holding on we find ♪

- I have to ask, does "Heart in Motion"

have a different meaning nowin light of the last year,

because you shared thatyou had open heart surgery.

I mean, do you sing the song differently?

- I mean, I think I lookat everything differently.

It was such a fluke thatthey found out I was born

with a birth defect.

I just remember the doctor saying,

we need to go on andget this taken care of

before you turn 60.

And I'm 60 now.

And I saw an interview lateron that he had written,

she probably would've died by 62.

- Oh my gosh.

- I mean, I am glad to be alive,

and I think anybody that isgoing into something where

your wellbeing is completelyin somebody else's hands

and my mine literally.

I was on a bypass machine

and somebody like was holdingmy heart in their hand.

And you do have to takesome deep breaths and go,

will I wake up

and

what really matters ofthe things I have done

and what matters aboutwhat comes after this?

And it's not the big things.

It's not, an award on a shelfdoesn't make any difference

to the quality of yourlife or somebody else's.

And to me, I just feel a hyper awareness

of the gift of each other,the gift of every day.

♪ Melt our defenses ♪

- [Efrem] Efrem Graham, CBNNews, Nashville, Tennessee.

♪ Give us strength to try once more ♪

♪ Baby, that's what love is for ♪

♪ That's what love is for ♪