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With a husband, twin daughters, a baby due at Christmas, and a thriving career as one of Christian music's most popular artists, you'd think Natalie Grant was due for a vacation. Instead, the four-time GMA Vocalist of the Year is as busy as ever, touring with Women of Faith through the fall, planning a tour for the spring, and promoting her latest release Love Revolution, which releases today. If that weren't enough, she keeps busy with the Home Foundation, which she founded in 2005 to raise funds to fight human trafficking. We talked with Grant about her life as an artist, mom, and activist.

What do your girls [3-year-old twins Grace and Isabella] think about having a little brother or sister coming along?

They are so excited! It's so cute because they'll just walk up and kiss my belly and say, "I love you so much." But I don't know that they're fully getting it because one of them asked the other day, "Where's the baby's mommy and daddy?" [Laughs]

Natalie Grant

I know it's hard to imagine adding another child to the mix.

Yeah, and every time I think about it, I get exceptionally overwhelmed! When we [Grant and husband Bernie Helms] found out I was having twins, it was overwhelming, but I thought, "I have two hands; there will be a hand for each baby." One to two is an okay ratio, but one to three—we are totally outnumbered! My children tour with me, so it's going to be interesting, but we'll figure it out as we go along. Touring next spring will be the test of how to do this with three kids. I know having another child will affect things, but I know too that I'm still called to do what I do. Somehow, God just gives us the grace to do everything he's called us to do.

How do you balance it all?

Most days, I don't! [Laughs] Some days, I'm terrible at it! But I get a chance the next day to do it all over again. Usually, something will suffer, and that's the part where discipline comes in because, often, it's our time and relationship with the Lord that can suffer because we busy ourselves with so many other things. I always realize that when I take the time for my first love, somehow the other things don't become easy, but they become lighter.

On Love Revolution, a couple of songs are expressing an urgency for Christians to do something in the world. In "Daring to Be," you sing, "I'm waving goodbye to my pretty little life." Where is that coming from?

Most of it is a call of action to myself. It's so easy to become entrenched in our everyday lives and with our children and their activities, and you wake up one day and say, "Yes, I've invested my time in my kids." But God also has a plan for each of us. As I've travelled, I've been to some of the most beautiful church buildings—massive buildings, massive stages, massive productions, great media. But it's like we've spent so many of the last few decades building our church buildings, building our programs, building our numbers, that it's time to stop "doing" church and start "being" the church. Helping those in need is really what the church does best. The church doesn't belong in politics. The church belongs in helping the poor and the widow, in rebuilding people's lives. Over the last several years, I've realized that what I do is more than just music for me. It's really more about a movement, a call to action—music that would compel. That was my prayer in writing and recording this CD.

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