As a lifelong fan, there’s something powerful about sitting across from Point of Grace in this season of their lives. Not because they’re trying to prove anything. Not because they’re chasing what once was. But because, after decades of music, ministry, motherhood, and life, they’re finally saying exactly what they were meant to say all along. And they’re doing it together.
After 14 years they have returned with a new album of original songs, Lady Wisdom, “It’s kind of special for us” says Shelley Breen. “it’s been a long time.” Denise Jones gently corrects the narrative. “But I think that’s the funny thing. People go, ‘Oh, y’all took a break.’ We never really took a break… we just didn’t feel like it was the right time to write some new songs.”
The story of Lady Wisdom doesn’t begin in a studio. It begins in a living room, Bibles open, hearts wide. Leigh Cappillino recalls the moment that set everything in motion:
“I was reading in Proverbs chapter eight and Lady Wisdom being introduced… it grabbed ahold of my face when I saw Lady Wisdom… we started there.”
They reconnected with Grammy Award–winning songwriter Natalie Hemby, whose credits include “Rainbow” for Kacey Musgraves and “I’ll Never Love Again” from A Star Is Born, performed by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. Long before those hits, though, she was part of the Point of Grace story in a very different way as their stylist.
“We sat in Natalie’s living room. We pulled out our Bibles… ‘What phrase grabs ahold of you?’… It was just all this stuff that was coming out so organically.”
Denise describes the process like something they’d never quite experienced before:
“We all went down [to Hemby’s songwriting retreat] for about five days… and the Lord just really met us there and just began to unfold these songs… they do feel very personal.”
Shelley Breen says they’ve always carried one question into every song:
“Are you able to look somebody in the eye… is that going to minister to them? Is that going to help them?” Because for Point of Grace, ministry isn’t abstract. “The truth that’s found in the word is really for everybody.”
What is apparent in this new record for all three women has been a renewed love for Scripture.
Denise shares “I was 54 and I had never read the Bible all the way through… I said, ‘Lord, this is my desire… I can’t do it on my own. I just need your help.’”
Thanks to Tara Leigh Cobble’s Bible Recap her mission was accomplished. “I finished on my 55th birthday.”
Success doesn’t look the same anymore. They know that. They’ve lived both versions.
“What success means to us is… a heart of gratitude,” Leigh says. “We get to talk about a message that matters… it’s too good to be true.”
Shelley is even more honest about the modern reality:
“You just kind of hope that a song… can break through the noise and point people in a good direction.”
And Denise offers the perspective only time can give:
“We have so much more to say now.’”
Point of Grace isn’t near their swan song. Leigh adds “As long as there’s breath in our lungs, there’s a song in our heart. And if that song hasn’t been written, may He help us write it.”
That’s Lady Wisdom. Just three women, still listening. Still learning. Still writing.
And maybe, for the first time, saying exactly what they were meant to say.