Bio.
Julie de Azevedo Hanks
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- Genres
Christian & Gospel
Description.
Like most women, Julie de Azevedo Hanks wears many hats, loves eating chocolate, taking long naps, and she tolerates exercise.
She is an award-winning performing songwriter, Julie’s most recent CD “Masterpiece: The Best of Julie de Azevedo” is a collection of her best-loved songs. Her most valuable experience has been “in the trenches” of family life for nearly 24 years as wife and mother of 4 children ranging from kindergartner to college student.
As a licensed therapist Julie has been counseling women, couples, and families for nearly 2 decades. In addition to providing therapy and serving as Executive Director of Utah’s Wasatch Family Therapy, Hanks is a sought after media contributor appearing regularly on KSL TV’s Studio 5, and has appeared on TLC, Discovery Health, and Fox News Channel. Her down-to-earth advice has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, Women’s Day, Women’s Health, Parenting, and others. Julie first book written for women of faith about the importance preventing emotional burnout through emotional self-care is scheduled to publish in Aug. 2013.
She hosts a weekly radio show “The Julie Hanks Show” on BYU Radio where she talks with callers and offers help with their life challenges.
Recent music.
- 1Masterpiece - God's Signature
- 2Masterpiece - I Can't Count The Stars
- 3Masterpiece - Window To His Love
- 4Masterpiece - Simple Things
- 5Masterpiece - Make Enough Of Me
Recent video.
Over the past 25 years, Julie de Azevedo has written, produced, and performed some of the most popular songs in the LDS music industry. Masterpiece: The Best of Julie de Azevedo is a must-have collection highlighting the best of the best.
Click here to purchase album
Track List:
- God’s Signature
- Angels
- Feel the Fire
- Dive Deep
- What If
- Simple Things
- Pray for Rain
- Make Enough of Me
- Hard Things
- Wings
- Ships in the Night
- I Can’t Count the Stars
- Mercy’s Arms
- Masterpiece
- Something Holy
- Offering
- Window to His Love
Lyrics:
Offering
From the album Home
Words: Julie de Azevedo
Music: Brett Raymond
© 2005 Julie de Azevedo (BMI) / Brett Raymond Music (ASCAP)
In my hand I hold a penny
Tarnished and so small
I know it’s a meager offering
But it is my all
In return You build me mansions
Palaces and thrones
I’m offering a piece of rusty copper
You’re offering streets of gold
In my hand a bead of water
Salty frail teardrop
I know it’s a meager offering
But it’s all I’ve got
In return You send me oceans
Downpour feeds the flood
I’m offering a tiny fallen droplet
You’re drenching me with love
In my hand a blackened stone
Cold hard heap of coal
I know it’s a meager offering
But it is my soul
In return You drape me in diamonds
Gems so rare and round
I’m offering a roughened rock unpolished
You’re fitting me a crown
In my hand I hold a candle
Tiny fragile spark
I know it’s a meager offering
But it is my heart
In return Your summer sunshine
Winter is undone
I’m offering a flicker in the darkness
You’re offering the sun
I’m offering a flicker in the darkness
You’re offering the sun
You’re offering the Son
Window to His Love
From the album State of the Heart
Words and music: Julie de Azevedo
© 1992 Mohrgüd Music (BMI)
I want to be a window to His love
So when you look at me you will see Him
I want to be so pure and clear
That you won’t even know I’m here
’Cause His love will shine brightly through me
I want to be a doorway to the truth
So when you walk beyond you will find Him
I want to stand so straight and tall
That you won’t notice me at all
But through my open door He will be seen
Chorus
A window to His love
A doorway to the truth
A bearer of the message
He’d have me bring to you
And with each passing day
I want to fade away
’Til only He can be seen
And I become a window to His love
I want to be a window to His love
So you can look through me and you’ll see Him
And someday shining through the glass
You’ll see His loving countenance
’Cause I will have become like He is
Chorus
A doorway to the truth
A bearer of the message
He’d have me bring to you
And with each passing year
I want to disappear
’Til He’s become everything
And I’ve become a window to His love
