2012 Dove Awards: Laura Story, “Blessings” from brain tumor

This video above shows you the real Laura Story, a down-to-earth person.

Laura Story came home the big win­ner by gar­ner­ing five Dove Awards, includ­ing song of the year for “Bless­ings,” last week in Atlanta, but don’t expect the South Car­olina native to become big headed. The self-described “Birken­stock and gra­nola” singer remains humble.

Story wrote “Bless­ings” after her hus­band Mar­tin was diag­nosed with a brain tumor and then con­tracted menin­gi­tis dur­ing the surgery to remove the tumor.

“I would have rather writ­ten a song about win­ning the lot­tery, but you have to write about the hard times and how God showed up,” said Story, who will be in Den­ver on Dec. 5 at the Den­ver Coliseum.

Story also won a Grammy Award for “Bless­ings” in the Best Con­tem­po­rary Chris­t­ian Song category.

“You know the Gram­mys were great, but it’s some­thing about being here (at the Dove Awards) and with what God has done,” Story said. “As far as the artists go, we don’t care who goes home with the hard­ware, it’s about glo­ri­fy­ing God.”

Story was asked about being on tour with Manidsa, who is more “bling and glit­ter” than the South­ern singer.

“You know heaven is going to be like this, so get over it or you are going to be left out,” Story said. “Man­disa is great. She’s taught me how to tweet and Face­book. It’s like Birken­stock meets bling or gra­nola and glit­ter. It’s great.”

When asked about what’s next, Story, who is preg­nant and due in Sep­tem­ber with a baby girl, said while rais­ing the Dove Award, “I’ve done this pretty well, now I just want to be a good mom.”