Heartbroken - Steven Curtis Chapman & Family On Larry King Live Category: Music Views: 223
Tonight, I watched the Larry King Live interview with Steven Curtis Chapman, his wife Mary Beth and his family in one of the most emotional interviews I've seen in quite a long time.
By now, we're familiar with the news of the tragic accident involving their daughter Maria Sue. This week, Steven and his family have opened up their home, memories and some pretty raw emotion on both Larry King Live and Good Morning America.
When I heard the news initially, my wife was out with our 21 month old daughter. I was pretty shocked and remember shutting down and just being quiet. I knew I should pray, but had nothing to say.
When my wife came home, I told her and we held Kennedy in our hallway, quietly weeping for what we knew would be an incredibly trying time for this family but also bringing the morality of our all, and our own children, to the forefront.
Last week, I blogged about the pride I felt watching Third Day perform on a national platform. Tonight, I know I'm not feeling pride, but I know that God uses tragedies to build his kingdom, and I'm proud (although again, that word doesn't work) to hear Steven, Mary Beth, Will and the rest of the family taking about a sorrow that is REAL (something we can't understand), that has consumed them, but has not overtaken their joy and comfort in a God that is bigger than anything we will ever face.
My heart is absolutely broken right now. As Christian music fans, we memorize songs of artists, see them at concerts, read and watch interviews and we get to know them on a level that's just under a personal relationship. To hear tragic news of this magnitude, from the family of an artist who has impacted so many, it's just tough.
Maybe in the near future, I'll dive into the response from these open and national interviews, because there's certainly enough truth and challenge to keep my occupied for months, but for now, I'm hanging onto an answer from Emily that she gave to the question, "How do you explain this faith?"
"God's mercies are new every morning," she said, "And I woke up the next morning, and He is the same since."
August 09, 2008, 21:04PM
Wow such strong faith and courage The ability to say yes I did and do question why. I thank the person that put it on You Tube as I don't have cable and thought I wouldn't experience it It was more than watching for many and I believe that Mr King has had a reality check for a second time first being when Joni Erikson Tada spent an hour with him back in 2006 I think. May we also remember to pray for the lost that are touched by tragic events such as these that they may indeed find our strength and courage to go beyond that dark valley that this amazing family is walking through
August 09, 2008, 03:40AM
I also want to add that I am happy to know that the Lord is really getting them through this and that they're faith has not faded but gotten stronger and that in time God will heal them all completly, because there's nothing he can't do.
August 09, 2008, 01:25AM
I don't have much to say right now just that I'm glad you blogged about this. I haven't stopped praying for them espescially for Will Franklin. Since May, I was always praying to God that he would show them a dream, a vision, anything, so they'd know that Maria was with the Lord, I felt in my heart that they needed some reasurance, so when I heard Steven talk about the flower and the "SEE" that Maria drew...I was speachless, God had answered my prayer and the prayer of many other's I'm sure. They are in my prayer's always.
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