Legendary Christian singer Steven Curtis Chapman says in a new interview that he has felt led by God to open up about his grief journey and to sing about God’s faithfulness, some 15 years after his 5-year-old daughter, Maria Sue Chapman, died following a tragic accident at their home.
The Grammy-winning CCM artist says he referenced that tragedy on the title track of his 2022 album Still when it describes life as “beautiful and terrible, more painful, more wonderful than I ever could have known.” The chorus also references God’s presence in the midst of pain: “Still, I’m gonna sing about the One who’s given life to me … His love is unchanging, His gracе is amazing.”
He said he wants to encourage others.
“There’s humility in just knowing: God, You are God, and I am not,” Chapman told Christian Headlines. “But even having walked through our own personal loss of our daughter and 15 years into that journey — that doesn’t go away, that doesn’t get easier. What do you do with that?
“And what I have done, by God’s grace, is to say: God, You are faithful. And You’re good. I don’t understand all of this. But I know the fact that we are on our own personal journey,…
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