Beauty Will Rise

I just bought Steven Curtis Chapman's newest CD from iTunes last night.  The songs were written shortly after his daughter, Maria, was accidentally hit and killed by his teenage son while he was backing out of their driveway.  As I listen to these songs, the depth of the pain is obvious, but the commitment to his faith and his hope for the future is just as evident.  Life is so uncertain.  Today's happiness may end in tomorrow's sorrow.  I have a friend right now who is walking through a valley that was not of her doing.  As much as I want to do something, I can do nothing.  I know that God is sovereign and He can move in miraculous ways even now, but I feel so inadequate to help.

This came from his web site and it touched me just as much as his music.  If you haven't heard any of this new CD, I strongly recommend checking it out.

"It is weird for me to even call this a record because it is just my personal psalms from this journey that we have been on," says Steven. "After we lost Maria, I did not know if I would ever write anymore songs or if I would ever sing again. The last thing I wanted to do is turn any of this into a song. Then you realize "God, this is what has happened to us and now what would you have me to do with it?" Slowly songs began to just come out as ways for me to try to process what I was thinking and feeling and what my family and I were walking through." Knowing that things would never be the same, Steven and his family began navigating what they"ve come to refer to as the "new normal."