Worship Musician June 2019 | Page 44

lyrics. Do you find that kind of honesty hard to to her to help encourage her, and I would just I don’t know what you’re going through. I can’t express to others? find myself saying, “I love you, God loves you, imagine the pain that you’re going through. But and I’m praying for you.” So, when I sat down God loves you and He is a healer and He has [Mallary] No, it’s not hard at all for me. Like I to write “Pray with You”, my friend Heather plans for you, and I’m here and I’m praying for said, I write from a place of being honest and it was going through her chemo battle with you. Prayer is a powerful thing, so those songs comes from my heart. It’s something that I have breast cancer, and she had a four-year-old little all come from that vulnerable place of me being either gone through or I’ve seen someone that I boy, and she ended up passing away from it. honest and wanting to share this story with love, go through. With the song “Pray with You” Courtney ended up passing away and leaving someone that may be going through the same I wrote about two women that I adored and four kids behind. It was this moment in my life thing. who both passed away from breast cancer. where it really spoke to my heart and I wanted And when they were going through chemo, I to be able to say something for people that go had never experienced cancer close to me through cancer, or someone that they love is before. I never knew what to say, especially to going through cancer. Hopefully that song can [Mallary] I have been using the Gibson J200 my friend Courtney. I never knew what to say be used to encourage that person and say that for about ten years. My husband and I just 44 June 2019 [WM] What is your guitar of choice? Subscribe for Free...