Worship Musician Magazine May 2021 | Page 7

A multilingual singer and worshiper , Christine ’ s voice has been heard worldwide throughout the church . Recording in English , Spanish , and Portuguese , she ’ s also a gifted songwriter , author , and public speaker .
[ WM ] Christine , how very nice it is to visit with you today ! Thank you for your time with us .
[ Christine D ’ Clario ] Thank you .
[ WM ] I ’ ve got to begin with what I ’ ve recently learned , and that is that you ’ ve been signed by Capitol Christian Music , and your partnership with them is quite expansive . I ’ ve read that your upcoming releases will include English , Spanish , and Portuguese versions of live and studio recordings . It doesn ’ t sound like the Lord is holding back on any opportunities for you !
[ Christine ] Absolutely not , and I constantly am in awe of that very thing . It ’ s just like God to use this season to demonstrate His kindness and the abundance of His grace . I actually am coming out of a season of a lot of struggle with mental health . My life has been full of childhood trauma , having lost my Dad when I was six and being a survivor of sexual abuse at five , and seeing years later how God has restored it all . I ’ ve had two , miraculous children when I had infertility , prior to falling into a very deep and dark post-partum depression .
So , I ’ ve been in therapy and counseling and treating my mind for the first time to some well overdue healing from everything . Just sitting with the pain , which is something I had never done , but just sitting with the pain to see where I was at in the pit , so that I would know how to ask for help to get out of it . Now that I ’ m on the other side of it , finding healing , finding wholeness in what I thought was wasted and invaluable , is just like God to do such a marvelous show of abundance in my future , which was something I had lost hope in . Part of the depression situation was also a battle with suicide thoughts . So that hopelessness and being convinced that it was all over as I knew it , it would never be as good as it was , is just being constantly morphed into the truth that God is actively showing me that the latter days are definitely going to be better than the former , absolutely .
[ WM ] He can and does redeem and reinvent us . Are we agreed ?
[ Christine ] Ah . So He can ! And it doesn ’ t have to be one big restoration experience in our lives . I understand now more than ever what He meant when He said , “ If the righteous fall seven times you ’ ve got to lift them up seven times ”, no questions asked . And He won ’ t remind you of the first , the second , or the third time because He put those at the bottom of the sea never to remember them . So , to Him
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