talking about family as it relates to ministry – are you good with that?
[ Cody Carnes ] Yeah.
[ Kari Jobe ] Yeah, totally.
[ WM ] Kari, the backdrop behind your last record The Garden had a lot to do with the heartbreak behind the still borne birth of your sister’ s daughter that coincided with your and Cody’ s first pregnancy. But that was not the first time your family walked through this kind of tragedy. Kari, in a video I came across on YouTube, I discovered that you were actually a miracle baby. Can you share a bit about your story as well as how your family has leaned on one another and your faith in the face of tragedy? Cody, I’ d love to hear from you as well.
[ Kari ] That’ s right, yeah. I haven’ t really gotten to share much of that part of my story so I think it is really special that you ask me that. I think what’ s special is that my Mom didn’ t make that
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a big thing when I was a kid, because I think that would have been something that was an identity thing.
She actually didn’ t tell me until later in my life that there were major complications while she was pregnant with me. I’ ve grown up in a family who just trusts God, and my parents have really taught us as a family to take God at his word and that He’ s a healer, He’ s faithful, that He’ s good.
So I think when my sister walked through this situation, that’ s why I felt like the wind got knocked out of my lungs because I just didn’ t see it coming. And I still do really trust God and really feel like He’ s faithful. I went through a season with that experience where I asked,“ Really? Are you really faithful? Because this doesn’ t feel like you are, this feels like you blinked for a minute and took your eyes off of our family.” And that’ s just me being really raw and honest, it just was really tough.
But God really just used it actually for all of us, to help us dig deeper and rally around each other to still declare the truth of the word of God even when our emotions weren’ t there. Eventually we really started to see God at work in that situation and Him making it turn into something really beautiful. It’ s still sensitive, it’ s been three years this month actually, her sweet little birthday is in about a week and a half. So this is a really sensitive time of the year for our family still. We went and heard the heartbeat today of our new baby, and I got teary eyed because I remembered that three years ago it was a whole different scenario for my sister.
I think the whole scripture, that things happen to good and bad people, it’ s not like we’ re
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