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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