A songwriter who turned personal health struggles into songs of faith that found a wide audience.
If you want to understand her approach, start with "Blessings" and "Death Was Arrested." They frame the space she works in pretty clearly.
Her 2005 single "Blessings" became a quiet hit on Christian radio, offering a perspective on gratitude that came directly from her own experience with illness. Songs like "Make Something Beautiful" and "Death Was Arrested" continued that thread of finding faith in difficult moments. She writes the kind of music that feels lived-in rather than polished.
Born in Atlanta in 1976, she started writing songs as a way to process health issues, including a rare neurological disorder. After "Blessings" connected in 2005, she kept writing through a 2011 brain tumor diagnosis and surgery, and later navigated public criticism after performing at a controversial benefit.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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