One of the most impressive things about Christian music this month happened not on a stage somewhere or on the music charts.
It was Steven Curtis Chapman and his family, going public in the media for the first time since losing their youngest daughter in a tragic accident back in May.
It was impressive on a lot of levels, mostly for how human Steven and his wife Mary Beth were as they grappled with a hard-to-imagine horror.
It might seem that people of faith sometimes come across as too artificial when something terrible happens, that it’s somehow un-Christian to not understand why God would let this happen.
But the Chapmans were not smiling stoics, saying It’s God’s Will and all of that.
The watching world of Christians and non-Christians alike saw a family that does not, on a human level, understand why their little girl had to be struck and killed by a vehicle driven by their older son.
They mourn her, they comfort their son, and they don’t understand a lot of things about this, the Chapmans said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
But they also understand that their faith in God is not based just on Him causing good things to happen in life, and they’re going to keep on trusting in Him.
Along with “GMA,” the Chapmans also were on “Larry King Live” and in People magazine.
Chapman, who thought he could never sing his new hit “Cinderella” again in wake of young daughter Maria’s death, now vows to sing the moving song again.
That’s an amazing thing, I think, speaking as someone who can be moved to tears by “Cinderella.” And I’m a Steeler fan.
Chapman, who has more Dove awards than any other Christian music artist in his long career, may be making his most important statement yet.
With some help from where little Maria now lives.