Steven Curtis Chapman
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Jeff and I were on a bus, got back to Nashville, and then went to Branson, Missouri to get to where they were, he and his wife.
We were going to spend some time together.
And the whole time I'm praying, trying to talk to myself, God, I know my wife's different.
I need to embrace this.
But, man, this is just really hard, really a struggle.
And show up at the door, and she's sad and tears in her eyes because she knows that I'm disappointed, and yet I'm trying to embrace it and I'm trying to get to a place.
And that was one really โ I remember very monumental.
And the whole thing I was wrestling with was โ
God, you gave me this very differently wired, her experience, everything about this.
And how do I love and embrace her and celebrate even that difference in all the right ways?
And yet, man, I'm really struggling with this.
And so over, I think, the course of our journey and our life,
You know, there have continued to be those kinds of things where it's just, I mean, I've written songs about it, wrote a whole song, How Do I Love Her?
I mean, that whole song, I remember when I wrote that on the All About Love record was just,
Now, here's this woman that is so, she's wired differently.
And it, you know, sometimes it's not, I mean, it sounds so silly.
Like a, well, yes.
See, that is implied in she's wired differently than I am.
Not saying you're wired wrongly.
I'm the one wired wrong, okay?