{"id":1317009,"date":"2019-11-29T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1815177"},"modified":"2019-11-29T06:00:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T13:00:24","slug":"craig-morgan-says-his-family-depends-on-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/craig-morgan-says-his-family-depends-on-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Morgan Says His Family Depends on Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:685397?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\"> by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/cmtcomstaff\/\" title=\"Posts by CMT.com Staff\" rel=\"author\">CMT.com Staff<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n13m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/craig-morgan\">Craig Morgan<\/a> accepts his calling to perform \u201cThe Father, My Son, and the Holy Ghost,\u201d even when the pain feels too much to bear.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <em>CMT Hot 20 Countdown<\/em> host Cody Alan, Morgan says, \u201cThis is where God placed me and now I have an obligation because I don\u2019t want to face God and go, \u2018You know, I didn\u2019t do what you wanted me to do.\u2019 So as much as it hurts, as difficult as it is, I feel like I have a responsibility now. It\u2019s a really weird thing and it\u2019s an odd balance. I feel like I should be doing it but I don\u2019t want to do it. Right now, it hurts. You know, it\u2019s a struggle.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Father, My Son, and the Holy Ghost\u201d was written by Morgan in memory of his oldest son, Jerry Greer, who died in a drowning accident in 2016 at the age of 19. In this interview, Morgan recalls the moment he had the idea for the song, the experience of performing it live, and the closeness he still feels from his son.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9QvUkGQioRg?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9QvUkGQioRg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Cody Alan: As a dad, my heart broke for you the day I found out about Jerry. I think for so many fans, we wondered, \u201cHow are you going to cope with this? What do you do?\u201d So, to hear you put it into song is so moving and so emotional. Thank you for bringing this song to us. Tell me about \u201cThe Father, My Son, and the Holy Ghost,\u201d and how it helped you cope?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Craig Morgan: I don\u2019t know. I wish I could say that it does help. I think that the true help, as far as coping, comes from seeing what this song is doing for the people. \u2026 As tough as it is for me, I know it\u2019s that tough and even more so for my wife. So it\u2019s really difficult. Even now, if you have a moment of joy for some reason you feel guilty. For a year I couldn\u2019t even hardly kiss my wife and not feel uncomfortable, because that\u2019s a joyous moment when you share that with your partner.<\/p>\n<p>You feel guilty, and she would cry, so it was really tough to figure out how to how to maneuver through all these emotions. But one morning, about 3:30 in the morning, I woke up literally singing that chorus in my head and I remember sitting up on the edge of the bed thinking, \u201cI need to write this down or I\u2019ll forget it. And it feels like it\u2019s important.\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n<p>So I went downstairs, I got a guitar and I started playing a melody that I felt like I heard in my head. I\u2019m not the greatest guitarist in the world but I play enough to write to. So I started writing it. And then four hours later I completely finished the song, word for word, the way you hear it now. And it just happened. And I cried. I mean, I cried so much.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:ae579a7b-f2dd-4b34-8c87-16354286813e\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>We saw some of those raw emotions when you performed it on the Grand Ole Opry stage. Tell me about that night. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s tough. That was the first time I performed it on the Opry. It was only the second time that I\u2019d ever performed the song in front of the public. So it\u2019s difficult. I would hope that I get better at doing it as I progress, as the song progresses, but I just don\u2019t know. I will say, there\u2019s days that that it\u2019s easier to perform. But it\u2019s never easy. <\/p>\n<p>I have found that if I\u2019m well rested I have the ability to control my emotions a little better. If I\u2019m not, it\u2019s a lot harder to control my emotions. I\u2019m sure there\u2019s some magical technical medical terms. But I do know that about myself. So I try to rest up as much as I can, because I want to perform the song. I want to deliver it. I want people that need to hear it to be able to hear it. \u2026 <\/p>\n<p>In fact the other night I didn\u2019t do it and I had quite a few messages from people who came to the show to hear that song. There was one lady in particular who had a sign. And when I saw the sign I lost it. I said, \u201cI can\u2019t do it.\u201d Because I knew I wouldn\u2019t get through the song \u2026 but I try as much as I can to respond to people who have lost a child. And I responded to her and told her I apologize. <\/p>\n<p>But what they didn\u2019t know, my youngest son was at that show and I didn\u2019t want him to hurt any more than he was already hurting. I knew by doing that song it was gonna make it tough on him before he went home that night. So I didn\u2019t do it. And I think she respected that and appreciated it. I know she did because she responded to my message to her.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ce5I8f95WEA?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ce5I8f95WEA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>We see how difficult it is for you to perform the song in the music video, which was filmed at Morgan Farms. The setting was really important to you and really special. Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That was a special place for my family. That came about after Jerry. I started that business not to make a living off of it, but I knew it was important that my family focused on something together. And so we did that. You see in the video there is a stained glass window of Saint Michael, and Saint Michael was Jerry\u2019s saint. His middle name was Michael. So that was an important element in this whole process for us. We depend on our prayer a lot to help us daily to get through this and Saint Michael was an integral part of that because of Jerry and his middle name.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You\u2019re the sole writer on the song, but you\u2019ve said God really gave you the song. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m hesitant to utilize this analogy because I would never want anyone to think that I\u2019m comparing myself to anyone biblical because I am not that guy. I\u2019m not a Moses or Paul or Peter and in no way do I compare myself to any of them. But what God does do, and he did in all of those situations, he always took an individual that was not supposed to be the person. I\u2019ve always considered myself a fair songwriter, I\u2019m a fair producer, I\u2019m a fair singer. So God took a mediocre songwriter, mediocre singer, and a mediocre musician and producer and did something miraculous. <\/p>\n<p>If I\u2019d brought in Dean Dillon to write that song for me, everybody would say, \u201cOh yeah. Dean Dillon,\u201d or Phil O\u2019Donnell. The guys I write with who are great phenomenal writers. There\u2019s a \u201cOh, it makes sense.\u201d So now it\u2019s like there\u2019s a \u2018wow\u2019 factor because it was just me. And God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It did strike me, too, because all my life I\u2019ve heard \u201cThe Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.\u201d But here it\u2019s \u201cThe Father, My Son and the Holy Ghost.\u201d Talk about that title.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah. I think a lot of it came from my transition \u2014 I\u2019ve recently converted to Catholicism. I started doing a lot of study on our Christianity, our faith, and our son Jerry was going through the RCIA [Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults] program at the Catholic Church. He and my youngest and my wife were going through it at the time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And before this you were a different religion?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christian. I\u2019ve always been Christian. I\u2019m still a Christian. I\u2019m just a Catholic, not a Baptist. I got educated on a lot of history. I think that\u2019s where the title came from. Knowing the Trinity and the importance of the Trinity \u2014 the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost are all one and the same. So first I struggled with it, thinking, \u201cI hope my priest won\u2019t say that was blasphemy in any way,\u201d but I realized that it\u2019s not, because the Father and the Son are one, and the Holy Ghost is part of the Trinity. <\/p>\n<p>But for me, I have God. And the story is so true. When I do have my coffee out at the house and I can see, you know, we have a family cemetery and I have him with me, in my presence. \u2026 My son is there with me. He\u2019s there. I don\u2019t physically get to touch him and hug him like I do my other children, but his heart and his love \u2014 I feel that and that\u2019s where that came from. It\u2019s a bit of a play on the words, and to justify my son being a part there with me. He is in Heaven. I know that. I\u2019m confident in where he\u2019s at and I\u2019ll see him again.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1815177\/craig-morgan-says-his-family-depends-on-prayer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by CMT.com Staff 13m ago Craig Morgan accepts his calling to perform \u201cThe Father, My Son, and the Holy Ghost,\u201d even when the pain feels too much to bear. Speaking to CMT Hot 20 Countdown host Cody Alan, Morgan says, \u201cThis is where God placed me and now I have an obligation because I don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1317009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 14:09:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}