{"id":1319659,"date":"2020-04-27T13:51:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T19:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1820661"},"modified":"2020-04-27T13:51:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T19:51:35","slug":"this-is-what-happens-when-rachel-wammack-says-amen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/this-is-what-happens-when-rachel-wammack-says-amen\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is What Happens When Rachel Wammack Says Amen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:692409?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\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n22m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Rachel Wammack wrote her new\/old song back in March of 2018. <\/p>\n<p>And now, her \u201cWhen I Say Amen\u201d is the right song for right now. Because timing is everything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlmost exactly two years later, Nashville was hit by a tornado. I could actually hear it ripping through homes half a mile away from me while I sat in my bathroom, terrified, holding my cat and reading my Bible. Then I realized I hadn\u2019t actually taken a second to pray,\u201d Wammack says of the song she wrote with with Matt Maher and Sam Ellis, \u201cand with my eyes open, holding Stevie in my arms, looking at the bathroom wall, I prayed.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AU5Ru7Qq_Uw?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\/AU5Ru7Qq_Uw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>Then shortly after those tornadoes wreaked havoc on Nashville, so did the coronavirus. And again, Wammack felt like prayers were in order. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBarely a week later, COVID-19 entered the picture\u2026slowly but surely becoming the focus of every day and every conversation. Now people are losing even more,\u201d she said, \u201csome are losing their jobs, some are losing their stability, some are losing their minds, and some are losing their hope.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast week I listened to \u2018When I Say Amen\u2019 for the first time in a long time, and I felt a voice inside say, \u2018I think you wrote this song for this. Right now.\u2019 I\u2019ve never had anything like that happen to me before. I\u2019ve always believed prayer goes far beyond church walls, but sometimes things seem too big or I forget to pray. But when I do, whether in a scary tornado or when things didn\u2019t turn out like I wanted, I\u2019m reminded I\u2019m not alone. I feel more peace in the good and the bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lyrics:<br \/><em><br \/>I say it broken when the whole world is hurting<br \/>I say it hoping it\u2019s just what I need<br \/>I say it believing when my heart is bleeding<br \/>That my words break the ceiling when I say amen<br \/>At the end of a prayer<br \/>Running out on the edge<br \/>On fire like a sunset<br \/>I lift my hands<br \/>To first love shooting stars<br \/>Burning candles in the dark<br \/>Every step, every breath<br \/>That\u2019s when I say amen<br \/>I say it loud with I do\u2019s at a wedding<br \/>Back of the bleachers at a cold homecoming game<br \/>Sing it out lonely here on the highway<br \/>When life won\u2019t go my way I say it again<br \/>At the end of a prayer<br \/>Running out on the edge<br \/>On fire like a sunset<br \/>I lift my hands<br \/>To first love shooting stars<br \/>Burning candles in the dark<br \/>Every step, every breath<br \/>That\u2019s when I say amen<br \/>Amen, amen, amen<br \/>I say it quiet when faith is a whisper<br \/>And I hear it echo like a heavenly choir<br \/>At the end of a prayer<br \/>Running out on the edge<br \/>On fire like a sunset<br \/>I lift my hands<br \/>To first love shooting stars<br \/>Burning candles in the dark<br \/>Every step, every breath<br \/>That\u2019s when I say amen<br \/>That\u2019s when I say amen<br \/>Amen, amen<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\"> Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville. <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a> <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1820661\/this-is-what-happens-when-rachel-wammack-says-amen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 22m ago Rachel Wammack wrote her new\/old song back in March of 2018. And now, her \u201cWhen I Say Amen\u201d is the right song for right now. Because timing is everything. \u201cAlmost exactly two years later, Nashville was hit by a tornado. I could actually hear it ripping through homes half a [&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-1319659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 22:37:22","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\/1319659","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=1319659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}