Blessing, the singer of Brighter Days, talks about how he wrestles with God when the hardships of life show up and how he handled loss after loss.
Brighter Days Singer, Blessing
According to Movie Guide, Blessing was born blind in one eye. He never let his illness stop him from learning music, though. Just before he went blind in both eyes, he learned to play the piano when he was 10 years old. He also never stopped learning music, no matter what was going on in his life. His goal became to use music to bring people closer to God.
Blessing pursued the dream, but he admitted that it’s not always “fun.”
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In his younger years, his identity revolved around being the “athletic blessing.”
“My identity was wrapped up in being this top seventh, and eighth-grade athlete, which is in hindsight so narrow. But when you’re 12, that’s everything. And I remember thinking, “Okay, I have to find some way to convince my friends that I’m still the same person,’” he recalled.
Brighter Days Singer Gets Real About Wrestling With God
When he was going through everything that a teenager could experience, he asked God “what He was doing.”
“So going through that process of coming to grips with hard things and God’s place in those hard things, in the middle of those hard things, is something that I think… Whether it’s losing your vision, or going through some other illness, or going through a reversal of fortune,” he said. “Or going through whatever it is, life is just about us learning that lesson which is in the New Testament. It says ‘Who among you can add a minute to their life or hair to their head by worrying?’”
But Blessing also had days when it was hard to get by, especially when his sister died.
Life
“But I don’t want people to think, again, that this is some kind of 30-minute sitcom, where things are perfect. My sister just died a month ago and that has been awful. And me and God wrestle on a daily basis,” he said.
But life goes on for all of us, the same for Blessing. He learned how to move on and accept that not every day is perfect; we just keep moving forward, even if it hurts, is uncomfortable, and painful.
“And it’s because life is still life. You know what I mean? And it’s this weird thing where life just keeps moving for all of us. And until we find ourselves in front of God,” he said.
Reference: 99.1 JOY FM
Header image: Blessing [99.1 JOY FM]. YouTube, 6 November 2023, https://youtu.be/LvsGQG_xpsM
