Granger Smith opened up about grief, faith, and his new movie titled, “Moonrise.”
Granger Smith
In 2019, country singer Granger Smith’s three-year-old son, River, died in drowning. The tragedy sparked a major growth in his Christian faith.
“[Before that,] I was a cultural Christian. It was a heritage for me. I could defend the faith, I understood the story of the gospel. I would have told you that I was saved by grace through faith, I would have told you who Jesus is. But I had never tested that. I’d never put that through the fire. I didn’t know what that meant to actually stand on that. And so when I first started putting that to the test and first started standing on that rock, I realized later as the grief got worse, and not better over time – and I ended up hitting rock bottom – I realized I was a cultural Christian.”
“Moonrise”
He then realized that he is loved and that he loves Jesus after a pastor preached John 14. Then award-winning singer really started diving into the Word of God.
“And I still do that every morning, desperate for His Word, hungry for His Word,” he said. “And that’s when it changed from cultural Christianity to I became an adopted son of our Lord.”
In his new movie, “Moonrise,” Smith saw how his story was similar to the character he plays, Will Brown. His role is a country singer who is grieving the death of his wife. He was attracted to the story right off the bat.
“Grief is good,” Smith told Christian Headlines. “… It’s a natural reaction to the love we have for someone that we lost. But when it turns into depression, that’s when it becomes self-deprecating, that’s when it becomes harmful to others and to ourselves. It goes beyond the actual cause of the loss in the first place. And it puts us in a holding pattern. That’s what we need to break, and we need to pull away from. And so yes, drawing on my own life experiences. I wanted to be able to become this character for others for that.”
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Reference: Christian Headlines