Welcome to “The Now”

Thank you for taking the time to check out “The Now”! Our goal is to use this section of Narrow Road to give a real-life look into our family as we navigate life more than a year after our daughters’ death. As of writing this blog post, it’s been 1 year and 7 months since Blakely died. There has been SO much that has happened in that time, and this will be the space for us to tell you.

The past year and 7 months have been filled with a ton of healing. That doesn’t come without pain, suffering, tears, or grief, but it also doesn’t come without joy, peace, comfort, fun, and even happy tears. From time spent away just Morgan and me, to picking up new hobbies, to hearing God call us into new and awesome things, these past couple of years have brought way more than we could have imagined.

I’ll start this first post off by saying how we got our name - Narrow Road. Morgan is an amazing singer/songwriter and has written countless worship songs. Morgan and I just recently released our first worship album, War & Wonder, on all platforms! This was a project that we started even before we had Blakely. The Lord had laid songs on our hearts over the years and we were blessed with studio time to be able to go record them! We’re thankful to our worship team, MXA Worship, for that time. The year that we had studio time, we went through having and losing Blakely. After a year of recording music, we looked back on the songs we had written and recorded and realized that it wasn’t until after Blakely had died that we fully understood the gravity of a lot of the songs we were singing. One of those songs popped out to us more than any other after Blakely’s death - Narrow Road.

Here on the narrow road
no one to be found
I walk the hill alone
no one to be found

Can anyone hear me?
I’m calling out
Can anyone hear me now?

Here on the narrow road
Oh God, in You I’m found
My strength lies in You alone
the only strength I’ve found

I know You hear me
My cries resound
I know You hear me now
I know you hear me
Your grace abounds
I know You hear me now

You hear me
You break through the silence
You know me
You see past the shadows
You guide me
Forever and always You walk beside me

Listening back, these lyrics described perfectly the state of our lives. Did we know what we were singing when we recorded it? Did Morgan know what she was saying when she first wrote it? Looking back, I think not. Seeing this song, we knew God had given it to Morgan for a time and place, and that time and place was October 12, 2019, in an emergency room. Narrow Road describes our grief, our experience navigating loss, and how though we may feel isolated and walking through our grief alone, God is there with us. He hears our cry, His grace is with us, He guides us, and walks beside us. So after everything had happened with Blakely, we went back into the studio with our amazing friend, Dalton - who recorded the piano and drums for the song and re-recorded it in this new space we were in. The result was breathtaking and we felt as if every note, every word, every harmony fell in line with our new understanding of grief and of God.

In light of that song, we created this site to be a message of that hope.

We can’t wait to keep you updated with our lives even more as we go through this journey together.

PS. If you’d like to listen to Narrow Road along with the other songs on our worship album, War & Wonder, click here!