The Song That Couldn't Wait
In 2018, a young worship leader named Keisha drove three hours from Atlanta to her grandmother's house in rural Alabama. She had just learned she...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Luke 1:39-56.
In 2018, a young worship leader named Keisha drove three hours from Atlanta to her grandmother's house in rural Alabama. She had just learned she was pregnant — unmarried, twenty-two, terrified of what people would say. She hadn't told her mother yet. She hadn't told her pastor. But something in her spirit said, "Go to Grandma Ruth." When Keisha stepped onto that sagging porch, Ruth was already standing at the screen door, arms wide open.…
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