{"id":1763838,"date":"2022-12-05T18:17:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T23:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1763838"},"modified":"2022-12-05T18:18:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T23:18:01","slug":"surrendered-to-god-country-singer-granger-smith-says-faith-saved-my-life-after-losing-his-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/surrendered-to-god-country-singer-granger-smith-says-faith-saved-my-life-after-losing-his-child\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Surrendered To God\u2019: Country Singer Granger Smith Says Faith \u2018Saved My Life\u2019 After Losing His Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsurrendered-to-god-country-singer-granger-smith-says-faith-saved-my-life-after-losing-his-child%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1763838&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Country star Granger Smith said that after the death of his 3-year-old son River he \u201csurrendered to God\u201d as he credited his faith with saving his life in what was \u201crock bottom\u201d for him.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/7-country-singers-who-remain-unashamed-conservatives\">43-year-old<\/a> country singer said it wasn\u2019t until he \u201csurrendered to God\u201d that he was able to get past what happened and find not only grief but joy again after River drowned in their pool at home in 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/country-music-singer-granger-smith-turned-to-faith-darkest-times\">Fox News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, it saved my life, essentially,\u201d Smith shared of his faith. \u201cFrom the darkest of grief.\u00a0My wife [Amber] and I lost our little boy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRiver was 3 years old, and we went down a journey that I thought I could fix on my own with self-help and self-improvement and exercise and positivity and visualization, meditation and devotionals,\u201d he added. \u201cI thought I could just mend it, fix it and move on, and I couldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cBackroad Song\u201d hitmaker then opened up about what he, his wife, and their family went through with River.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin seconds, right behind me while I was doing gymnastics with our daughter, he [River]was in the pool and had inhaled water,\u201d Smith shared. \u201cBecame unconscious. When I pulled him out, I didn\u2019t know CPR, besides what I had seen in the movies, and we lived out in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, it took paramedics 10 minutes to get there,\u201d he added. \u201cThat\u2019s too long to go without oxygen to his little brain, and it ended up being irreversible. The damage to his brain ended up killing him the next day. The months and years following were \u2026 rock bottom for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Country music singer Granger Smith turned to faith during darkest times: &#8216;It saved my life&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K8l7xdeIEB\">https:\/\/t.co\/K8l7xdeIEB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews\/status\/1599825963751292943?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The country star also encouraged others who were in dark times and asking the question \u201cwhy God would allow this\u201d to happen them to turn to God where he said they will learn that \u201cnothing is an accident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce we know that, then we could stop saying \u2018Why, God, why did you do this to me?\u2019 \u2018Why would a good God allow this to happen?&#8217;\u201d the singer shared. \u201cInstead, we could then say, \u2018What God? What are you trying to show me in this? What do I need to learn from this? To be closer to you. To understand you better. To help serve others around me. What do I need to know?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Amber and Granger welcomed a son into the world, Maverick. The couple also share two other children together London, 11, and Lincoln, 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country star Granger Smith said that after the death of his 3-year-old son River he \u201csurrendered to God\u201d as he credited his faith with saving his life in what was \u201crock bottom\u201d for him. The 43-year-old country singer said it wasn\u2019t until he \u201csurrendered to God\u201d that he was able to get past what happened &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1763841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1763838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1763841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}