Miracle friend inspires MercyMe’s powerful new song

to the grammy-nominated band mercyme the group was recently named billboard's top christian artist of the last decade and later this month they are releasing their 10th studio album inhale exhale yes and our very own will reeve caught up with the band to find out more about one of the songs on the album and the guy at the center of it fittingly the name is gary miracle he was our first merch guide 20 something years ago and he was terrible at it like he we just liked him i had a little short stint as their merch guy i'm sure they told you all about it i have to tell you they said that you weren't very good at it okay well i yes they say that i may not have been that good i was the best looking one gary miracle and the guys from best-selling christian rock group mercy me have had a bond for decades he's just a great friend yes he says what he thinks and he doesn't hold it back we're counting our words carefully because he actually texted us this morning and threatened us that we had to say nice things about him that bond gave gary strength and support when his life changed forever right after christmas 2019 i just got sick and that got worse and worse and to the point where i had to be airlifted from one hospital to another fell into septic shock i ended up coding i was lifeless for about seven and a half minutes they brought me back to life it's in a coma for 10 days after that and that's really where the journey started gary's illness cost him all four limbs but not his sense of humor he's like man i'm the same guy i'm just 40 pounds lighter and he looks at me like you know you want that oh yeah you're right i'm about to drop one on you right here this is the hand that god's dealt me without my hands am i allowed to laugh at that you can so that's the best part the lord gives and he takes away and he took away my hands and feet but the rest of that verse says blessed be the name of the lord so that's just the path that i've chosen to go down for now how do you avoid the anger and the despair at a thing bigger than you the thing that i keep coming back to is i realize that in this life we all have struggles right now in my life my struggles just happen to be a little bit more visible than somebody else's i don't know if i would have the same outlook on life if that had happened to me so watching him go through what he's gone through and can easily go through is incredibly encouraging attitude towards it is amazing and and uh his outlook is it's it's unbelievable inspired by their friend mercy me wrote a song say i won't in gary's honor [Music] [Applause] [Music] what was gary's reaction when he heard the song i texted it to him first he he was like oh my gosh and probably said things he shouldn't have said of how excited he was about it and then the rest of the day he was like say i won't get a drink of water say i won't answer say i won't we're like okay we get it we get it you're doing a lot of things right now they shot the music video in november gary's doctors said he could be walking within a year but just three months later gary was up and moving them giving me a platform and purpose through what i am going through and the way that i've been able to encourage people and people have been able to encourage me i'm forever grateful to those guys what does that feel like emotionally when you're walking with a walker it's a i'm a mess i am a blubbering mess to know that i'm gonna be okay where he came from where he started is the absolute miracle no pun intended is absolute miracle what's next for gary miracle to me this is a blip in my story i'm alive and god is good and i'm very thankful and blessed to be here and still married to my wife and still the father to my kids [Music] all right you can catch that song and a whole lot more on mercy me's upcoming new album love the title inhale exhale it's out april 30th well hey there gma fans robin roberts here thanks for checking out our youtube channel lots of great stuff here so go on click the subscribe button right over right over here to get more of awesome videos and content from gma every day anytime we thank you for watching and we'll see you in the morning on gma

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Length: 4min 51sec (291 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 15 2021