Rory Feek On Life Without Joey, Grammy Win, And His New Book | TODAY

Rory and Joey's story of love faith and hope has touched an awful lot of people and Rory writes about it in his new book this life I live very nice to see you welcome thank you for having congratulations wow what went through your mind when you heard that you guys want well my first thought was really really because they it's been an amazing year for the album we knew it would be special for us but I don't think we had any idea how special it would be for other people or where would lead what gospel music mean to you - well it's it's really where I get a lot of comfort now my wife grew up with that so she knew it long before I did but she's she's passed that on to me and it means a lot to me and my family and our little when she listens to our hymns record all the time you mentioned your little one Indiana how are you guys doing we're doing well she turns 3 this Friday so as exciting as the Grammys are that's a little more exciting for us we want to remind people Indiana was born with Down syndrome yes sir some of the milestones that come so naturally for other children or harder fought for her and I understand she recently learned to walk she has she started taking steps and she really took about eight steps the other day at her little school she goes to a special-needs school in Nashville and I told her I said I'm so proud of you in because she's turning 3 I said a lot of kids don't learn to walk till they're 1 so she's it's amazing especially when you take the pressure off of the expectations so they can just do it the way that they need to do it and we just celebrate it it doesn't feel late in this book on a number of occasions you refer to Joey in the present tense I'm curious why that is I think it's because she's so present in my life I I didn't I didn't know how I would feel but I feel her everywhere I go I feel I feel the choices that she made I feel the strength that she had and the love that she had for me and our family and I carry it with me and I also think it would be very tempting and very normal to write a book about your wife who you lost and loved so much and write only about glowing things and only write about the relationship in glowing terms and you don't do that you're honest about some of the struggles you two had yes sir well as amazing as our love story is and has become over the years all great stories have a beginning and and ours was tough like like everyone else's lunch on some of the ways well we were different you know she didn't want to be a mother and I had two little girls that I was raising on my own and she didn't want to be a mother and she told me so and I didn't want to be married to someone who wanted to be a singer those were pretty big obstacles but we believed we were meant to be together so how did you get through those a lot of couples would would not be able to get through those we got through them because my hopes and dreams and my agenda was shattered and hers was shattered and we were sort of left there a year after being married realizing okay I'm not going to get my way she's not going to get her way and in the end God just he had a different plan not only did we get to have an amazing marriage but he turned it into a music career together in a story that has been shared with lots of other folks and so if there's a message for readers to take away in your love story what what do you think it would be it would be that sometimes faith can change everything just faith in something greater than what you've lived before it doesn't matter where you came from I'm an unlikely person to be part of an amazing love story and I hope that's an encouragement to others you know talk to a lot of people who have lost a loved one and a spouse and and they often say that for a period of time time stands still that they feel they can't look forward they can't look to the future are you getting to a point where you can look toward a future I stay there I think my wife for her to be so positive to the very end even with a two year old playing on the floor if she can be positive I have nothing to be upset about I can be positive so when I ask you to look to the future what do you see I see an amazing journey that God has in store for all of us for my children and I and enjoy is going to be part of it I just believe that he's still going to be giving us a great story it's going to be different she's going to be part of it but that's what I see was you're the best thing it's really nice to have you here congratulations on your win of that Grammy - thank you sir I don't want to tell people the book is this life I live Rory thanks again hello today fans thanks for checking out our YouTube channel subscribe by clicking that button down there and click on any of the videos over here to watch the latest interviews show highlights and digital exclusives

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Length: 5min 1sec (301 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 14 2017