I Will Carry You (Audrey's Song)

So in the last care package my mom sent me, she also sent a brand new Selah CD. It's definitely one of their best ones. They usually sing hymns, but their arrangement for each of these timeless compositions, is simply stunning. However, they do throw in some contemporary pieces. 'I Will Carry You' is an original work that I believe was written by Amy (the female lead) for Todd (the male lead) and his wife. Here is the story. 
Todd and his wife, Angie, were do to have their third little girl. But at one of their check ups, they got some of the worst news that any expecting parents could get. The doctor told them that their little girl had developed many complications. He told them her lungs would never fully develop, her heart was enlarged, and if she were to live to full term, she would immediately gasp for breath and probably not live longer than five minutes. The doctor suggested an abortion but Todd and Angie decided they would keep their girl alive as long as God willed her to be. And so Angie had a c-section. Audrey cried, but she didn't gasp for breath. She lived two and a half hours and then passed quietly. 

So I listened to this song the first time without knowing the story behind it. Then I got curious. So I researched it and listened to the song again. I love the song, it is absolutely beautiful. It's at a perfect place for my voice to sing but I literally can't get through this song without BALLING my eyes out. I'm talking, complete and total wreck.. sobbing, hiccups, the works. I don't even have children. I don't know what it is like to bring life into the world, so I certainly don't know what it's like for it to be taken away two and a half hours later, but something about this story and this song makes my heart ache. God bless the parents of this little girl. 


There were photographs i wanted to take
Things I wanted to show you
Sing sweet lullabies wipe your teary eyes
Who could love you like this? 
People say that I'm brave but I'm not
Truth is I`m barely hanging on
But there`s a greater story
Written long before me
Because he loves you like this

So I will carry you
While your heart beats here
Long beyond the empty cradle
Through the coming years
I will carry you
All my life
And i will praise the one who`s chosen me
To carry you

Such a short time
Such a long road
All this madness
But i know
That the silence
Has brought me to his voice
And he says

I`ve shown her photographs of time beginning
Walked her through the parted seas
Angel lullabies no more teary eyes
Who could love her like this?

I will carry you
While your heart beats here
Long beyond the empty cradle
Through the coming years
I will carry you
All your life
And i will praise the one who`s chosen me
To carry you