NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – When country trio Lady Antebellum announced a hiatus last year, singer Hillary Scott thought it was a good opportunity to finally work on an album of hymns with her equally talented musical family.
But instead she found herself grieving over a miscarriage she had last year and feeling like she was at the most broken point in her life. Scott turned to songwriting to have a conversation with God about the pain she felt, and “Thy Will” became the focal point of the deeply personal family faith album called “Love Remains,” released Friday.
“I fully believe that God showed up that day and we were pass-throughs for a message that he knew and I quickly saw that a lot of people needed to hear,” Scott, 30, said of the song that she wrote with Emily Weisband and Bernie Herms. “And that is it is OK to question why things happen. We’re supposed to – he expects that.”
Scott, who has a three-year-old daughter Eisele Kay with her husband Chris, said she didn’t want to hide the truth from her fans about the miscarriage.
“It just felt like this silent struggle,” she said. “And there is some pressure, whether it’s put on myself or society or whatever, to not talk about it. I just had to go in with a hammer and bust that out because I knew that this was something that was going to be a part of me for the rest of my life.”