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Shockingly, things didn’t end between Feek and his friend’s wife after the drunken encounter.
He continued, “I was still drunk.
Reeling from what had happened the night before.
It had felt like love.
… Maybe it was.
I said, ‘Okay, let’s do it.'”
Feek moved the wife and her children in with him, but things fell apart after six short months.
“She still loved him.
My friend,” he wrote.
Meanwhile, mine had been wrecked."
As a result, “being sick wasn’t allowed because we couldn’t afford it.”
Unbeknownst to her father at the time, the little girl had in fact broken her leg.
The next day, Feek took Heidi to ER and learned how serious her injury was.
He remembers “[looking] at the fracture, and tears poured down my face.
Hated that I couldn’t provide better for them.”
Feek reminisced that “[Joey] told me she was dating a wonderful guy.
Joey called him on Valentine’s Day to inform him she had broken up with her boyfriend.
God had just moved a mountain, right in front of me.
And I was going to see what was on the other side.”
Naturally, she was delighted.
“I knew no one had ever done anything like that for her.”
“She couldn’t stop crying.
I held her as her tears ran down my shirt.
It was so, so beautiful.”
What changed, though, was that Joey chose to put her fate in the hands of God.
Almost a year later, Joey was pregnant with their daughter Indiana.
While pregnancy was initially a struggle for Joey, Feek observed a shift.
“When she was about 5 or 6 months pregnant, it all changed.”
I watched a true transformation take place."
She fought valiantly for almost two years before she succumbed to the disease in March 2016.
Although Joey said she initially thought, “I’m going to be that exception.
Despite staring death straight in the eyes, Joey was adamant that she was not afraid of dying.
I know he’s close.
And I know he loves me.
I’m really at peace.
I still believe there’s healing in prayer.”
“Sometimes faith can change everything,” he explained in the sameTodayinterview.
“Just faith in something greater than what you lived before.
It doesn’t matter where you came from.”
“He’s still going to be giving us a great story.
It’s going to be different.”
And my new normal is somehow learning to be her and me both.
I’m highly aware that I’m not as good at either of them.
I don’t spend a lot of time regretting or wishing things were different.
I’m busy making oatmeal and giving baths."
Then, he became a single dad for the second time after Joey passed away.
I made so many mistakes and was so selfish.
At times I was more concerned about being a great songwriter than being a great father.
In a lot of ways, I think the girls raised me while I was raising them."
He said that he had “pretty much retired” from music.
In the end though, it was both."
“I selfishly want our songs to go on together forever.”
“Our lives and love story to never end.”
