Moriah Smallbone on Identity: ‘God You Have Created Me, My Identity Is In You’
By Movieguide® Staff
Moriah Smallbone, the wife to husband Joel Smallbone of the Christian band For King & Country, said she was at her “lowest low” at the end of 2019.
Smallbone said that just before the COVID-19 pandemic, one of her best friends betrayed her trust.
“I had experienced my deepest hurt, and probably my lowest low,” Smallbone, 29, told The Christian Post. “I went into quarantine before quarantine was a thing; I was so broken. I’ve heard people describe heartbreak before in a way where it’s like: ‘I don’t want to eat. I don’t want to get up out of bed. I just feel so heavy. I’m just so sad.'”
However, Smallbone said that she used the time of immense pain to run to God. But she confessed that it was exhausting asking for justice and healing.
“I think, in my striving for all of these things, I’m realizing that I’m hitting a wall with all of it,” Smallbone recalled praying to God at the time. “It’s not giving me the peace I so desperately need. I think the only thing that can do that is if I sit for long enough to actually experience what it feels like to be known, seen and loved by [God].”
Out of her realization, Smallbone wrote the song, “Known, Seen, Loved.”
“Healing, justice, power, you know, all of these things are so important. And they play a very important role in the health of a culture, in the health of human being,” Smallbone said. “But whenever we strive for those things more than working in any way we can to sit and to be and to know that we’re known, seen and loved despite what we do, or what has been done to us, we’ll just end up empty-handed.”
Smallbone’s new song will also appear on her upcoming EP and visual album, “Live From The Quarry,” which is set to release on Dec. 3.
“I’ve been writing and recording for the past decade, and never have I ever written a project on my own. Never have I ever produced a project on my own, and never have I ever written a project without the intention of releasing it into the world,” Smallbone said. “So those were like three big firsts that have really shaped the release process and the feelings that have gone along with that.”
Most recently, Smallbone released her single, “Worth,” which features her husband, Joel. Smallbone said that “Worth” is a deeply personal song about abuse, healing, and endurance.
“When your circumstances, when the people around you, when the situation you find yourself in is tearing you down, is trying to tell you that you’re not worthy, that you’re not worth it, that you don’t deserve love, … it takes so much mental fortitude and strength of spirit to go, ‘God you have created me, and my identity is in You,'” she said.
Smallbone also is set to appear in the upcoming biopic about Ronald Reagan, played by Dennis Quaid. In the movie, Smallbone portrays Loyce Whiteman.
“Why would we be alive in this time, and not 100 years ago, or 100 years from now? Why? I hope everybody asks that question, regardless of their job description. Why do I exist right now, for such a time as this? Why has God put a microphone in front of me?” she continued.
“When I start with the ‘why,’ I find that it often leads to something that’s bigger than myself. I realized that music is a really powerful tool, but it’s not the only tool in the box. … It’s not about any form of success; I don’t need anything, I’m so content, I have way more than I ever thought that I would have just as a person. I really am thankful to be sharing music from an overflow,” she added. “Culturally, particularly this generation, we’re pretty overwhelmed, we’re pretty inundated, and it’s hard to mentally process all that we’re exposed to in a single day, let alone 20 years.
“I think that as people hear the songs, I hope that they can serve as an underscore to their pain, a soundtrack to their questions, that the music that I created in a time where I was very alone, and I felt very just heavy and in a really scared place, that it would be a comfort to someone else to know that they’re not alone in that. There is joy, there is healing on the other side.”
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