Former AMERICAN IDOL Star Colton Dixon Talks Fatherhood: ‘It Deepened My Relationship With God’
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Former AMERICAN IDOL contestant Colton Dixon recently shared the impact his faith has had on his life and career.
“To me, faith is everything. It helps me in the small things and in the big things. And I believe that God cares about both,” the singer shared. “It’s carried me through the hard times and the fun times.”
He continued, “I’m just so thankful that I also have a wife who believes what I do, and we are able to come together. And she’s just that extra sauce on top to help you get through. And we also have twins as well. We welcomed twins in 2020. And so that was a crazy year, to say the least.”
Dixon and wife Annie Coggeshall met in 2012. He popped the question in 2015, and the couple wed the following year.
“We’ve just been loving life,” Dixon said of their marriage. “Faith is honestly the light that that gets us through.”
They welcomed twins, Ava and Athens, in 2020, and the birth tested their faith. Complications arose after Annie went into labor, and Ava, “wasn’t breathing” and had “no pulse.”
“It was kind of that, like, faith or fear moment, like, do you practice what you preach or do we panic, freak out, whatever,” the singer explained. “And like I said earlier, I’m so grateful to have a wife who believes the same way that I do. And even more so, she challenges me and just brings me up.
Dixon continued, “So right there in the hospital, we’re in the operating room, but we’re praying. Just like, ‘God, we believe, we’ve seen you do it before in different areas in our life. We believe that you’ll do it again.’ So whether He reached down directly and touched little Dior, she’s happy, healthy. You’d never know if there are any complications. We’re so grateful. She’s our little miracle baby.”
Both children are happy and healthy today, and Dixon shared that his new role as a father has strengthened his relationship with God.
“I remember being in the hospital, meeting my twins for the first time, and just having this overwhelming feeling of, man, there’s nothing I wouldn’t do for these kids. I just met these little humans and there’s nothing I wouldn’t do,” he said. “And at the same time, just almost that like, that little nudge deep inside of God just reassuring that in me as well. Just knowing, man, there’s nothing he wouldn’t do for me. And it just opened up this new perspective of my relationship with God. And it’s just really cool.”
“I think life is all about perspective,” Dixon concluded. “And with every new season, you get an opportunity for a different vantage point on the road that you’re walking or the relationships that you have around you. And now being a parent, it’s just deepened and strengthened my relationship with God.”
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