By Movieguide® Staff
Country-singer-turned-minister Granger Smith shared his thoughts on what can keep people from their faith in his upcoming book, Poison In The Well.
“This one is more exciting to me because Like a River was wrapped so much in my personal story of losing my son, River, our journey through grief, loss and recovery, and then the birth of my son Maverick,” Smith told Fox News, referring to his previous book. “And that really encompasses that era. And in that era, God saved me.”
He continued, “God saving me was what spurred so much change in my life…I left an entire music career. It changed the whole direction of my life and my family’s life. The new book walks directly down that journey so that if anyone says, ‘Your book “Like a River” was inspiring,’ then I could hand them ‘Poison in the Well’ and say, ‘These are the mechanics of why everything changed after.’”
In Poison In The Well, Smith explores his own doubts about faith following the death of his son, asking himself, “What if everything I believe about my faith was actually built on shifting sand?”
“And that is a question I believe a lot of people would ask in the deep, dark throes of grief when you lose a loved one, a marriage or a job — or, this might sound trivial, but it’s not — even a pet,” he said. “Anything that you lose that you love, and you’ve created an identity around — including a career — when you lose that, you start to think, ‘Why do I feel so lost? Why do I feel like I have no hope?’”
In a recent Instagram video announcing the book, Smith said, “It’s a deeper journey, a deeper look, into my journey…I wish I would’ve read a book like this a long, long time ago.”
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Smith left his music career behind in 2023, preferring to focus on his role as a local minister.
“Being a musician was never a prison, but this is a new passion, a new focus, a new direction that I believe is going to allow me to focus more on individual people and their lives, which is ultimately why I started music touring in the very beginning,” he told PEOPLE at the time. “This is an even more micro-focused position in that. I’m not going anywhere.”
Poison In The Well: 11 Toxic Beliefs That Kept Me From The Living Water Of Jesus will be published Sept. 8.
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