By Mallory Mattingly
Christian artist Anya Lee just released some new music, and much of it is inspired by a near-death experience.
In 2019, Lee was found on the Appalachian Trail by some fellow hikers.
“They found me slumped over. I was turning gray. So they revived me, put me in their car,” the singer told Church Leaders.
“I was gone again and they revived me again. They get me to a clinic and urgent care immediately transports me to the hospital,” Lee continued. “I was diagnosed with dehydration, hypothermia, and a severe case of rhabdomyolysis.”
As Lee came back to life in the hospital, she had a revelation that she needed to be obedient to God.
She described “the feeling that I have had in this deep pit in my being that I didn’t do what I was supposed to before this situation.”
“I was settling for, ‘Well, let me sing worship at church and let me be involved in the winter cantatas and stuff, and that’ll be enough.’ I had been wasteful and there was this thing has been gnawing at me ever since I woke up that told me I had made a mistake,” she revealed.
“It will not happen again,” Lee continued. “And now it’s go time. And the only times that feeling tends to quell just a bit is if I’m writing music, if I’m recording music, if I’m studying my music. If I’m in it, that hunger dies down just a bit.”
“But I can always tell it’s been too long when I’m sitting on the couch and I’m restless because it’s been a couple days since I’ve done what I was supposed to be doing,” she added. “So it’s wild and wonderful.”
Anya’s latest single is “God Made It,” a track that encourages every listener that no matter what, God is always in control.
“One of the things that I’d been struggling with a lot was some of these bad days,” she explained. “Some of these horrible, rock bottom scenarios and situations that I’d been dealing with and just trying to make myself have a good day.”
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“We say that, you know, fake it till you make it — that’s not right. It’s not godly,” she added. “I wanted to change the perspective [to] if we realize that every day we have is a good day because God made it, then something good is going to come out of it.”
Lee’s new EP, “Flatline,” just released this past weekend.
“We all have flatline experiences (death of a marriage, death of a career, or even literal death) that the Lord sees, knows, and wants to care for us through. Many deaths result in flourishing and abundant life on the other side and He knows that — we just have to trust Him and keep putting one foot in front of the other (whether we can see the path clearly or not) and say yes, even when we have to whisper it with shaky breath,” she wrote in a post on social media explaining the meaning of the EP.
Through her new EP, Lee wants her listeners to know that no matter how dead something may be — a relationship, a job, your finances or anything else — God can restore it all. He is always in control and on the throne.
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