HOME TOWN’s Erin Napier: I Miss Our Church Feeling Alive and Busy
By Jessilyn Lancaster, Managing Editor
Erin Napier of HGTV’s HOME TOWN penned a heartfelt reflection of her grief during 2020 and highlighted how much she missed many of her faith-filled activities.
“I miss our church feeling alive and busy and the safety of Sunday school classrooms,” Napier posted to Instagram. “It all felt temporary for so many months, but it’s beginning to feel like part of me now, this thing I’m carrying that’s too heavy. I just miss the normal and am feeling the grief in it lately.”
Napier posted her reflection to Instagram in the days following the election when much of the nation felt the shockwaves of a very close race.
The renovation star wrote that she often finds herself daydreaming of 2019 and “all that we took for granted. I wish I could go back and spend one normal day hugging my friends and crew without thinking twice.”
She continued: “I wish Helen could play in a park and make new friends and lick the leftover Halloween Dum Dum stickiness from her fingers without the constant low grade worry about the last time she washed her hands. I wish my grandmother was still here. I wish I never worried when the people I love had a sniffle or sneeze, especially our parents and aunts and uncles.”
Napier has been open about her faith on social media this year. In June, a fan claimed the TV show host wasn’t supportive of Black lives when Napier didn’t post a black square on her social media profile.
Napier responded in kindness and said she combatted racism through studying the teachings of Jesus and living them out in her daily life.
Napier is married to Ben, and the couple are parents to toddler Helen. The couple hosts HOME TOWN, a renovation show on HGTV based in Laurel, Mississippi. The show is in the middle of shooting Season 5.
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