Lauren Daigle Shares Powerful Testimony: ‘[God Is] the Restorer Of Broken Dreams’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Singer Lauren Daigle recently shared her testimony, from how God pushed her into music, to how she reconnected with her faith during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.
“As a child, God would show me these tours and visions and dreams,” Daigle said. “I could see crowds of people and I could see you buses and I could see charts and awards and all these things. I wasn’t even singing! I was, like, the closet singer that sang in her shower…nobody knew I could sing.”
Everything changed when her mother went to the worship leader at their church, told him that Daigle sang “all the time” and asked if she could join the choir.
“I auditioned,” Daigle remembered. “He said, ‘Sing this for me,’ and it was the song ‘Hosanna.’”
She sang it “really sheepish,” and the worship leader told her, “Lauren, I have heard you laugh before. You better sing that song.”
Daigle sang — “I just thought I was screaming at the top of my lungs” — and two weeks later, she was leading the choir.
“Every single decision that I’ve made in my career, I made focused on the dream,” she shared. “Focused on those visions that He showed me over and over and over and over again.”
All Daigle’s dreams were starting to come true, but 12 dates into a big tour, COVID-19 shut everything down.
“I remember feeling like, “God, what is this disappointment?’ It took me six months to literally get out of bed. I was so heartbroken because at 16, He showed something…and 12 years later, I was there to fulfill it…[and then] it all fell apart.”
Daigle continued, “I don’t know if there is anybody that has walked in with disappointment tonight, but I promise you, He can be the restorer of broken dreams.”
During her time off stage, Daigle often talked to God and reconnected with her faith and worship.
“He said, ‘You have forgotten the heart of worship. Just come back to your first love,’” Daigle explained. “And I am so grateful…because not only did He take away disappointment, but He allowed this stage to be an even more beautiful experience than it ever would have been because I actually remember worship now.”
Now that Daigle is back onstage, she’s also ready to start releasing music. She recently announced the second half of her self-titled album will be released in September.
“I hope you like it, and I hope it brings you the joy that it has brought me through the course of some hard times!” she wrote in an Instagram post.
She talked about the album’s creation in more detail in an interview with Relevant Magazine.
“During COVID, there was so much despair,” Daigle shared. “I started writing these songs because I needed these songs to pull me out of that. I needed God to come and breathe on this experience for me, to remind me of how life can begin again.”
Watch Daigle’s full testimony here:
