Wednesday August 6, 2008
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Grammy-winning Christian music star Steven Curtis Chapman says the tragic death of his 5-year-old daughter Maria Sue made him question his faith.
"My son said the other day, we are a family of great faith, but we're a family with a lot of questions," he said in an interview on ABC's Good Morning America on Thursday.
"But that's what faith is — it's living with the questions," Chapman added. "It doesn't mean you have the answers."
The Chapman family's life shattered in May when Maria was accidentally hit by her 17-year-old brother while he was backing his SUV out of the driveway. She later died at a Nashville hospital.
Grieving for their child, and trying to raise their other children, has "probably been one of the greatest challenges about walking through this," Chapman said. (Chapman, 45, and his wife Mary Beth adopted three daughters from China; they also have three biological children.)
"It's one of the things we prayed most for in terms of needing strength and wisdom as parents," he said.
"What has kept us breathing, kept us alive, is that while we are grieving this process, there is a hope that we have that we're anchored to in the midst of just what sometimes seems unbearable."
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