Joey Feek cries for daughter, smiles at 'last' snow
When Joey Martin Feek caught a glimpse of snow out her bedroom window in Indiana Monday morning, it was the salve her broken heart needed to heal in that moment.
Feek's husband Rory Feek had just shared a message from one of their neighbors — the neighbor's special needs daughter was learning to ride horses at the Center for Courageous Kids in Kentucky. The man sent a photo of his daughter on horseback with a note that said: “Scout can’t wait until (Feek's daughter) Indiana joins her at camp."
When Joey Martin Feek saw it, her husband said "suddenly her hands started shaking and she closed her eyes and started sobbing."
Joey Martin Feek of country duo Joey+Rory was diagnosed with terminal cancer this fall. She returned to her mother's farm to spend her last days, and as he has for the past couple of years, Rory Feek is documenting her journey on his blog, www.thislifeilive.com. On Monday he shared the story. Their daughter, Indiana, has Down syndrome and will be 2 years old in February.
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"I wasn’t sure what had happened — what the pain was that she was feeling — so I tried to put my arms around her and asked, 'what’s wrong,' " he wrote. "Then through her tears, she said the words….
'I want to raise our baby ... I want to be the one to teach her.'"
Rory Feek wrote that his wife was "inconsolable." But when she saw snow, she started to smile.
“I didn’t think I’d get to see snow again,” he quoted her as saying. "And she looked at me, then raised her eyes up at sky and said 'if this is the last snow I ever see, thank you Jesus… thank you.'"
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Rory Feek also used the blog post to reveals plans for a hymns album — one that Joey Martin Feek always wanted to make. He said it will be released on Valentine's Day. The couple recorded it in Nashville in early summer, and then finished it whenever and wherever they could when she resumed cancer treatment.
"I think Joey wants to capture the words and music of her childhood," Rory Feek wrote. "The music that she goes to when she needs comfort. The music that makes this beautiful, tragic, crazy life somehow make sense."
RFD-TV will run a marathon of "The Joey+Rory Show" from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday.
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