Amber Smith: Beauty from the Ashes of Grief: Page 255
The Unfolding
Northwestern Media
4.9 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
When country artist Granger Smith and his wife, Amber Smith, lost their three-year-old son, River, their world shattered. In her darkest moments, Amber found herself on the bathroom floor, crying out to God, desperate for hope. That heartbreak became the beginning of redemption. Now the author of "The Girl on the Bathroom Floor" and host of the Arise with Amber podcast, Amber shares how God met her in unimaginable pain, how He brought beauty from ashes, and how she learned to live with both grief and joy. This episode of The Unfolding is a story of faith, healing, and the hope that only God can bring when life falls apart.
Show Notes:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSmithsTV
Amber's Website: https://arisewithamber.com/
Granger's episode on The Unfolding: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/page-185-granger-smith-country-music-star-finds-faith/id1460841077?i=1000720200985
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| 0:00.0 | Page 255 of the unfolding is the story of Amber Smith. |
| 0:05.4 | I said, I have to be alone. I have to be alone. And I went up in his room and I guttarily cried like I have never cried in my life. |
| 0:12.3 | I held his blanket and I just screamed out to God. Not in anger, but just screaming that I just wanted my son. |
| 0:19.7 | God's story has been unfolding. |
| 0:22.9 | Since the beginning of time. |
| 0:26.1 | He invites you to be a part of it. |
| 0:31.5 | Another page in the unfolding. |
| 0:35.3 | Hey, this is Meredith Foster. |
| 0:37.8 | Sometimes life gets split wide open by loss. |
| 0:42.2 | For Amber Smith and her husband, country music artist Granger Smith, that loss came in |
| 0:47.1 | 2019 when their three-year-old son River drowned. |
| 0:51.1 | It was the kind of tragedy that changes everything. Amber will tell you, she didn't really |
| 0:56.8 | know God before that day, but in the midst of grief, she discovered his love and that you can |
| 1:02.6 | trust him even when you've walked through tragedy. Amber calls herself the girl on the bathroom floor |
| 1:08.9 | because that's where she wept where grief and questions |
| 1:12.2 | felt overwhelming. But it was also the place where God met her, where the breaking began to give way |
| 1:18.8 | to healing. So I, if I go back to childhood, I wasn't raised in a Christian home. We would go to |
| 1:25.6 | church every now and then Christmas, Easter, those types of things. But it was never something that we brought home with us. |
| 1:31.2 | I don't remember ever praying together as a family. And that's not to say anything negative |
| 1:36.4 | about my parents. I think it kind of trickles down to how you were raised. And so I went to church |
| 1:42.1 | camp with my friends, but I think I only went because my friends were going. |
| 1:45.7 | I said the sinner quote the sinner's prayer when I was 14, but I had no life of a saving faith in Christ. |
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