Page 269 of the unfolding is the story of Bart Millard.

Literally feel like I was hanging by a thread.

Like even the stuff as simple as God is good all time, all time God is good,

is like saying these things.

You know, I didn't believe that.

That's what would get the biggest amen if I sat in front of a crowd.

So if I did the right things on the outside, no one would interfere with the inside.

God's story has been unfolding.

Since the beginning of time. He invites you to be a part of it.

Another page in the unfolding.

Hey, this is Meredith Foster.

If you know the music of Mercy Me, then you know the voice of Bart Millard.

He is the songwriter behind, I Can Only Imagine.

It's a song Bart wrote after watching his abusive father transform from a monster into a man that loved Jesus.

It's the best-selling Christian single of all time, more than 5 million copies sold.

With that kind of success, you might imagine Bart was living the mountaintop life beyond anything he'd ever dreamed. But in 2004, the year that I can only imagine crossed over

to mainstream radio and became a global smash, Bart and his wife Shannon were being gutted

by one life-altering struggle after another. Their son Sam was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes,

a lifelong illness that would reshape their family overnight.

And that diagnosis came alongside multiple family losses and medical crises, and it all seemed to hit

at once. While Mercy Me's career was soaring, art was unraveling, slipping into depression,

hiding behind touring, and struggling to hold it all together.

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