In today's unsettling times, it's good to know that Jesus is walking with us in the present

and that there's hope for our future.

Jesus today is a devotional from Sarah Young that will inspire and encourage you with assurances from scripture that God is still

in control. You can get Jesus today at Jesus Calling.com or your favorite bookseller.

Welcome to the Jesus Calling podcast for a special Memorial Day episode

featuring country music singer and army veteran Craig Morgan and a rebroadcast on our interview with the First Lady of Louisiana, Donna Edwards. When he was growing up, Craig Morgan would never have guessed that one day he would be a member of the Grand Old Opry.

He felt a calling to join the Army, where he served for nearly two decades.

But during his travels in the Army, Craig began to miss the home he left behind

and began to write songs that captured the place and people he held dear,

and his career in country music was born. Craig's

star rose steadily held up by his faith and family. It was this foundation that

carried Craig after he learned his 19-year-old son Jerry had died in a boating accident.

In the days that followed, Craig turned to music again to capture the pain that he felt,

this time writing a song called The Father, My Son, and The Holy Ghost, which would touch

countless lives across the globe. I'm Craig Morgan. I'm a country singer, Grandalop

Remember, Father, Husband, entrepreneur, father, husband, entrepreneur, philanthropist.

I'm a country singer, my trade.

I'm the country singer who was born in Nashville, Tennessee. I grew up in and around this

business my whole life. My dad was a bass player, played on some old shows called the Ralph Emory show called

Pop Goes the Country, young country.

But the whole time all this was going on, I didn't have any aspirations of becoming a singer or songwriter anything.

And I think that was, attribute that to the fact that it was part of my life all the time because my dad did it.

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