Our story is complicated and simple all at the same time. It's complicated because it takes all these twists and turns like a great movie does.

It starts in one place and it just takes you on a ride.

And wherever you join our story, I think at least I hope that you'll see a part of yourself in your life, your marriage or your relationships or your faith or your struggles.

Welcome to the Experience Jesus Calling podcast. Today we catch up by phone with songwriter, filmmaker, blogger, and author Rory Fique, husband to Joey Fique and father to three daughters.

Joey and Rory are a Grammy-nominated country music duo whose music weaves

beautiful stories that are important to them. Life drastically changed for

the couple when Joey was diagnosed with cancer, but they continued to pour into each other, their family

and the world by sharing their joys and struggles during this time.

Rory gives us a glimpse into his background and what led up to the greatest love story he would ever

experience. I'm from Atchison, Kansas, so I was born there and then I lived for a

little while in Highland, Kansas.

But I actually grew up kind of all around the country.

My parents were divorced, so we just really spent most of our time

surviving and living in different towns all around the country and my mom trying to make a living.

I grew up listening to country music. That's what my father played and what he listened to and so that's what I

listen to. And that's really how I discovered music and why I love storytelling in general. Country music is about stories and so I grew up listening to a

million of those stories from artists that he grew up with that he would share

songs with me or artist on the radio like Merle

Haggard and Don Williams and folks like that that were singing songs and

telling stories and they were all masters at it. It wasn't until years and years

later that I realized that a lot of time behind the scenes there were actual songwriters writing and crafting those songs. It wasn't the artist. I didn't learn that until I was in my 30s. And then once I did and I realized that that's actually what I want to do.

My father played guitar and sang all of my life and he was he was a really wonderful singer and dreamed of coming to Nashville and playing

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