Amy Grant makes ‘miraculous recovery’ after open heart surgery: ‘Prayer changes everything’
Six-time Grammy winner Amy Grant announced Sunday that’s she made a ‘miraculous recovery’ after undergoing open heart surgery on June 3 to correct a congenital condition.
The 59-year-old ‘Queen of Christian Pop’ showed her scars and thanked her fans, family, and friends for their prayers in a post to her 1.3M social media followers.
‘I want to say thank you to each person who said a prayer for me. Prayer changes everything,’ Grant wrote on Facebook.
‘Something supernatural pushed me through it’: Six-time Grammy winner Amy Grant announced Sunday she’s made a ‘miraculous recovery’ after undergoing open heart surgery on June 3 to correct a congenital condition
‘People I worked with decades ago, people who have come to my concerts or listen to my music, my work family, people on social media, and my own friends and family all offered their prayers.’
It was Nashville cardiologist John Bright Cage who discovered Amy suffered from partial anomalous pulmonary venous return (PAPVR) during a heart check-up in February.
‘The only way I can explain my experience would be to ask you to imagine a non-runner who was signed up for a marathon. I didn’t want it, but I had to have it anyway,’ the Every Heartbeat hitmaker continued.
Close call: The 59-year-old ‘Queen of Christian Pop’ showed her scars and thanked her fans, family, and friends for their prayers in a post to her 1.3M social media followers
PAPVR: It was Nashville cardiologist John Bright Cage who discovered Amy suffered from partial anomalous pulmonary venous return during a heart check-up in February
Grant wrote on Facebook: ‘I know there is so much going on in the world right now. This is a crazy, broken, yet beautiful time…Let’s keep those prayers going for our country and lets turn all the brokenness into love and seeing each other’
‘I felt like I got into that runners block and as soon as it was time for the race to start there was this massive West Texas wind at my back… just pushing me through. Even stuff I was really scared about felt like nothing more than just a deep breath and something supernatural pushed me through it.’
Grant added: ‘I know there is so much going on in the world right now. This is a crazy, broken, yet beautiful time…Let’s keep those prayers going for our country and lets turn all the brokenness into love and seeing each other.’
On March 10, Amy celebrated her 20th wedding anniversary with her second husband – country crooner Vince Gill – with whom she has a 19-year-old daughter Corrina.
’20 Years’: On March 10, the Every Heartbeat hitmaker celebrated her 20th wedding anniversary with her second husband – country crooner Vince Gill (R) – with whom she has a 19-year-old daughter Corrina (pictured August 19)
Baby Baby: Amy also has three children – Matthew, 33; Millie, 31; and Sarah, 28 – from her 17-year marriage to musician Gary Chapman, which ended in 1999 (pictured June 19)
The Say It with a Kiss songstress also has three children – Matthew, 33; Millie, 31; and Sarah, 28 – from her 17-year marriage to musician Gary Chapman, which ended in 1999.
Grant is next scheduled to perform a sold-out, three-night Tennessee Weekend series of concerts happening October 2-4 at The Factory at Franklin’s Jamison Hall.
The Georgia-born mother-of-four hasn’t released a new album since her holiday record Tennessee Christmas back in 2016.
Say It with a Kiss: Grant is next scheduled to perform a sold-out, three-night Tennessee Weekend series of concerts happening October 2-4 at The Factory at Franklin’s Jamison Hall (pictured June 24)