It’s hard to believe that it’s been a month since the country music family lost beautiful Joey Martin Feek.
At last night’s ACM Awards, Darius Rucker and Martina McBride lead the audience at the MGM Grand in a standing ovation to honor the country music songbird and one-half of the popular duo Joey+Rory.
This morning, Rory has shared his thoughts and feelings on how he and baby girl Indiana are doing since the passing of their wife and mother, respectively.
In his blog he writes:
“A lot of people ask me how I’m doing. I usually try to smile and say, ‘I’m doing okay.’ And I am . . . okay.
I feel so many emotions all at the same time. Blessed. Lost. Proud. Scared. Encouraged. Tired. Thankful. I have a lot of good people around me to pour love all over Indy and I. It’s hard to be in this old house without Joey, but I know she wants us here. And I know it’s where we need to be. I moved our bed to a different part of the room, against a different wall…because I needed it to be different. I sleep on her side of the bed now. I can’t sleep on mine. And when people come to dinner and they sit in Joey’s chair. I want to tell them not to sit there, but I don’t. But I want to.
I miss my wife . . . I miss my best friend. I miss her voice and her laugh and her eyes and her smile. It’s still hard for me to imagine that she’s not here, and she’s not ever coming back. But I know that time will make it easier. Because that’s what time does. It heals what is broken. There will still be scars, but I know there will come a day when I won’t miss her this much, when I won’t wonder where she is . . . and what she is doing right now in heaven.”
Rory continues by drawing a parallel between his life with Joey to the characters of Forrest and Jenny in the movie Forrest Gump, from Jenny and Joey’s illnesses to their eventual resting places under trees on the family’s property. Even before Joey’s passing, the movie meant a lot to Rory and the couple had napkins for their wedding embossed with their names on one side and “Forrest and Jenny” on the other.
As Forrest said, “I don’t remember being born. I don’t recall what I got for my first Christmas and I don’t know when I went on my first outdoor picnic. But I do remember the first time I heard the sweetest voice in the world.”
We do, too, Rory.
Our thoughts and prayers remain with the family.
– NASH Country Weekly
