Submitted by Nadine:
Kip Moore absolutely changed my life. In June of 2015 my dad suddenly passed away from a massive brain bleed; and that in itself changed my life. I was never going to be the person I was before that. I live in Miami and my family is in Minnesota, so I traveled home to say goodbye while my dad was still on life support, and 24 hours later he passed without us having to “unplug” the life support.
It was probably about a month after I got back to Miami and I just wasn’t myself; I felt lost and didn’t really know what to do with myself, everything just felt off. Music has always been such a factor in my life so I decided I would just turn on my iPad and hit “random”. Well I have over 40,000 songs in my library and the first song that came on was “Faith When I Fall”, and I’ve listened to that song many times prior, but on that day it was different; it was like he was speaking directly to my soul. I literally had the biggest “ah ha” moment of my life. At that moment I realized that I wasn’t happy where I was in my life. I realized that I had been in denial about my own happiness and my own truth. I admitted to myself that I wasn’t truly happy living in Miami. I have an amazing group of friends that have become family, and I have a job that I absolutely love, but my job was only reason I was still here.
I didn’t know where I wanted to go, did I want to go back home to Minneapolis, or did I want to go somewhere new. I could pretty much go anywhere since I don’t have a husband or any kids, it’s just me. It was a couple weeks and I woke up one day and said to myself “I want to move to Nashville”, I had never been there, but it just felt like the place to go. I have traveled there many times since and I have fallen in love with that city, and the people. I haven’t made the move yet because of employment, but I am always looking and I believe that things will work out the way they are supposed to, when they are supposed to.
I know in my heart that song came on for a reason, I needed a push to find my truth and to start my journey of change, and I thank Kip from the bottom of my heart for sharing his truth. I met him at a Meet & Greet a few months after that and I wrote him a letter telling him my story and I was able to look him in the eye and thank him for changing my life, because he truly has. He’s a pretty damn special person and I am honored to have met him and be able to show him my gratitude.