Matthew West’s Daughter Says God ‘Makes the Scary Become Beautiful’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Matthew West’s daughter Lulu says that “scary things become beautiful” when you put them in God’s hands.
“I waited very last minute to pick which college I was going to,” she said during an appearance on “The Matthew West Podcast,” explaining that she was torn between choosing a smaller school or a larger university.
“Yes, it’s scary, but when you place the decision in the Lord’s hands, He makes the scary become beautiful because you’re only able to see the opportunities to tell others about the Lord,” Lulu explained. “That’s the great commission, you know?”
She eventually chose to attend the University of Tennessee.
“The opportunities to get to tell people about Jesus are crazy,” Lulu said. “There’s going to be other people on my hall who have never experienced the love and joy of being in the arms of your Savior, and I get to tell them about that. That’s kind of where my heart has been — pressing into the scariness of that and reminding myself that this is the great commission.”
Lulu concluded, “The scary things become beautiful when you’re able to lay it at His feet.”
West has been sharing details about Lulu’s recent graduation on social media and through his new song, “18 Summers.”
“I had heard that when you think about the time you get with your kids and you put it in that finite focus of summers instead of years, you feel the weight of it even more,” West told PEOPLE of the song’s inspiration. “It hurt my heart to think of it that way. And now here we are on the 18th summer, and it really did go as fast as people warned me it would.”
West wrote in an Instagram post announcing the song, “This next chapter is a big one. I’ve been thinking about years in terms of summers with my kids and how it feels so finite… What I would give to have 18 more summers with Lulu before she goes off to college this fall.”
Movieguide® previously reported on “18 Summers”:
“I talk a lot about the power of story, but this song is literally written in real-time in the exact chapter of the story that our family is in right now,” West told Woman’s World. “It’s graduation time. My oldest daughter is getting ready to graduate from high school, and my wife and I are both just in our feelings about that.”
“We’re dealing with all the heart feelings and emotions of, like, ‘Wow! How fast did it go? This is unbelievable.’ We just had her graduation party last night. We’re cleaning up after the party today—I can’t believe how fast it’s gone.”
“18 Summers” isn’t written like a traditional prayer, but West still thinks of it like he’s talking to God.
“It’s like a prayer for family,” he said about the song. “Don’t stop praying for your family. Don’t stop praying for your kids.”
“It’s more written in a form of just that aching feeling you get as time flies by before your eyes, and you wish you could get it back. It’s about making most of the time you get with them,” he said.
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