
Granger Smith’s wife Amber Smith took to Instagram this week with an emotional post explaining how it felt to be alone for the first time following the tragic drowning death of the couple’s 3-year-old son, River.
Since the toddler tragically passed away last month, Amber has openly grieved River‘s death.
In a recent post, she talked about spending time by herself for the first time since his passing to truly mourn.
She wrote:
We have had such overwhelming help since we lost River. People have been at our house non stop, checking on us, bringing us food, talking with us, praying with us, but for the first time in a month, I was alone for a couple days this past weekend.
The mom continued to explain:
Granger was on tour and the kids were with family. I decided I needed to just be alone. I needed to just feel all of the emotions. I allowed myself to let out everything I was feeling. I cried. cried. Guttural, animal cries for our son. I’m pretty sure I cried inside and outside every place there was on our property. I so needed it.
Granger and Amber have shared candid details about their heartbreaking experience and said the tragedy has forced them to cling to God even more during these difficult, painful days.
Amber said:
I talked to God, I talked to River, I read books on Hope and Joy and Grief and Love. I watched movies about Heaven. Cried some more. There is no right or wrong way to grieve, but the way Granger and I see it, we can run away from God at this time or we can run to Him.
She continued to express her brutally honest feelings and talked about holding on to her faith through the setbacks and hard memories.
“I won’t be ‘happy’ for a while, maybe ever, but I can still have joy in my heart. Joy for my family, my life, and God. And you can too.”
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