{"id":13836,"date":"2018-12-26T11:13:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T16:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=13836"},"modified":"2018-12-26T11:13:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T16:13:25","slug":"robin-thicke-shares-reconnection-to-god-after-fathers-death-and-girlfriends-miscarriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2018\/12\/robin-thicke-shares-reconnection-to-god-after-fathers-death-and-girlfriends-miscarriage.html","title":{"rendered":"Robin Thicke Shares ‘Reconnection to God’ After Father’s Death and Girlfriend’s Miscarriage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Known for his oversexualized lyrics and playboy image, the singer Robin Thicke is not typically the ideal star for Christian’s to look up to. However Thicke is changing his tune with his new single “Testify”.<\/p>\n

His father\u2019s abrupt passing and his girlfriend\u2019s miscarriage, which she made public earlier in 2018, were the inspiration for his new song.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, it\u2019s funny \u2014 my father passed away a couple of years ago and I thought I had an album and these songs that I wanted to put out. Then when that happened, it was something I wasn\u2019t expecting and it just rattled my soul,\u201d Thick told People in a recent interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I took some time to re-think the album and then these songs started pouring out that had more meaning and more weight to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The singer’s father, Alan Thicke, who was known for his role in the 1980s sitcom \u201cGrowing Pains,\u201d died of a heart attack in 2016. He was 69 years old.<\/p>\n

Then in August, Thicke\u2019s 24-year-old girlfriend, model April Love Geary, revealed she had a miscarriage before giving birth to the couple\u2019s daughter, Mia Love. The duo is now expecting their second child.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce you put it into song form, then it can live forever. And so the message in the song is really about the hope and the light at the end of that tunnel when you feel that you lost or you feel that you don\u2019t know what to do next.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Thicke\u2019s new song and comments about God are very broad, it shows that he is on the right path. Choosing to let his grief lead him back to the faith, as opposed to pushing him further away from it, is hard for many Christians to do.<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cYou know, that reconnection to God or spirituality or something deeper than the surface is what brings you back home to who you really are and who you want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n