Kierra Sheard – Loving Every Minute

CCM: Despite all of the creative ventures, is it safe to say that music is your first love, or do you actually enjoy other opportunities as much or more?
KS: Besides the Lord, my first loves are my parents and my brother. I am obsessed with them. Music is everything to me, but my parents are how I first learned love. My brother was my first friend. My parents were my first and biggest inspirations, and they still are. They introduced me to God and showed me that it’s possible to be imperfect but integrally loving people.

I went to see a therapist some time ago and they said that I have an unhealthy attachment to my parents. I find that hilarious. So, I guess I could say that my first love is…love. To love is a part of my purpose. I love loving and it is what keeps me fulfilling my purpose, because the love that I am always so ready to give causes me think about the people I’ve never met. This love causes me to always think about what is next. My first love causes me to want to have a plan to give them encouragement through song, or clothes that will help them to be more confident.

CCM: What about a significant other for you?
KS: I will admit, sometimes the journey can be lonely when it’s time to close my computer and not send another email. I am like, “Where is my lifetime partner?” Sometimes you just want someone to pour back into you besides your parents, family, or your close friends. But I am good. God is definitely holding me up and I’m whole without a “him.”

CCM: After seven albums, what is now speaking to you musically versus when you were first starting out?
KS: One truth is that the mountain is not the only thing that God can bring you over. It seemed like so many songs were about “getting through.” I have been in the studio and I have been having blast writing about the joy and freedom that comes with this relationship with the Father. That joy, freedom, truth, and real understanding of who He is causes me to want to do right by Him.

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