Christian country singer Rory Feek sorely misses his wife Joey, who passed away last month after a lengthy battle with cervical cancer.
"I miss her voice and her laugh and her eyes and her smile. It's still hard for me to imagine that she's not here, and she's not ever coming back. But I know that time will make it easier. Because that's what time does. It heals what is broken," Rory writes on his blog. "There will still be scars, but I know there will come a day when I won't miss her this much, when I won't wonder where she is... and what she is doing right now in heaven."
During this difficult time, Rory has turned to his favourite movie "Forrest Gump," which stars Tom Hanks in the title role. "I am a big fan of the movie 'Forrest Gump.' Everyone who knows me knows that. People laugh when I say that Forrest is one of my biggest influences. But honestly he is. Joey knew it, too. For our wedding, we had 'Forrest & Jenny' printed on the back of our napkins at the reception," he says.
Rory says he finds himself connecting to the movie even more so now since Forrest was also a widower. Like Forrest, Rory loved his wife simply yet deeply.
"I make the walk out to the cemetery behind the house every day and stand over the loose dirt and I talk to her—like Forrest Gump talked to Jenny under the big tree that they played in as children," shares Rory.
All his life, Rory wanted to find someone to love just as much as Forrest loved Jenny. And he considers himself blessed since he was able to experience that kind of love with Joey.
Jenny's death broke Forrest's heart, but he was able to move on because he had a son to care about. Rory has their daughter Indiana to think about, too, and he knows he'll turn out fine just like Forrest.
"But I believe that Forrest was okay. And though his love for Jenny never faded, the pain of losing her lessened," he says. "In time. All in God's time."
