Tina Campbell, half of the contemporary gospel singing duo Mary Mary, recently spoke with Parle Magazine as she was promoting her new book "I Need a Day to Pray." During the interview, she explained that through all the difficulties in her life, she found more consolation and peace of mind through the Bible than she did through months of counseling.
"The book was like my personal journal to God," the Mary Mary singer confessed.
She continued to explain that her father getting sick with cancer and eventually passing away, her issues with her husband's infidelity, problems with their reality TV series "Mary Mary" and her sister Erica, and the problems that come with taking care of five kids gave her ample reasons to continue praying.
According to a report from EnStarz, the 41-year old singer recently sat down with her sister Erica and confessed that the two didn't always see things "eye-to-eye" and that this might spell the end of their show. Erica wants to focus primarily on her new solo career and this means time away from working as a duo.
Tina also recently revealed to the world that her husband cheated on her numerous times through the past few years. Instead of filing for a divorce, however, she decided to try and work things out.
She turned to counseling in order to prevent herself from breaking apart and to slowly rebuild her life from the bottom up. However, as she revealed in the recent interview, it was prayer and the Bible that kept her head afloat.
"It was the prayers that change my life; it was believing the prayers and practicing what it said that changed my life. I did counseling... but that doesn't necessarily take away the pain," Tina explained. "13 months of counseling, my counseling wasn't helping as much as reading that Bible was. Every time I would read the Bible it just felt like I was praying, it felt like I was protected from all of this craziness of life."
