Two years after releasing one of the most difficult albums of his distinguished career, TobyMac has dropped his ninth solo studio album, “Heaven on My Mind.”
The multi-Grammy and 20-time Dove Award-winning artist, whose real name is Toby McKeehan, described “Heaven on My Mind” as a “journey of going from total ashes to crawling to walking to standing up. It was me figuring out how to relate to God again, leading to all these questions, and ultimately something beautiful.”
“I have a deeper relationship with God than I’ve ever had, because I walked through the valley with Him, and I decided I trusted Him,” TobyMac said.
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The McKeehan family tragically lost their 21-year-old son, Truett, to an accidental drug overdose on Oct. 23, 2019.
The DC Talk alum has been open about the loss of his son. During an interview with Joy FM in 2023, TobyMac said that he never knew what grief was before Truett’s death. “I just felt like everything was beautiful and perfect until the last few years,” he said. “And then when we lost Truett and everything changed…I met grief in the fiercest way.”
“God doesn’t promise us He will take away the cold. He promises He will be right there in it with us,” TobyMac shared. “That’s what I held on to, and I found Him there, or He found me there.”
During a 2023 tour stop in Dayton, Ohio, TobyMac told the crowd his son’s death brought his Bible reading to a complete stop for a couple of weeks.
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“I didn’t have the heart,” McKeehan said.
Being real with his struggles, TobyMac explained that he told God, “I’m going to give you a chance.” He then joked, “Imagine telling the God of all creation, ‘I’m gonna give you a chance.’”
“See, to have a relationship with anyone, you gotta be talking to them, and they gotta be talking to you. You gotta be listening to them, and they gotta be listening to you,” McKeehan said. “The way God talks to us is through his Word. And the way we talk to him is through prayer. So the way I see it, if I ain’t talking to God, he’s not talking to me. Do I really have a relationship with him at all?”
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