Casting Crowns - Behind The Song "Just Another Birthday"

[SakuraMasuru]

@lovelessIvy God works in such wondrous ways! May He bless you always! And happy birthday to your son!

[SakuraMasuru]

@ mckenziesmommy214 God is indeed truly amazing! May He bless you always!

[mckenziesmommy214]

This song is my life. My parents divorced when I was young and my dad and I's relationship dwindled off to where I only got to see him once a year. I got pregnant at 19 and was struggling whether or not to keep the baby. My little girls father left me when I was 3 months pregnant. I realized with God's help that I could do it. She has helped me so much in my relationship with God. Today my daughter is 3 and I'm 23 and God bought into our life a Godly man that is her daddy now.

[lovelesslvy]

Im so glad I heard this song!!! My dad was emotionally absent my whole life and when I was 19 I was pregnant, I asked the lord to come into my life when I visited a Pregnancy center. My sons daddy isnt around, but that is fine with me because the ultimate father has been helping me through the past few years. and my 22nd birthday is in 2 days. I needed to hear this song!!! thank you! it really isnt just another birthday, I mean something to someone!!!

[Jerry121323]

my dad left on my 8th birthday and all my life i have gone tho so much and sometimes i wonder why Jesus helps us and give's us so much love and so many people don't care about him and i was one when my dad left i did not want eny thing with him however now i know that he is everything u can ask for thank u Jesus for putting me tho that to get stronger !!!!!!

[GodsGirl530]

This song is hard for me because, even though my dad didn't chose to leave me. He is now dead and has been for over 8 years. He passed away when I was 5 and on my most recent birthday, my 13th, I think was the hardest for me so far. Just knowing that I am now a teenager and I have so many more birthdays to go without being able to talk to him or see him again pains me.

[TheDoropsDragonfly]

@GodsGirl530 I'm so truly sorry to hear; though do know Christ and our eternal Father loves us. And I do strongly believe that your dad was looking down on you, on your 13th birthday. Smiling. Know that you're never alone, and that Christ is with you forever and always.

[Chapmansrus6]

What about dads who desperately WANT to be a part of their daughters lives? Who are being pushed out? What about the kids who are being told by the other parent that daddy has abandoned them but the reality is that every effort by daddy is being pushed away by the other parent? What if every letter, every phone call EVERY attempt to show up for wkends, birthdays, school events, etc, was thwarted by the other parent & all the child saw was "abandonment"? To daddy, it's "just another birthday" too

[Blondelette7]

This song is my life, my dad can't be in my life since I was 11 and its hard on birthdays and holidays thats how I would feel. When I was 19 I got pregnant and of course it didn't end well. I have a little girl now and her father has replace us. But my daughter has made my life worth living. Now I have a step dad and my grandfather who are both like fathers to me and married my best friend from high school. He's loves my daughter as his own its truly wonderful what God can to.

[kiplingbiggs]

This is an awesome song! I had my first child when I was 20 years old. Praise God that her daddy is a great man!! We have been married ever since and now we have another little girl. We are so blessed. This song should inspire all the fathers to make their daughters feel loved... bc they will go out and try and find it elsewhere.

[homesick742]

An amazing song...I'm another one who feels it was writting just for me. 

[AnthemLights12]

My dad is a truck driver and he will be out on the road for up to 4 months at a time. It really feels like he isn't in my life. I may only be 15 but I need my dad in my life to guide me so I do the right thing, but instead it is really Jesus and God are my dad's in my life and are teaching me what to do. My dad has missed so much that it is just really hard to deal with it all. When I heard this song I felt like I was about to start to cry.

[dogloverz29]

@AnthemLights12 I definetly know how you feel. My dad works nights at a hospital and everyday I only see him like 15 minutes everyday. So, I know how you feel. At youth group once I cried so hard because of my dad's work schedule.

[randimwilliams]

I bawled my eyes out the first time I heard this song... I was driving with my daughters and choked out "this song is about me" when it was over.... I sent it to my best friend and she said "it's like this song was written for you. wow" :'(

I love it... My daughter wants me to sing it for my voice recital in the spring while she accompanies me on piano. love all their music! Hope to see them in the Spring in Tulsa, OK! :)

[Txdon09]

i love this song, cd, i admire Casting Crowns. Ever since 2005 when i heard them sing and then when i got the live from Atlanta ccd/dvd and I heard Mark give his testimony that was it for me. I can honestly say that this is the best cd yet. I've seen them preform live in Austin,Tx and let me tell you as good as they are on cd they are even better live. If you haven't been blessed to see them yet you should, because it's something you'll never forget. I have an 11 yr old daughter also.

[christyloo]

Thanks so much for a song like this. I experienced this same situation in my life. Dad moved out when I was 15. By 17 I was pregnant, 18 I had my little girl. Between age 15 and 17 were pretty wild years and I remember saying when she was born that I believed God sent her to me to save me. If someone is in this situation it can work out if you trust the Lord, but most importantly if you allow God into your heart, he will replace your 'missing' worldly father and he will save you too!

[linsandlondy]

Thank you very much for this song, I feel like it was written for me and my family. I am turning 21 in five days, my little girl is 4 and has started asking questions about where her dad is. It's one of the hardest things in the world to hear and to try to comfort her through. It wasn't until I heard this song, thanks to my own mother, that I realized she has had a dad all along. I see her spirits pick up when we talk about her heavenly father never ever leaving and always loving her. Thank you

[castingcrownsfan500]

Where's the "LOVE <3" button on YouTube?!?!?!? It'd only be for you guys, though, hahahaha. :) <3

[castingcrownsfan500]

Ever

[castingcrownsfan500]

MARK HALL IS THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ceramamama]

Thank you soooooooo much, Mark......know too many that missed out on this...Love ya man!

[katelynfrye7]

I heard this song a while back on K-Love I think, and when I heard it, I thought. . . "That's totally me." And then the tears came, because it was so right on. As difficult as life is without an earthly father around, I began to really believe that I have a Heavenly Father who will never leave me nor forsake me and loves me outrageously. The "rest" of my story is on katelynfrye dot blogspot dot com

[audreyrochelle]

This song has truly touched me it is so my life. I was that girl at 16 and 19 and I know if I wouldn’t have found a loving church and church family I would have been the girl at 21. I have a pastor that stepped in when I was 20 and filled the father roll in my life and I am so thankful for that. Thank you casting crowns!! You have been there since I was 15 with “can anybody hear her” ministering to my life and thank you for that

[dogloverz29]

i do volleyball and my dad isn't home when I get home. :( i leave a half hour before he gets home from work. i know what it's like to not have a dad around too. it's terrible.

[grandmammamarina]

saw Courageous last night...fantastic! I know all about not having a dad. It affected my life to this day and I'm 51

[grandmammamarina]

saw Courageous last night...fantastic! I know all about not having a dadIt affected my life to this day and I'm 51

[castingcrownsfan500]

Just had a Brandon Heath concert! AMAZING!! Britt Nicole too!! We met them both...again!!

[kj3416]

Wow. That was touching. Great song...as usual!

[castingcrownsfan500]

@samaritanrevival, it's great!! Do you have any prayer requests? And who is your favorite singer or band??

[castingcrownsfan500]

No lie, I cried. I feel like I'm not beautiful all the time. Mark, when you told me this year at the Dove awards, that I looked nice, I almost cried. To hear that from the best singer ever if amazing!! I love you so much!! You're great.

[samaritanrevival]

This is wonderful

[TheStarlight1313]

Great song! Loved it when CC played it in Roseville on September 19th. Awesomeness!!!!

[FlyinHyy]

<3

[Shoots1978]

May I give some advice on that based on Romans 5? In verse six, Paul say's why were weak, or whatever the version reads, we were weak, sinners loving our sins, (and self) more than Him, rebelling against Him, and become filthy to Him and He stepped in anway's, not for oursake, but for His sake so He can be glorified for all eternity for His goodness, for what He has done through Jesus.