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Seph Schlueter on Counting His Blessings, Losing a Baby, and Trusting God Through it All

Crosswalk Headlines Contributor
Updated Jul 18, 2025

For Christian artist Seph Schlueter, songs about praising God through pain took on deeper significance last August when he and his wife walked through their own tragedy. The Counting My Blessings and Running Back to You singer was touring and preparing for a new album release when they learned during a 20-week ultrasound that their unborn baby girl -- named Charlotte Davy Schlueter -- no longer had a heartbeat. That month, he wrote on social media, was the "hardest of our lives." Schlueter knew she had joined "a great cloud of witnesses in Heaven, singing praise to the King who sits on the throne" -- as he wrote -- but that biblical truth did not eliminate his and his wife's pain. 

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