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Grammy-nominated Joey Feek ready to go 'home'

Joey Feek is ready to go “home.” Not the farm she shares with her husband and daughter south of Nashville – but the one with her father in Heaven.

Joey Feek is ready to go “home.” Not the farm she shares with her husband and daughter south of Nashville – but the one with her father in Heaven.

Feek’s husband Rory Feek wrote in his blog thislifeilive.com over the weekend that her pain has continued to increase daily and her morphine dosage has quadrupled in the last four days to keep her comfortable.

“Yesterday with tears in her eyes and mine, Joey held my hand and told me that she has been having serious talks with Jesus,” Rory Feek wrote. “She said she told him that if He’s ready to take her… she’s ready to come home.”

Joey Feek, who ended her cancer treatment in the fall, had set a goal of living through the week of Feb. 14. The couple, known as country duo Joey+Rory, are nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance of “If I Needed You” and the Grammy Awards are Feb. 15. In addition, their daughter Indiana’s second birthday is that week and their new album “Hymns That Are Important To Us” will be available in Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores that week, too.

The couple added their song “When I’m Gone,” a ballad that Joey Feek sang to her husband in 2012 on their “His and Hers” album, to their hymns project. While she wasn’t sick yet when she initially recorded it, the song is from the perspective of someone who is dying comforting the one they will leave behind.

Lyrics include:

 A bright sunrise will contradict the heavy fault that weighs you down/In spite of all the funeral songs/The birds will make their joyful sounds/You wonder why the earth still moves/You wonder how you’ll carry on/But you'll be okay on that first day when I'm gone.

“Our ‘make-believe’ song and video seems to be coming true,” Rory Feek wrote. “Some call it life imitating art. I don’t. I call it God. He knew I would need her to tell me goodbye… not just once, but a thousand times.  And I’d need to know that no matter how much time passes, that she loves me still.”

Follow Cindy Watts on Twitter @cindynwatts

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