Joey Feek Cancer Update: Rory Reflects On His Life With Joey, Prepares To Raise Their Daughter Alone
Joey Feek is nearing the end of her battle with terminal cancer, and her husband Rory is preparing for the day that he has to go home and care for their daughter alone.
In a new post on his blog This Life I Live, Rory reflected on his life with Joey and how they ended up where they are now. He recalled their life in 2008 when he was just a songwriter and Joey was just an aspiring singer. They weren’t well known, and Joey spent most of her time being a waitress at Marcy Jo’s Mealhouse, the small-town diner she and Rory’s sister Marcy opened down the road from their house. It wasn’t until one of the couple’s friends suggested they try out for CMT’s singing competition Can You Duet that they really got their big break.
“When we found out we had made it through the first round of auditions, they asked us what our stage name was going to be. I told Joey that I think we should tell them ‘Joey+Rory’, because that’s what it actually was… You + Me = whatever this is going to be,” Rory wrote in the post titled “the power of the plus sign.”
![Joey Feek Rory and Indiana](http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Joey-Feek-and-family-Rory-and-Indy-670x388.jpg)
[Photo via This Life I Live]
Now, eight years later, Rory is sitting at their home in Joey’s hometown of Alexandria, Indiana, remembering that time of their life together. Rory wrote, “Now all these years later, as I sit here with my laptop at the dining room table and my beautiful wife sleeping peacefully in the next room… I find myself looking back at that moment.”
![Joey Feek plays with her daughter Indiana](http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Joey-Feek-And-Indiana.jpg)
[Image via Facebook/Joey and Rory]
Although Rory knows it was God who brought them together, and God who made their career possible, he can’t help questioning why he would take Joey away from him.
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[Photo via This Life I Live]
![Joey Feek with daughter Indiana](http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Joey-Feek-Indiana-Feek-670x670.jpg)
[Photo via Facebook/Joey and Rory]
“I cannot even begin to imagine going home to Tennessee without Joey, or living my life and raising Indy without her… but chances are, that day is coming,” Rory admitted. “Joey and I both have questions. Lots of them. Hard questions that we don’t have any answers for. But still, we have faith – we choose to believe. I think that’s why they call it faith. If we knew all the answers, no faith would be required.”
[Photo by Richard Vogel/ Associated Press]