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Ask well-known Christian singer/songwriter Cindy Morgan and her new husband about their love story and you'll get two totally different versions. Author Sigmund Brouwer, Cindy's husband of ten months, grins mischievously and explains, "She saw me and pursued me relentlessly." Cindy rolls her eyes, but underneath the table she takes Sigmund's hand. Then there's his serious version: "We met, we dated, we got married." That's it. Cindy's version takes half an hour and includes what Sigmund was wearing when they first met (a long-sleeved shirt and slacks) and what type of restaurant they dined at on their first date (five-star).
Cindy's always had a way with words. She wrote her first song, "The Sun Is Hot," when she was nine years old. Twenty years later, this contemporary Christian musician has twelve number-one hits and three Dove Awards to her credit. Her four albums are chock full of poetic lyrics straight from her heart that have endeared her to audiences across the nation. Though her sound has matured from dance tunes to her own brand of artistic pop, one thing has remained the same: her passionate vocals. Even in a crowded concert hall she vulnerably reveals to her audience a sensitive soul and heart for God.
But off-stage, this same vulnerability led to some bad relationships during her single years. "You know those dating relationships where you become someone you're not?" she asks in her soft southern drawl. "I've been there and it's terrible. I was always dating victims. I wanted to rescue guys. But I learned through some difficult experiences and soul searching that I can't save anyone, only God can."
So how did this sensitive musician who hails from Snake Hollow, Tennessee, meet and marry a Canadian who's written more than forty Christian fiction books for adults and children? Before she launches into Cindy's Version of their love story, she curls up Indian-style on the black leather sofa in what has been Sigmund's home for the past four years. (Cindy and Sigmund plan to split the year between Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, Sigmund's hometown, and Nashville, Cindy's home for the past five years.) Although Cindy's barefoot and dressed in baggy black sweats and one of Sigmund's black knit shirts, she still looks feminine. Around her are the marks of a bachelor pad: leather furniture, a glass and chrome coffee table, and the clincher, a big-screen TV.
The most unmistakable sign of Cindy's presence sits in the living room, a present from Sigmund last Christmas. "We'd just returned from our honeymoon and were in the back room. Sigmund told me he had a rose for me in the living room. I went to get it, and when I walked in the doorway there was a rose sitting on top of this beautiful six-foot grand piano. I ran to hug him, screamed, then ran back in here and started playing it. I couldn't believe it. It had been my life's dream to have a piano like this.
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