On Sunday, via Twitter, TobyMac shares his heart a month after the death of his oldest son.
Truett Foster Mckeehan died at 21 years of age at home in Nashville at the end of October 2019.
TobyMac had been on tour in Canada, playing a show on his birthday Tuesday night in Winnipeg. He was set to play in Saskatoon the next day when ticket holders received an email notification that the tour had been cancelled due to a family emergency.
through people. He has loved us through you....your kind acts and words and prayers and thoughts and songs and poems and teachings and gifts and meals and time and expertise and travel have made death bearable. You have been God’s light to us in our darkest days - (cont.) pic.twitter.com/3jr93JfWeQ
— TobyMac (@tobymac) November 24, 2019
Medical examiners with the Metro Nashville Police Department did not at the time release an official cause of death but indicated an autopsy would be conducted to determine what happened reports Faithwire.
In the photos shared to Twitter, it is seen that the pallbearers for the funeral wore red hoodies with the word “Shiloh” printed across the chest. Truett performed his own music under that stage name.
TobyMac says in one of his tweets, "God has the power to do what he promised, defeat death and give life to anyone who believes. So from the valley of the shadow of death, we pray a flood of thankfulness will rise this week. Thankfulness to a kind God who is not afraid."
never forget. Community as it should be...the body at its best. How God must be pleased!
— TobyMac (@tobymac) November 24, 2019
Also- We’ve been encouraging ourselves to stand on this...the place of death is actually where all that we believe is most significant. That God has the power to do what he promised, (cont.) pic.twitter.com/A7U8vQsEzn
“We still don’t quite know which end is up but we do KNOW, we are loved. As we mourn our firstborn son, God has poured out His love on us through people,” TobyMac wrote. “[Y]ou have been God’s light to us in our darkest days — a comfort to our broken hearts. We have experienced family at every layer and every turn.”
The Father of the Heavenly lights...who shines most beautifully in the darkness, and gives us everything we need. pic.twitter.com/vgkzvfsaDI
— TobyMac (@tobymac) November 24, 2019