By Hannah Curran, Editor
KENTUCKY — A 2009 Hewitt-Trussville graduate, Dustin Short, released a new single, “I Won’t Forget,” featuring Hope Darst on Friday, September 9, reminding people that whatever you are going through, God is there through it all.
“I hope this song will help people remember all the things that God has done for them so that no matter what adversity life brings, they can get through it knowing that God has gotten them this far,” Short said. “He isn’t finished yet. He is still God, and he is still Good.”
Short is now a worship pastor at Lifepoint Church in Louisville, Kentucky, and has been writing music since he was 19.
“I grew up as a military brat, but I landed [in Trussvill] for pretty much all of high school and one year of middle school,” Short said. “I came to know the Lord, and when I was a senior in high school, I hadn’t ever really been into music a lot. I would say, as far as playing instruments or singing, I never really was into that until after I came to the Lord. So just from that moment, I moved to a couple of different places and was under some outstanding leaders in the church, and ultimately, I learned everything that I know now.”
He wrote the song with 2021 Gospel Music Association Dove Award nominee Hope Darst and David Ramirez after losing his nephews Tucker and Bennett Meads.
“The song was written after the tough journey of losing my nephews,” Short said. “It was a way for us to remember that no matter how hard it got, that God is faithful and that we should always worship him, even when things don’t make sense.”
Short said that when he wrote this song, he wanted to encourage people who are struggling that they can get through any situation.
“Especially situations that don’t make sense, like, ‘why is this happening to me, God?'” Short said. “I was reading scripture, and I felt like the Lord was speaking to me, in a sense, ‘remember all the things that I’ve done, remember all the things that I brought you through, remember how far you’ve come. So, if you do that, if you lean into all the things that I’ve done for you, then maybe, just maybe, it’ll help you get through this next hurdle because I haven’t left you, I haven’t forsaken you.’ That’s kind of where the song was birthed.”
Darst, Ramirez, and Short all banded together around this idea and thought, and within an hour and a half, the song came together.
“It’s just an honor to have any songs out, but this one, in particular, I feel like it’s special to me,” Short said. “We put out a lot of songs in the past, but this one, just kind of, got a little bit more of a personal story, personal touch on it. So, my prayer is that it would bless whoever needs to be blessed whenever they need to be blessed. I’m praying that anyone struggling in a season where it could pull them away from the Lord, I pray they will listen, and hopefully, it will help pull them through it.”
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