This is one of Graham’s most personal songs. It was written in memory of his older sister, who passed away at the age of 40, leaving behind her husband and two young sons. Such a heartbreaking loss left a deep wound on the whole family.

But how do we face tragedies like this? What hope do we cling to?

While holding his sister’s guitar, Graham began searching for a way into the song. He remembered a poem he had read years earlier called Jesus of the Scars, written by a First World War chaplain ministering to traumatised soldiers returning from the trenches. The poem’s cry was simple yet profound:

“No other God has scars.“

That truth became the heartbeat of the song. The scars of Jesus tell us He understands suffering. They remind us that the cross was not the end, He rose again, scars healed, but still visible as signs of His love, His sacrifice, and His victory over death.

In those scars is a uniquely Christian hope: that because Jesus overcame death, we too are invited into resurrection life.

The final verse was the hardest for Graham to write, because he wanted to capture that extraordinary hope; the hope that our scars are not the end of our story.