Amy Grant is grateful for the support of her family, friends and fans after her bike accident last July, but none as much as her husband, Vince Gill. The gospel singer, who was unconscious after the accident, spent several days in the hospital recovering, before continuing her recovery at home. Through it all, it was Gill who remained her constant and steady support, even when she wasn’t sure if any of her injuries were permanent.

“The biggest thing was in the two months after the wreck, it was really depressing,” Grant admits to People. “Everything canceled, and I just said, ‘What if I’m never all the way back?'”

“And he said, ‘Things happen to people every day, and you just have to take one day at a time, and we’re here, and I love you,'” she continues. “And that just kind of made every day of the journey okay. And I do feel fantastic.”

Grant’s extensive injuries forced her to postpone her fall tour, which will now take place this year instead. While she was able to tour over Christmas, and also attend the Kennedy Center Honors, where she was a recipient, the 62-year-old admits she is not fully back to how she was before the accident — at least not yet.

“They said a 12 to 18-month recovery for a head injury and so every once in a while, I’ll be talking to somebody, and they’ll say something that I guess I used to know,’ Grant shares. “I’ll gasp and go, ‘Are you kidding me?!'”

“But I’m telling you,” she adds, “I’m glad for every day,”

Grant previously praised Gill for how well he took care of her while she was recovering, and calmed her fears when she worried her injuries could be permanent.

“He has just been so patient,” Grant told Fox News. “Vince has a kind of way of grounding the space that we’re in even without saying a word … I think early on I said, ‘What if I’m different, what if I’m not the same?’” Grant recalls. “And he said, ‘Hey, every day we wake up a little different, and we love each other, and it’s good.’”

While Grant hated being unable to tour in the fall, she can find a silver lining over the unexpected time at home.

“It has been the quietest season of my life,” Grant told The Washington Post, adding how much of an adjustment it was — in a good way — to have the time to do nothing, something her career had never afforded her before.

“There are times in our lives where we can just be so busy that you’re present, but you’re also ticking off that list of things that need to be done,” Grant reflects. “Or somebody sits down for a conversation and you’re giving 100 percent attention, but you also can’t make the next thing on the calendar completely go away. That was the biggest adjustment.”

Find all of Grant’s music and tour dates at AmyGrant.com.

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