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Earlier this year I was in a church to film a movie, a historic church in Harlem with magnificent stained-glass windows and rows and rows of pews, with choir stalls and stacks of Bibles. Even though my own church was halfway across the country, I felt right at home.<\/p>\n

Church was at the center of my life growing up. My family went to a Baptist church on the South Side of Chicago, and I think we spent more time there than at our house.<\/p>\n

Monday nights we had Bible study, Tuesday nights were rehearsals for the adult choir, Wednesday nights the youth choir rehearsed (I sang in both choirs), Saturdays my mother folded and stapled bulletins, Sundays we were at both morning and evening services.<\/p>\n

We were always there. And more important, our church family was always there with us, helping us stay close to God in good times and bad.<\/p>\n

The movie was Black Nativity, <\/em>based on the Langston Hughes play. I had the part of a single mother about to be evicted from her Baltimore home.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s beaten down by worries, especially about her teenage son. She\u2019s had a falling out with her parents and hasn\u2019t been back to New York City, where her dad\u2019s a preacher, in years.<\/p>\n

Still, she sends her son up there to live with them, to be in a safe place away from her problems. That\u2019s why we were here filming.<\/p>\n

I know what it\u2019s like to pray for my child. My son, David, Jr., named for his father, has been incredibly blessed in his four years, but I think any mother, no matter how old her kids are, understands what it\u2019s like to have hopes and dreams and prayers for them.<\/p>\n

So many of the prayers I said as a girl were sung\u2014and they still are. Our family was full of musicians. My uncle John was one of the lead musicians at church and directed the choir. My cousin Quentin could sit down at the piano and play any song ever written.<\/p>\n

We\u2019d sing one of my grandmother\u2019s favorite hymns, like \u201cHow Great Thou Art,\u201d or a gospel tune like \u201cBe Grateful.\u201d The words filled my spirit as much as the music did.<\/p>\n

\u201cBe grateful,\u201d that gospel song goes, \u201cbecause there\u2019s someone else who\u2019d love to be in your shoes. Be grateful, oh yeah, my God said he\u2019d never, never forsake you.\u201d Be grateful in everything, at all times, like it says in the Bible. Like I heard in church.<\/p>\n

We marked up our Bibles, underlining key verses. We\u2019d take them out and study them when the preacher preached. You\u2019d find one of my mother\u2019s carefully folded programs stuck between the leaves or an inscription inside for an anniversary, a birthday or a graduation.<\/p>\n

That was a Hudson family tradition. If you were celebrating a big milestone or heading off somewhere, you were given a Bible.<\/p>\n

My grandmother gave my uncle a Bible before he left to serve in Vietnam. When I went away to college my mother gave me my own Bible. It\u2019s small, black, and the cover is worn to pieces, but you know the saying, the Bible that\u2019s falling apart belongs to someone who isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

I had it with me when I was on American Idol <\/em>and I\u2019d pull it out of my purse whenever I needed inspiration or guidance. Sometimes the other contestants would tease me about it. \u201cJennifer, you wouldn\u2019t cross the street without your Bible,\u201d they\u2019d say. They were right.<\/p>\n

These days there are Bible apps that make it easy to look up a verse. I use them to read something to David, Jr., or we play a Bible game on his iPad. But I still carry that little Bible my mother gave me everywhere. It\u2019s a reminder of how my faith has carried me. Always.<\/p>\n

That was how all of us felt in my family\u2014my mother; my older brother, Jason; my older sister, Julia; and me. We had love, we had each other and we had God at the center of our lives.<\/p>\n

Even after I grew up and my career took me far from Chicago, I\u2019d still go back there. When I had my big audition for the movie Dreamgirls, <\/em>a huge opportunity, you know where I went to pray? The steps of the church where I\u2019d been going since I was born, the church where I found my voice.<\/p>\n

Or when I won the Academy Award for my role in Dreamgirls, <\/em>or had my first solo album released or got engaged to David, who did I want to thank? God, first and foremost. Then the people he put in my life to support and inspire me\u2013my family and my church most of all.<\/p>\n

They\u2019d given me all I needed to make my way. I try to remember them and honor them in everything I do.<\/p>\n

Especially my grandmother, who believed the best way to show her gratitude to God for her beautiful singing voice was to use it to serve him. My mother, who was utterly devoted to our family. My brother, who had such a generous spirit. He loved to barbecue, feeding the whole neighborhood.<\/p>\n

And my nephew, Julia\u2019s son Julian King, who was all about education. He was so smart and did his homework without being told. He changed his own bedtime from 9:00 to 8:00 so he wouldn\u2019t be late for school. He had people call him \u201cDr. King\u201d because he dreamed of being a doctor.<\/p>\n

Julia and I started the Julian D. King Gift Foundation to provide children positive experiences in his honor. Every August 14, Julian\u2019s birthday, we hold a \u201cHatch Day,\u201d a name he came up with (we don\u2019t know how). He loved parties and would send out Hatch Day invites to family and friends.<\/p>\n

We celebrate his birthday by donating school supplies to thousands of kids in need. I think Julian would have been totally into getting kids as excited about school as he was. We hold an annual Christmas toy drive in his name too.<\/p>\n

Now when Christmas comes I want to do all the things I did growing up, get the fireplace going, get our family together for a fish fry, gather around the piano and sing. And, of course, go to church for the Christmas play, with all the children carrying candles down the aisle and everyone singing carols.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s something special about Christmas, about celebrating the birth of Christ, a kind of beauty that brings people together, that heals the wounds only he can heal.<\/p>\n

I got that exact same feeling there in that historic church in Harlem while we were filming. \u201cFix me, Jesus,\u201d sings the character I play. It\u2019s an outpouring of emotion, the kind of crying out to God we make when we\u2019re brokenhearted, when our spirits are as low as they can go.<\/p>\n

She goes back to New York for the first time in years, reuniting with her parents and her son. What a celebration follows, the choir leaping to their feet, clapping and singing. At last she\u2019s back in the place that nourished her, that sustains her still. Church\u2013the place I\u2019ve always called home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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