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“We see in Psalms David lamenting over the trials in his life. This is sort of my lament.”

Amity Gilmour, 24, is a Christian singer/songwriter battling chronic illness, who is soon to release her third single, Cry.

Gilmour suffers from a genetic connective tissue disorder, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), and in April 2023, she moved to Sydney, Australia, for rigorous medical treatment. Even as her health declines, her career as a musician is only growing.

Pieces was her first single, released in April 2024, which unpacks the realisation you are more than your pain, and the resilience and faithfulness that follows.

Following its success, her second song, Healing, was accepted on 45 Christian radio stations across Australia prior to its release. It delved deeper into Gilmour’s experiences being told by fellow Christians, “If you were just faithful enough, you would be healed,” and how damaging that belief can be.

Both songs are a testament that it is not faith that gets us out of worldly pain, but that gets us through it.

Express Your Pain

Yet Gilmour’s upcoming release switches gears. “I don’t feel like singing a song of joy this time,” the lyrics read.

In the past, Gilmour admits to having struggled with the belief Christians should sustain an “I’m-okay-disguise”, as the song terms it. “For so long, my thoughts and assumptions were that in order to be a better Christian, you have to have it all together,” said Gilmour. “But that’s just not the case.”

She recalls Jesus himself flipping tables with anger in the Temple and weeping with grief over the death of his friend. “God wants us to be honest,” said Gilmour. “Being able to express your pain is something that God supports.”

She declares, “This is me reaching out and saying I’m not okay, and that’s okay.”

Gilmour wrote this song at the end of 2021. “It was New Year’s Eve, and I wanted to go out. But I was very sick because I got a feeding tube for the first time.” While her friends partied, Gilmour rang in the new year composing this ballad.

The final lyric of the first verse reads, “How can one person stoop so low so many times?” Gilmour highlights this as she elaborates, “I think for me, that was my way of expressing how it felt like one thing after another. How can so many things happen to one person?”

On 14 March, Cry will be available on all streaming platforms, with many more singles set to be released throughout the year. As Gilmour’s career blossoms, she will continue to sing of faith, hope and resilience.

For now, she reminds us, “We still hide away our feelings with that I’m-Okay-Disguise / And no one knows, so we wish we had each other’s lives to live / But what we don’t see in each other is our pain… Sometimes we cry.”