Seph Schlueter on Counting His Blessings, Losing a Baby, and Trusting God Through it All

Christian artist Seph Schlueter shares the story behind his breakout hit Counting My Blessings and how his debut album reflects years of personal prayers, heartache and gratitude. He opens up about writing songs that gained deeper...

Michael Foust

Updated Jul 18, 2025

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For Christian artist Seph Schlueter, songs about praising God through pain took on deeper significance last August when he and his wife walked through their own tragedy. The Counting My Blessings and Running Back to You singer was touring and preparing for a new album release when they learned during a 20-week ultrasound that their unborn baby girl -- named Charlotte Davy Schlueter -- no longer had a heartbeat. That month, he wrote on social media, was the "hardest of our lives." Schlueter knew she had joined "a great cloud of witnesses in Heaven, singing praise to the King who sits on the throne" -- as he wrote -- but that biblical truth did not eliminate his and his wife's pain.

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Originally published July 18, 2025.

Michael Foust has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years. His stories have appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, The Christian Post, the Leaf-Chronicle, the Toronto Star and the Knoxville News-Sentinel.

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