CMT Blog: Faith

For years, she was known to the general public primarily as Alan Jackson’s wife, but with It’s All About Him: Finding the Love of My Life, Denise Jackson made a name for herself as a New York Times bestselling author. Now, Jackson has written a new inspirational book, The Road Home, which relates how faith helped her deal with tough situations.

Her publisher wanted to pull out the core messages from her autobiography and put them in more of a short-story form. “It could be more like a devotional-type thing, where you could read two or three pages at a time,” Jackson says. “I think this will really appeal to women graphically, because it’s got beautiful pictures. I added scriptures and some inspirational quotes from people I’ve been encouraged by.”

Jackson says her favorite nugget of wisdom in the book involves the power of prayer.

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After about a decade of taking concert photos, I finally invested in a nice zoom lens about three years ago. It pretty much changed my life. No longer did I come home with shot after shot of a tiny artist on a big ugly stage. That lens gave me the power to get tighter than tight on their faces. And what I discovered is that while you can certainly get extreme close-ups of the artists singing, you can also zoom in on everything else. And by everything else, I mean the tattoos that grace their skin.

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