Ben Fuller almost walked away from the relationship that would become his engagement - until one word kept following him everywhere he turned.
In a new CCM Magazine cover story, the "Black Sheep" singer opened up about nearly ending things with his now-fiancée, Peyton, after a season he described as growing weary from the demands of ministry. Exhausted and questioning everything, Fuller found himself face-down on the floor of his farmhouse in prayer. What came back, he says, was simple: Peyton was "steady" for him.
He didn't think much of it - until days later, sitting with his parents in Vermont, his father asked where Peyton was. When Fuller explained he'd ended things, his father's response stopped him cold: he and Fuller's mother had always felt she was "steady" for him too. The same word, twice, from two different directions.
The day after Christmas, Fuller drove to North Carolina, showed up at Peyton's door, and told her he wasn't leaving again. He eventually proposed back at the same field where the two first met. The couple is now planning a November wedding.
The interview also revealed the unpolished origins of Fuller's live album, The Black Sheep Live Experience. Recorded just two nights into his Black Sheep Tour, Fuller says his own band told him they weren't ready - most live albums are captured months into a tour, once every transition has been rehearsed and refined. Instead, the band prayed before going on, admitting they didn't have every part figured out. Fuller says that unfiltered, unrehearsed quality is exactly why the recording connected the way it did: each night of the tour felt different, shaped by what he called the Holy Spirit doing "a different work in every city."
For an artist whose testimony has already reached thousands through the Black Sheep Tour - which covered more than 10,000 miles and included over 130 baptisms - it's a reminder that some of his most meaningful moments haven't happened on stage at all, but in quieter, less certain places: a farmhouse floor, a doorstep in North Carolina, a field where a question once turned into a wedding date.
