The Real Stories of Grief and Trials Behind CAIN’s “I Made It”

by Hope Nation

November 5, 2025
2 minute read

Do you feel like you’ve made it… or do you feel like you’re still in the middle of it?

Grief doesn’t fit into our schedules. It doesn’t show up when it’s convenient or fade away once we’ve “processed” it. It interrupts, rearranges, and reminds us that loss was never part of God’s original plan for humanity.

Pain was never meant to be our story.

CAIN’s song “I Made It” steps into these thoughts. On the surface, it sounds like an anthem of victory, but the story behind it runs much deeper.

The siblings, Taylor, Madison, and Logan wrote it while walking through some of the hardest seasons of their lives. Around that time, Logan and his wife Emily endured a miscarriage. Madison was battling her mental health. Friends of the band were facing unimaginable losses of their own.

When the trio began performing “I Made It,” people would often come up afterward and say,

“I can’t say that I’ve made it yet—I’m still in the middle of it.”

But that’s exactly the heart of the song. It isn’t a declaration that everything’s fine now. It’s a faith statement for the middle.

One of the most moving testimonies is from Jason and his wife, Abigail, who was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer shortly after giving birth to their son.

In the video, Jason shares how Abigail chose to be baptized in the midst of her diagnosis to show the world that, no matter what happened, she had already won in Christ.

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Madison shares in the video,

“Now heaven is more than an idea. It’s where my friend is, it’s where Jesus is, it’s where my nephew is, and I can’t wait to get there. There are some things we thought were going to kill us and take us down, but we made it. The Lord helped us survive.”

 

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CAIN has said the word spoken over them in that season was survival. And maybe that’s what faith looks like for many of us, too. There are moments when victory looks less like dancing out of the fire and more like still standing in it.

You don’t have to wait for the perfect ending to see God’s goodness. If you’re still in the middle of it, hold on. You are not alone. You’ve made it through diagnosis, you’ve made it through disappointment, you’ve made it through Monday, even.

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