“When I wrote this thing about Mary, I began by thinking I was interviewing her on her thoughts of being a mother to Jesus. During his work for this, Mark began to imagine what it would have been like to have been Mary, the mother of Jesus. His job was to write the bridges between the traditional holiday carols they sang. In 1984 while living in Houston, Texas, Mark’s pastor asked him to write the program for the living Christmas tree performance. Benson Records then signed Mark and he began recording albums. He sang in front of 15,000 gospel music fans and was an instant hit. It was at the National Quartet Convention where Mark received his first big break. From church programs to community plays and musicals, Mark was part of it.

Since Mark loved to sing and perform, they made sure he had every opportunity to do so. This made him basically an energetic bull-in-a-china shop! While society primarily views ADHD as a negative because it is often difficult to manage in children, Mark’s parents were wise and chose to emphasize the positive side of it.Įarly on, Mark’s parents taught him that God had a plan for his life and that he was fearfully and wonderfully made even with his ADHD diagnosis. While many children with ADHD can channel their energy into sports, Mark, unfortunately, had zero athletic ability. This made it difficult for him to focus on the task at hand and also gave him incredible energy. It was soon discovered that Mark had Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder. While he excelled at singing, he struggled in the classroom. He began singing solos as a preschooler and continued every chance he got through grade school. You could almost say that Mark Lowry was born singing! From an early age, he had a love of music and belted it out for all to hear. Not quite 40 years ago, an energetic,-never-stop-working young man named Mark Lowry wrote the words to the popular Christmas song “Mary Did You Know?” You may be surprised to learn that the beautiful lyrics were written by a man that suffers from ADHD.

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