Theologian, author and singer/songwriter Michael Milton releases a new single today, an Americana-tinged song written while Milton was in the throes of an illness he contracted during aministry trip to Africa in 2010. The single, "How A Wounded Bird Flies," is being released on the Bethesda label and is available on iTunes, Amazon, eMusic and other online retailers. 

"Though I am much better now, I wanted to record the song while still sick in order to better reach out to others in the dark night of the soul," Milton says. "The goal was not simply to record this period of my life, but to release what I prayed would be an authentic voice of suffering that, hopefully, could better identify with those who also suffer and offer the Light of hope in the midst of the darkness of despair. The realization of that vision for this song will, thus, be known only to God and the person it may minister to. I entrust the song to His purposes with the earnest prayer that Christ will be magnified and 'wounded birds' will fly once more."

Cindy Gibbs, Milton's long-time vocal accompanist, joins him on the song.