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God's Will

Field	Value
name	God's Will
cover	God's Will (Martina).jpg
type	single
artist	Martina McBride
album	Martina
released	November 26, 2004
genre
length	(album version)
(video version)
(radio edit)
label	RCA Nashville
writer
producer
prev_title	Trip Around the Sun
prev_year	2004
next_title	(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden
next_year	2005

(video version) (radio edit)

"God's Will" is a song recorded by American country music artist Martina McBride for her seventh studio album Martina (2003). The song was written by Barry Dean and Tom Douglas and produced by McBride and Paul Worley. McBride's label, RCA Nashville, began pushing the song to country radio in late November 2004 as the fourth and final single from the album.

Music video

The music video was directed by Deaton-Flanigen Productions and premiered in late 2004. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video, becoming McBride's second nomination after "Concrete Angel" and her tenth overall nomination.

Synopsis

The video starts with a leaf floating in the wind, before landing on Martina (a reference to the opening of "Forrest Gump". McBride sits on a pew bench in the park with autumn leaves blowing in the wind. She starts singing and thinks back to a Halloween night when she met Will, a young, disabled boy who came trick-or-treating dressed as a bag of leaves. Later, it shows McBride and her daughter babysitting Will and playing a board game while his mother worked late. Later, McBride sees Will and his mom playing tee ball in their yard. Will and his mom eventually move away and before he gets into his car he gives McBride a drawing of him and her holding hands with the words "Me and God love you" written in crayon and she waves goodbye to him. The video ends with McBride sitting on the pew bench in the park, holding Will's drawing lovingly to her chest, and going to play with her daughter, while the leaf from the video's opening blows away and eventually lands in a river.

Charts

"God's Will" debuted at number 56 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week of December 4, 2004.

Weekly charts

Chart (2004–2005)	Peak
position
Canada Country (Radio & Records)	19
US Country Top 50 (Radio & Records)	13

Year-end charts

Chart (2005)	Position
US Country Songs (Billboard)

References

(November 26, 2004). "New & Active - Country".
Dinoia, Maria Konicki. "''Martina''". [[Allmusic]].
"CMT : Videos : Martina McBride : God's Will". [[Country Music Television]].
Shelburne, Craig. (December 8, 2005). "Paisley, Wilson Earn Four Grammy Nominations Each". [[Country Music Television]].
(November 29, 2004). "Allan's "Nothing On but the Radio" Hits No. 1". [[Country Music Television]].
(April 1, 2005). "R&R Canada Country Top 30".
(April 22, 2005). "R&R Country Top 50".
(December 16, 2005). "Top Country Songs of 2005". [[Billboard Radio Monitor]].

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