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Kevin Lowe: If God were real, then why would He let this happen?

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Kevin Lowe: That question, it never shows up when life is good.

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Kevin Lowe: It shows up when you're in the hospital waiting room, when you're at the funeral,

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Kevin Lowe: you're at the graveside.

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Kevin Lowe: It comes in the middle of a silent night when the prayer that you've been praying.

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Kevin Lowe: Constantly goes unanswered and you find yourself sobbing into your pillow in

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Kevin Lowe: the silent of the night, just wishing, hoping, praying that God would hear you

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Kevin Lowe: that he would answer your prayers.

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Kevin Lowe: And again, you come back to that question.

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Kevin Lowe: If God is real, then why would he allow this to happen?

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Kevin Lowe: Why would he allow all this pain and the hurt to happen?

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Kevin Lowe: How could he be real if this is what I'm going through?

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Kevin Lowe: Well, my friend, today, I don't claim or even pretend like I have the answers.

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Kevin Lowe: But what I do have is a story, my story. A matter of fact, inside of today's

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Kevin Lowe: episode, I have a series of stories where I'm able to show where God has been

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Kevin Lowe: real, even in the midst of the pain.

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Kevin Lowe: So my friend, if you could use some hope, if you could use a reassurance that

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Kevin Lowe: yes, God is real, then my friend, today is for you.

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Kevin Lowe: This is episode 386 of Grit, Grace, and Inspiration, and I am your host,

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Kevin Lowe: Kevin Lowe, so honored that you have chosen to be here today cooking play on this specific episode.

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Kevin Lowe: So with that, I welcome you to the podcast.

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Kevin Lowe: What's going on, my friend? And welcome back to Grit, Grace and Inspiration.

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Kevin Lowe: Today's episode is coming out just two days after the Easter holiday.

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Kevin Lowe: And I felt like that was such a fitting time for me to talk about a topic I've

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Kevin Lowe: been wanting to discuss here on the podcast.

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Kevin Lowe: And well, finally, the timing just felt right.

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Kevin Lowe: Now, I kind of made reference to it at the beginning of the episode of this

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Kevin Lowe: kind of disclaimer of sorts that when tackling these big questions,

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Kevin Lowe: like if God is real, then why does he allow bad things to happen?

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Kevin Lowe: As I said, I do not pretend to have the answers. I do not pretend to be somebody I'm not.

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Kevin Lowe: I'm just me, a dude who's been through some stuff in life.

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Kevin Lowe: And so I just bring my own perspective. That is it.

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Kevin Lowe: And in that, I have some stories in my life where God has definitely been real,

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Kevin Lowe: where He has shown up in a big way.

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Kevin Lowe: And I want to share those with you today, as I said, to just hopefully give you a little bit of hope.

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Kevin Lowe: Because maybe you clicked on today's episode because you're questioning your faith.

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Kevin Lowe: Maybe you're questioning everything that you've known because you have prayers

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Kevin Lowe: that have gone unanswered. or maybe you've had some stuff happen in life that's been devastating.

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Kevin Lowe: And my friend, if anybody knows what you're feeling and what you're going through,

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Kevin Lowe: it's me because I've been there.

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Kevin Lowe: And well, we're all on this journey together, living in this world where nothing is perfect.

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Kevin Lowe: Things go wrong all the time. There's way too much hurt, way too much pain.

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Kevin Lowe: To be honest, it's part of the reason why I do this podcast in the first place

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Kevin Lowe: is I just want to hopefully be one little piece trying to bring a smile to the

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Kevin Lowe: world to make somebody's day a little bit brighter.

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Kevin Lowe: And that's what this is all about. Now, today, as I said, I'm about to share

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Kevin Lowe: with you three stories that have proven that, yes, God is definitely real,

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Kevin Lowe: even in the midst of the darkness, even in the midst of the pain.

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Kevin Lowe: The first story I want to share is a story that I've shared many times on the

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Kevin Lowe: podcast, but today it's more relevant than ever before.

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Kevin Lowe: I went blind unexpectedly in 2003. When I went into surgery to have the recently

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Kevin Lowe: discovered brain tumor removed, we thought everything was going to go fine.

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Kevin Lowe: Nothing that happened after was expected. Not at all.

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Kevin Lowe: Not me becoming blind. Not me having all these medical complications.

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Kevin Lowe: Not me remaining in the ICU for two weeks.

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Kevin Lowe: No, none of that was expected.

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Kevin Lowe: And when I came home, life was completely different.

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Kevin Lowe: Everything I knew was gone It was destroyed I literally was trapped in a world of darkness And yet.

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Kevin Lowe: There was one person who was always there with me. Now, truth be told, I have no memory of this.

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Kevin Lowe: My memory doesn't pick up until quite some time after the day of surgery.

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Kevin Lowe: My memory stops going into the operating room and doesn't pick up until weeks later being back home.

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Kevin Lowe: And during this time in between, there was so much happening in amongst my family with me,

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Kevin Lowe: them just trying to literally keep me alive to then my mom bringing home her

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Kevin Lowe: son in this whole new foreign world.

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Kevin Lowe: And she tells the story, and I've told it on the podcast before.

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Kevin Lowe: And when I've had her on the podcast, she actually told the story how she asked

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Kevin Lowe: me finally one morning who it was that I talked to when I go to bed at night.

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Kevin Lowe: And she said that I said just so plainly, oh, Jesus, that he's always there with me.

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Kevin Lowe: And that, my friend, right there, I believe, encompasses everything that faith is about.

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Kevin Lowe: And it encompasses everything that I'm trying to show you today,

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Kevin Lowe: that God is real and that God is there and that God will show up when the time is right.

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Kevin Lowe: In this instance, it was just a boy, a teenage boy who had his life crumbled.

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Kevin Lowe: And every night that boy would go to bed and he'd cry himself to sleep,

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Kevin Lowe: begging and pleading that God would let him see in the morning.

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Kevin Lowe: And in amongst all of that, he would have a friend.

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Kevin Lowe: He would have his Savior there with him, comforting him, reminding him that it was going to be okay.

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Kevin Lowe: Now, every morning I woke up, my prayers were unanswered. I never got to see again.

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Kevin Lowe: It's now been over 21 years.

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Kevin Lowe: The October of this year will be my 22nd anniversary of being blind.

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Kevin Lowe: But God has been there with me. And that is one of the most important things

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Kevin Lowe: that I want you to understand today is that God, He did not promise that we would have an easy life.

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Kevin Lowe: He never promised that this life would be without hurt. He didn't.

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Kevin Lowe: Matter of fact, this world is a flawed world. It is with sin.

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Kevin Lowe: But you know what he did promise? He said if we accept him into our heart as

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Kevin Lowe: our Lord and Savior, that he would be there with us.

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Kevin Lowe: And that just like Jesus rose from the dead, so will we.

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Kevin Lowe: And we can spend eternity in heaven with Jesus.

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Kevin Lowe: Now, that was story number one. Story number two, though, we fast forward in

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Kevin Lowe: my story quite a few years. We're coming way on up almost to present day.

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Kevin Lowe: I definitely have a good memory of this day, of this story, very well.

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Kevin Lowe: So I'm going to tell it to you from firsthand experience of how God shows up

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Kevin Lowe: in the most unlikely of places and the most unlikely of scenarios.

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Kevin Lowe: This was just an ordinary day. I'm talking like a Tuesday with nothing much is going on.

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Kevin Lowe: I'm at home by myself. It's middle of the afternoon. And I decide that, you know what?

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Kevin Lowe: I'm going to grab a grapefruit out of the refrigerator and have that as a snack.

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Kevin Lowe: And so there I stood with a cutting board, a knife, a grapefruit,

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Kevin Lowe: dicing up that grapefruit into quarters so that I could eat.

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Kevin Lowe: And all of a sudden, tears started streaming down my face.

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Kevin Lowe: There was no warning. There was no buildup. Just all of a sudden,

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Kevin Lowe: this overflowing of emotions came over me.

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Kevin Lowe: And then out of nowhere, I had the feeling come over me that I never expected

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Kevin Lowe: I would feel. That was forgiveness.

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Kevin Lowe: Forgiveness for somebody who I had swore I would never forgive because this

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Kevin Lowe: person, And they had caused so much harm to my family that I swore I would never forgive them,

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Kevin Lowe: not until the day I die.

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Kevin Lowe: And yet here I am, standing in my kitchen, cutting up a grapefruit,

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Kevin Lowe: and I have the most overwhelming feeling of forgiveness.

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Kevin Lowe: And literally, I sat there saying out loud multiple times, I forgive you.

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Kevin Lowe: I forgive you. I forgive you.

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Kevin Lowe: And do you know what? All these years later, to this day, I cannot be angry

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Kevin Lowe: at that person, even if I try.

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Kevin Lowe: That person, I used to have nightmares.

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Kevin Lowe: No longer do I have nightmares. No longer can I even have the first ill thought

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Kevin Lowe: towards that person. I just can't.

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Kevin Lowe: And the only way I can explain that, my friend, is through God,

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Kevin Lowe: through the Holy Spirit.

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Kevin Lowe: Completely took over me. And in that day, I was set free. I was able to forgive

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Kevin Lowe: somebody who I swore I would never forgive.

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Kevin Lowe: Because to me, forgiving them, it meant saying that what they did to my family was okay.

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Kevin Lowe: And my gosh, it was not. It still isn't okay.

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Kevin Lowe: But forgiveness, it's not about setting them free. It's about setting yourself free.

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Kevin Lowe: And again, this is not something that I did on my own. No.

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Kevin Lowe: It's something that was only made possible because of God. And God knew that

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Kevin Lowe: at some point, I had to be set free of that burden that I carried.

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Kevin Lowe: And that day, God showed up in a big way, literally lifting a weight off of

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Kevin Lowe: my shoulders that I didn't even know I was carrying until it was gone.

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Kevin Lowe: And so there it was on a Tuesday afternoon in my kitchen.

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Kevin Lowe: And the most profound thing happened is I was set free. I'll see you next week.

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Kevin Lowe: So sometimes when we can't do it for ourself, well, God shows up for us.

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Kevin Lowe: When the timing is right, and my friend, timing, God's timing,

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Kevin Lowe: that's a whole other day's topic.

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Kevin Lowe: Only he knows when it's right. But I encourage you, if maybe you've been holding on to something,

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Kevin Lowe: if there's somebody who's done you or your family wrong that you've been holding

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Kevin Lowe: on to, my friend, I'm not going to begin to tell you that you should forgive them.

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Kevin Lowe: No, all I am going to tell you, though, is I want you to know there is hope

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Kevin Lowe: and that through the power of the Holy Spirit, I was able to be set free.

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Kevin Lowe: And I'm here today to tell you that God is alive and well in all forms of God,

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Kevin Lowe: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

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Kevin Lowe: That day, the Holy Spirit set me free of a burden that I had been carrying for way too long.

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Kevin Lowe: Then there's story number three A story that I've shared on the podcast But

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Kevin Lowe: it's been quite some time And again If you want to know if God is real,

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Kevin Lowe: In the midst of the bad In the midst of the stuff that has you asking If God

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Kevin Lowe: is real Why does he allow this to happen?

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Kevin Lowe: He showed up in a big way My sister, she suffers from a complicated medical

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Kevin Lowe: issue And at the time that this story takes place, she'd been going through a lot.

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Kevin Lowe: Trips to the ER, 911 calls, racing to the emergency room.

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Kevin Lowe: It had become just part of our weekly routine.

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Kevin Lowe: In this day, though, it was the same situation. We find ourselves back at the hospital in the ER.

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Kevin Lowe: She's not doing good. She was doing really bad.

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Kevin Lowe: The doctors, they didn't know what to do. They were calling in transport,

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Kevin Lowe: saying that she needed to be sent to another hospital, a bigger hospital.

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Kevin Lowe: And at the same time, sitting before me was my sister, who literally I didn't

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Kevin Lowe: think was going to make it that day. None of us did.

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Kevin Lowe: And there she laid in her hospital bed. I was in the room with my mom,

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Kevin Lowe: my dad. And I can remember all of a sudden saying to my mom,

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Kevin Lowe: and it was late one night.

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Kevin Lowe: By this point, I'm going to say it was probably around about nine o'clock at

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Kevin Lowe: night. And I asked her if she had the phone number for our pastor.

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Kevin Lowe: Thank goodness she did. And I asked her to please call.

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Kevin Lowe: And she started to hesitate. And I said, no, mom, please, please call.

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Kevin Lowe: She did. And she handed the phone to me. And our pastor, praise Jesus, he answered the phone.

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Kevin Lowe: And I told him what was going on. And I literally was just calling because I

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Kevin Lowe: wanted to tell him and ask him if he could start praying and if he could start

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Kevin Lowe: spreading the word about what was happening to get a prayer chain going because

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Kevin Lowe: my friend, I know the power of prayer.

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Kevin Lowe: But what happened next was incredible because right before we were about to

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Kevin Lowe: hang up, my pastor, he said, well, let me go ahead and pray with you right now.

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Kevin Lowe: And so there I was in a chair at the foot of the bed and holding the phone to

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Kevin Lowe: my ear, I started praying with my pastor.

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Kevin Lowe: Now, what I didn't realize, being blind, of course, my head bowed,

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Kevin Lowe: was that while I was praying, my sister was starting to move.

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Kevin Lowe: She was starting to recover. And my friend, by the time that I said amen,

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Kevin Lowe: my sister sat up in bed. She was ready to go home.

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Kevin Lowe: Literally in the time that we prayed, God healed my sister.

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Kevin Lowe: Now, what was amazing was in that room that day was somebody who didn't believe

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Kevin Lowe: in God, isn't a Christian.

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Kevin Lowe: And yet they saw what happened. Right before their very eyes, they saw.

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Kevin Lowe: They heard me on the phone. They heard me say amen.

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Kevin Lowe: And they witnessed my sister sit up in bed, completely well, ready to go home.

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Kevin Lowe: My friend, I share these stories. again, reminding you that in this life and

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Kevin Lowe: in this world, we're going to go through hard times.

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Kevin Lowe: It's just part of life, but we don't have to go through them alone.

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Kevin Lowe: And I also remind you that a lot of times it feels like God isn't answering

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Kevin Lowe: our prayers because times will go by where nothing is happening.

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Kevin Lowe: Remember, this year, October of 2025 will be 22 years that I've been completely blind.

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Kevin Lowe: But that doesn't mean that God isn't there. Because what we have to understand,

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Kevin Lowe: as hard as it is to understand, is that God's plans are bigger than our own.

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Kevin Lowe: I believe they're better than our own.

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Kevin Lowe: But when heartache is involved, it doesn't make them easy.

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Kevin Lowe: I never would have chosen to become blind. I never would have chosen that my

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Kevin Lowe: sister had to have this complicated medical issue.

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Kevin Lowe: But you know what? to see us through it has been God.

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Kevin Lowe: It's been my amazing faith in Jesus Christ who died on the cross that day for me, for you,

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Kevin Lowe: and proved to the world that in fact, he would rise again on Sunday, two days later.

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Kevin Lowe: We celebrate Good Friday, the day that Jesus died on the cross for us,

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Kevin Lowe: for our sins, so that we can have everlasting eternity in heaven with him.

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Kevin Lowe: And just as he promised, he would rise again. The tomb would be left empty.

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Kevin Lowe: My friend, I can't make it in this life without Jesus Christ.

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Kevin Lowe: I don't know how anybody does because I know I couldn't.

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Kevin Lowe: My faith, my relationship with Jesus is the only way that I'm here today.

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Kevin Lowe: And it's the only way that I'll be able to continue on with this life because,

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Kevin Lowe: my gosh, my friend, this life is way too tough for me to dare think that I could

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Kevin Lowe: try to walk it without Jesus by my side.

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Kevin Lowe: My friend, I encourage you that if you don't already have a relationship with

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Kevin Lowe: your creator, I encourage you

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Kevin Lowe: to really explore it and understand that it doesn't take anything special.

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Kevin Lowe: It doesn't mean that you have to be some perfect person.

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Kevin Lowe: No, it doesn't mean that at all. It just simply means that you want to have

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Kevin Lowe: a relationship with your Creator,

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Kevin Lowe: accepting and understanding that Jesus is the Son of Christ,

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Kevin Lowe: that He died on the cross but rose again.

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Kevin Lowe: And whoever should believe in him can have everlasting eternity in heaven with him.

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Kevin Lowe: I understand today's episode was different than most, but here we are,

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Kevin Lowe: the week of Easter, and it just felt right.

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Kevin Lowe: And if anything, if you're still here, I just hope and pray that something I

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Kevin Lowe: said today can bring you the hope and the comfort and the peace that you were looking for.

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Kevin Lowe: Until next time, my friend, I'm your host, Kevin Lowe. And this,

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