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I don\u2019t know how He\u2019s allowed it to happen,\u201d\u2014I would definitely encourage you to wrestle that out\u2014you know, wrestle it out with Scripture, wrestle it out in prayer, wrestle it out with friends and family, who can offer insight, because I do find that it\u2019s when we wrestle through those things that God reveals Himself.\n\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> This is <em>FamilyLife Today <\/em>for Tuesday, November 24<sup>th<\/sup>. Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I\u2019m Bob Lepine. Ginny Owens joins us today to share about her life, share her music, and to share her confidence in a great God.\n\n<strong>1:00<\/strong>\n\nStay tuned.\n\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\nAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today.<\/em> Thanks for joining us on the Tuesday edition. The issue of God\u2019s sovereignty is one of those issues we do wrestle with when we face circumstances, events, actions\u2014things that happen in our lives\u2014where we go, \u201cThat wouldn\u2019t be what I would have picked.\u201d And yet, we do have to acknowledge that God knows better than we know in the midst of our circumstances.\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Yes. Bob, I\u2019ve been reminded of that afresh. I\u2019ve been spending a lot of time in the Gospels, just been reading about the life of Christ. I\u2019m amazed that Jesus asked so many questions. If there was ever anybody who ever walked on the planet, who ought to be making statements, it would be Jesus; but instead, He asks a lot of questions.\n\nHe also touched a lot of lives. One of the lives he touched is in John, Chapter 9,\n\n[verses 1-41]\u2014it was a man who was born blind.\n\n<strong>2:00<\/strong>\n\nJesus stepped into his life and healed him. The religious community couldn\u2019t believe it. Of course, they made a big deal out of it. Jesus said: \u201cIt wasn\u2019t because of his sin or somebody else\u2019s. It was so the glory of God could be demonstrated in this man\u2019s life.\u201d\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> You went right to that passage when we had the opportunity recently to sit down and talk with Ginny Owens, who\u2019s a singer\/songwriter, who has been blind from her early childhood. She came and shared with us and with our staff some of her songs and a lot of her story.\n\nWe thought: \u201cYou know what? Thanksgiving week is a pretty good week to revisit and give thanks for the blessings that we have\u2014some of which we take for granted in our lives\u2014things like eyesight, or shelter, or food, or just the gift of life that we have each day.\u201d We thought our listeners would be encouraged by Ginny\u2019s story.\n\n<strong>3:00<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> Bob, you know her story; but she\u2019s received three Dove awards, including the New Artist of the Year in the year 2000. She had the inspirational recorded song of the year in 2001 for the song, <em>Blessed<\/em>.\n\nShe has her own non-profit organization called Fingerprint Initiative\u2014so she\u2019s leaving her fingerprint on the soul of people\u2019s lives through the gift of music and through the story of her own life. You\u2019re going to be encouraged by her life. If you know a young person, who\u2019s talented and maybe struggles with some limitations they are facing\u2014might ought to pick up a phone, call them, and tell them to listen to this broadcast.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> We\u2019re going to pick Ginny\u2019s story up as she heads off to college in Nashville.\n\n[Previously Recorded Interview]\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>So let\u2019s go to Belmont. When you got accepted into Belmont, it was in the music program; right?\n\n<strong>Ginny:<\/strong> It was\u2014because God has a sense of humor\u2014so, yes.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> So you were studying, thinking that you would probably be a music teacher at some point\u2014\n\n<strong>4:00<\/strong>\n\n\u2014is that kind of the career path you were on as you studied music?\u2014or were you thinking songwriter again? \u2014or \u201cMaybe I\u2019ll be the next Amy Grant,\u201d\u2014or what were you thinking?\n\n<strong>Ginny:<\/strong> I vaguely remember hoping to still major also in psychology; but by the end of my freshman year, I was all into music. I thought maybe I would be the cool music teacher\u2014maybe go teach high school and direct a choral program, and teach students how to come up with their own background vocals, and maybe teach them how to read charts as well as reading classical music\u2014so almost introduce contemporary music to them as well.\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> So you\u2019re on a track to use your musical talents again. This is kind of a resurrection of sorts. One of your professors made a flippant comment in front of your peers about your talent.\n\n<strong>5:00<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Ginny:<\/strong> I was in an audition with one of my friends. I was playing piano for her, accompanying her as she sang. Our professor remarked: \u201cYes, Ginny\u2014your voice is really weak. I was thinking, in your audition yesterday, it\u2019s just so weak. I\u2019m not sure what you\u2019re ever going to be able to do with it.\u201d I had to recover, and smile, and play \/ accompany my friend.\n\nThen I had to think about my life and what to do with that comment. It inspired me, actually; and I finished my music education degree. The great part of making that choice was that I spent my last semester of classes in\u2014I don\u2019t know\u201421 hours of general eds because, as a music major, you put off your general eds for a long time. The great part was that I had so much time to write songs in those classes. [Laughter] So I wrote\u2014really, my first record was pretty much written in those classes. [Laughter]\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> When you graduated, having been kind of steered away from performance by a professor, now you\u2019re thinking, \u201cMusic education is what I\u2019ll do.\u201d But you found that schools were reluctant to hire a blind music teacher.\n\n<strong>6:00<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Ginny:<\/strong> They definitely were. They seemed <em>so<\/em> <em>excited<\/em> when they got my resume and when we\u2019d talk on the phone to schedule the interview. I would walk into the room, and you could just sense them freaking out and becoming unnerved. It was a blow, but I expected it would be that way.\n\nI don\u2019t know\u2014about six months in, I was very frustrated. I was just going: \u201cOkay Lord, I don\u2019t have any idea why I\u2019m here. I don\u2019t know why You\u2019ve brought me to this place. Did I major in the wrong thing? Did I go to the wrong school? What am I supposed to be doing right now?\u201d Unfortunately, questions seemed to come in packages of many instead of just one at a time\u2014I had plenty of them.\n\nIt was at that time, though, that I really began to learn what it is to trust and to surrender because I knew that I literally didn\u2019t know what was around the corner or what was right in front of me.\n\n<strong>7:00<\/strong>\n\nI think that was a <em>huge<\/em> development in my relationship with God just because I finally began to learn what it was to lay down who I was and who I wanted to be\u2014to surrender that to Him and to wait for Him to move and to work and to lead me where He wanted me to go.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> The song you wrote, <em>If You Want Me To<\/em>, became kind of a defining song for you; didn\u2019t it?\n\n<strong>Ginny:<\/strong> It absolutely did. I think we all know what it is to struggle to surrender. We all know what it is to desire to <em>know<\/em> what\u2019s ahead, and to not be able to know, and to have to just trust God. I think that\u2019s a universal thing we can all relate to.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> So since you\u2019ve got a piano there in front of you, how about if you sing that for us?\n\n<strong>Ginny:<\/strong> Sure.\n\n[Singing <em>If You Want Me To<\/em>]\n\n<strong>8:00<\/strong>\n\n<strong>9:00<\/strong>\n\n<strong>10:00<\/strong>\n\n<strong>11:00<\/strong>\n\n[Applause]\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> You have a quote in your book\u2014you say, \u201cI refused to consider that my lack of sight might be a God-purposed part of me.\u201d There are listeners, right now, who have things in their lives <em>right<\/em> <em>now<\/em> that are limitations. They are looking at them and they have never looked at their limitation like you have. What would you say to them?\n\n<strong>Ginny:<\/strong> Wow! I would say: \u201cGod is the author of creation, and He is the author of each of us because of that. He is also the author of perfection. I have to believe, because of that, there is just nothing that can escape Him. The Psalms tell us\u2014David declared that we are \u201cfearfully and wonderfully made\u201d\u2014[Psalm 139:14].\n\n<strong>12:00<\/strong>\n\nThe quote you mentioned is from a part in the book where I talk about Moses and what I found out about how Moses and I were slightly similar. When Moses is having that experience, where he is at the burning bush, and he has given God every excuse in the book\u2014which I totally understand\u2014he says [Exodus 4;10]: \u201cGod I stutter. I can\u2019t speak well.\u201d And God is the one who, in those verses in Exodus [4:11], says: \u201cWho is the one who has given man his mouth and allowed him to speak? Or makes him unable to speak? Who is it that allows the deaf to be deaf? And allows the blind to be blind? It is I, the eternal God.\u201d\n\nWhen you think of it that way, you go: \u201cOkay there it is. If this is reality \/ if God is in control of even these things, then how do we move forward?\u201d You know, I would encourage those who feel like they\u2019re facing a circumstance that they just go: \u201cI don\u2019t\u2019 know how God is in control of this \/ I don\u2019t know how He\u2019s allowed it to happen,\u201d\u2014\n\n<strong>13:00<\/strong>\n\n\u2014I would definitely encourage you to wrestle it out with Scripture, wrestle it out in prayer, wrestle it out with people around you\u2014wiser than you\u2014maybe from your local church \/ or friends and family who can offer insight. Because I do find that it\u2019s when we wrestle through those things that God reveals Himself, and He invites to a new level of surrender. He also just shows us more of who He is; and we understand, \u201cOkay I may not clearly get all that\u2019s going on until heaven\u2014until we are together, face to face\u2014but I know enough to know He is good today.\u201d\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I hope our listeners heard what you just said\u2014you made a <em>very<\/em> important point. You said: \u201cDon\u2019t try to do it alone. Talk to some others\u2014some people who are ahead of you in the race\u2014who are wiser \/ more mature\u2014and listen to their counsel.\u201d\n\n<strong>14:00<\/strong>\n\nI know, in my life, when I\u2019ve done that, I\u2019ve had people call me to faith. They call me away from unbelief, which is the direction our hearts go. We don\u2019t naturally move toward faith \/ we move toward doubt. There\u2019s nothing wrong with that struggle. The struggle with doubt is an opportunity for faith to be born and a heart that learns to trust God like you sang about.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> And a heart where you ultimately have to make the decision that you\u2019re going to praise God regardless of what the circumstances are. I think of the song on your most recent album that addresses that. It\u2019s a declaration of: \u201cI will praise God no matter what.\u201d\n\n<strong>Ginny:<\/strong> Yes, I am very inspired by the Psalms. Especially recently, I\u2019ve realized how often the psalmists are in the darkest pits of despair; but I love how they always preach truth to themselves.\n\n<strong>15:00<\/strong>\n\nFor the most part, by the end of each Psalm, you get to that place where the psalmist is saying, \u201cBut I will praise You,\u201d or \u201cI will be thankful,\u201d or \u201cI will celebrate,\u201d because he\u2019s talked himself into the truth again.\n\nI love in particular Psalm 42, where the psalmist says, \u201cWhy are you downcast o my soul, why so disturbed within me?\u201d Isn\u2019t that just great language? \u2014it\u2019s just so songwriter-y. [Laughter] Then he says, \u201cPut your hope in God for I will yet praise You, my Savior and my God.\u201d He is preaching to himself of what he can do now and what is to come.\n\nPart of dealing with any struggle\u2014whether it\u2019s a job that\u2019s difficult, whether it\u2019s blindness, whether it\u2019s cancer\u2014part of dealing with anything that has come in our path is declaring what we know to be true and declaring what we know about the future. God\u2019s Word tells us so much about the future that we can be hopeful today because we know what is to come.\n\n<strong>16:00<\/strong>\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> So how about declaring for us what you know to be true in singing the song, <em>I Will Praise You<\/em>.\n\n<strong>Ginny:<\/strong> Sure.\n\n[Singing <em>I Will Praise You<\/em>]\n\n<strong>17:00<\/strong>\n\n<strong>18:00<\/strong>\n\n<strong>19:00<\/strong>\n\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\n[Applause]\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> As you were singing that, I was just thinking of the passage of Scripture that I read earlier\u2014John 9\u2014and how you were fulfilling that passage when Jesus walked past a man who\u2019d been blind since birth. He was asked, \u201cWho sinned, him or his parents?\u201d Jesus said: \u201cNeither; but that the works of God could be displayed in him.\u201d I think we just heard the works of God displayed in you.\n\n<strong>20:00<\/strong>\n\nI just want to thank you for your gift of music and for using that to praise God and for how you model faith even though you can\u2019t see.\n\n[Studio]\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Well, again, today, we\u2019ve had the chance to hear from Ginny Owens\u2014singer, songwriter, and somebody who is displaying the glory of God in the midst of affliction and adversity and is praising Him in the darkness.\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> I love a story like this. I absolutely love a story like this because she\u2019s no quitter\u2014she preservers. I\u2019m reminded of one of my favorite quotes\u2014I\u2019ve probably shared it a dozen times\u2014so you regular listeners can quote it along with me\u2014it\u2019s by C. H. Spurgeon. Listen carefully\u2014he said, \u201cIt was by perseverance the snail reached the ark,\u201d\u2014slimed his way to board the ark. [Laughter] I feel like, sometimes, that\u2019s me\u2014just preserving.\n\n<strong>21:00<\/strong>\n\nThere\u2019s a lot to be said for not quitting.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Yes.\n\n<strong>Dennis:<\/strong> There really is. I don\u2019t know where you are, as a listener today; but maybe you\u2019ve taken heart \/ maybe you have decided not to lose heart because of what you\u2019ve heard of a young lady who didn\u2019t quit\u2014who is preserving all the way to the end.\n\n<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Well, and one of the things I really appreciate about Ginny is that she is speaking about what\u2019s at the core or our faith. She\u2019s written a book with Andrew Greer called <em>Transcending Mysteries: Who Is God and What Does He Want from Us?<\/em> In the midst of her own circumstances, she goes back to square one\u2014back to the basics \/ the foundation of our faith: \u201cWho is Jesus, and what does He want from us?\u201d\n\nWe\u2019ve got copies of Ginny\u2019s book in our <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> Resource Center. We also have links to some music videos, including Ginny singing <em>Be Thou My Vision,<\/em> which is from her <em>Say Amen<\/em> CD.\n\n<strong>22:00<\/strong>\n\nYou can go to FamilyLifeToday.com and watch the videos \/ you can order the CD from us if you\u2019d like. We\u2019ve got copies of her hymns CD available, online; or you can call 1-800-FL-TODAY to order a copy of her book or her CD. So, again, go to the web to watch videos\u2014FamilyLifeToday.com. You can also order resources from us, online; or you can call to order Ginny\u2019s book or her CD\u20141-800-358-6329\u2014that\u2019s 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d\n\nOur goal with each program we record, here at <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>, is to provide listeners with practical biblical help and hope for the issues you face in your marriage and in your family. I trust that, as you listen to today\u2019s program \/ or if you\u2019re a regular listener, as you tune in each day, you\u2019re receiving the kind of help that you\u2019re looking for. Our goal is to see every home become a godly home\u2014\n\n<strong>23:00<\/strong>\n\n\u2014to see husbands and wives conforming their marriage and their family to the priorities of God\u2019s word.\n\nI just want to say a quick \u201cThank you,\u201d to those of you who make all of this possible, as supporters of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>\u2014those of you who are Legacy Partners and who donate each month, we appreciate your support\u2014and those of you who will, from time to time \/ and often, as we approach the end of the year, you will get in touch with us and say, \u201cWe appreciate what God is doing through the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u201d Thank you for being a part of this ministry.\n\nIf you\u2019d like to help with a donation today, we\u2019d like to say, \u201cThank you,\u201d by sending you a book that Barbara Rainey has written for families called <em>Growing Together in Gratitude<\/em>. It\u2019s a collection of stories that are all about being thankful. These are stories you can read aloud to your younger children, or older children can read them themselves\u2014great for family devotions. It\u2019s our gift to you when you request it as you make a donation, online, at FamilyLifeToday.com.\n\n<strong>24:00<\/strong>\n\nOr you can call to make a donation at 1-800-FL-TODAY. Of course, you can mail your donation, along with your request for the book, to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> at PO Box 7111, Little Rock, AR; our zip code is 72223.\n\nNow, tomorrow, we\u2019re going to talk, not about Ginny Owens\u2019 blindness, but we\u2019ll talk about her singleness and talk about her desire to be married. I hope you can tune in for that.\n\nI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine. We will see you back tomorrow for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\n\n<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas.\n\nHelp for today. Hope for tomorrow.\n\n<sup>\u00a9<\/sup>Song: <em>If You Want Me To<\/em>\n\nArtist:\u00a0\u00a0 Ginny Owens\n\nAlbum: <em>Without Condition<\/em>, 1999, Rocketown Records\n\n<sup>\u00a9<\/sup>Song: <em>I Will Praise You<\/em>\n\nArtist:\u00a0\u00a0 Ginny Owens\n\nAlbum: <em>I Know a Secret<\/em>, 2014, Word Entertainment\n\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\nWe are so happy to provide these transcripts to you. However, there is a cost to produce them for our website. If you\u2019ve benefited from the broadcast transcripts, would you consider <a href=\"http:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/donate\">donating today<\/a> to help defray the costs?\n\nCopyright <sup>\u00a9<\/sup> 2015 FamilyLife. 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