K-LOVE Listener Story: One Thin Dime

Posted on Monday, May 8, 2023 by K-LOVE Staff

K-LOVE listeners Kevin and Athena have quite a story to tell.

Theirs is a tale of grace, perseverance, heartbreak and rejuvenation that culminates with an ending only God could have scripted.

"My husband, Kevin, grew up in an incredibly abusive home,” Athena said. “All throughout his childhood, his dad repeatedly told him, ‘You aren’t worth one thin dime.’ Those words haunted my husband into adulthood – so much so that he got to a place where he couldn’t figure his life out, and he left my son and me for a while.”

At the time, Kevin and Athena had two vehicles, a Honda for Athena and a “big, crazy van” for Kevin. One day, they had to switch cars due to their schedules. When Athena got in the van, the radio was on, so she decided to turn it off before heading home, not leaving the dial on any particular station. But soon, Kevin had a complaint.

“Kevin called me the next day ranting and raving that I had done something to his radio,” Athena remembered. “He said, ‘It’s stuck on that K-LOVE station!’ He was livid, thinking I had damaged his radio. He’d tried to turn the dial and push the buttons, and nothing would change the station. It was stuck, and it stayed stuck on K-LOVE for months and months.”

Over time, unable to listen to anything else in the van, Kevin began to pay attention to the music and the words he was hearing through the speakers, and his perspective began to change.

“My husband and I worked through things and reconciled, and he came back home,” Athena said. “A while later, our neighbor convinced him to sell him the van. The next day, [the neighbor] was blasting rock music from the van. My husband asked him, ‘What did you do to fix it?’ and he said, ‘I don’t know. I just turned on the radio!’”

Just a couple of weeks went by before the neighbor decided he couldn’t afford the van, so Kevin took it back – and sure enough, the radio became stuck on K-LOVE again.

“Eventually, you could hear him start to whistle the tunes,” Athena said of her husband. “I really felt like that radio station had brought us back together.”

Years passed and Kevin eventually sold the van for good, but he kept the radio, determined to figure out why it was stuck on K-LOVE all that time. What he found can only be described as the work of the Father. You must watch to see how God redeemed that phrase and showed Kevin he was worth so much more than “one thin dime.” 

Enjoy this exclusive K-LOVE Listener Story and find hope and belief in God the way Kevin and Athena did.

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