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https://youtu.be/Sg8-2X5Toqw another series of shows before the bottom dropped out. At 30 he gave up hope and swallowed a bottle of pills. Somehow, he survived. He carried on, remarried and continued to tangle with substance abuse. The stroke, says Causey, brought him to a place where he could find God and rebuild himself. “Once I had the stroke and realized how insignificant I was, how helpless I was by myself, my life did change,” said Causey. “Things that were once extremely important, they’re just not that important anymore.” A few years after the stroke, Causey found himself in church, listening to a medley fusion of “Amazing Grace” and “My Chains Are Gone,” and it acted like a shock to his system, driving him to prayer that he’d one INSIGHT May 2016 15