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During President Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony in Washington on Monday, he reminded everyone that God spared his life when a bullet grazed his ear during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania last July. Trump has the scar to prove he would be dead today if he hadn’t turned his head to the right just as the gun was fired.

“Just a few months ago in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin’s bullet ripped through my ear,” Trump proclaimed in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. “But I felt then and believe so now that my life was saved for a reason. I was saved by God to make America great again.”

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As Trump delivered his address, my eyes were drawn to a woman wearing a red shirt and a gold cross. She was seated among the dignitaries behind the president, but she’s neither a politician nor a famous billionaire. Her name is Beverly Aikins, and she is the mother of J.D. Vance, who on Monday became vice president of the United States.

Aikins’ story isn’t as well known as Trump’s, but like him, she is a walking miracle. On Jan. 19, the day before her 40-year-old son was sworn into office by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Aikins celebrated 10 years of sobriety from drug addiction.

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Her presence on the stage on Inauguration Day served as a powerful reminder that Vance himself is also a walking miracle.

When he was born in 1984 in Middletown, Ohio, his parents were already in a rocky relationship, and his dad abandoned the family when Vance was a toddler. His mother and his maternal grandparents, James and Bonnie Vance, raised him—but the future vice president and his sister struggled because of their mother’s drug habit.

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J. Lee Grady is an author, award-winning journalist and ordained minister. He served as a news writer and magazine editor for many years before launching into full-time ministry. Lee is the author of six books, including 10 Lies the Church Tells Women, 10 Lies Men Believe and Fearless Daughters of the Bible. His years at Charisma magazine also gave him a unique perspective of the Spirit-filled church and led him to write The Holy Spirit Is Not for Sale and Set My Heart on Fire, which is a Bible study on the work of the Holy Spirit.

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