The Bee That Already Stung
On a warm afternoon in late August, a beekeeper named Margaret was checking her hives when a honeybee landed on her bare forearm. She didn't...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on 1 Corinthians 15:55-57.
On a warm afternoon in late August, a beekeeper named Margaret was checking her hives when a honeybee landed on her bare forearm. She didn't flinch. She knew something most people don't: this particular bee had already stung someone earlier that morning. And a honeybee, once it drives its barbed stinger into flesh, loses that stinger entirely. The venom sac tears away.…
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