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The First Harvest

For seven years, Maria Nguyen's family ate from white cardboard boxes. Every Tuesday at the resettlement center in Portland, Oregon, volunteers handed out canned vegetables,...

Joshua 5:9-12Universal

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The Cells That Never Stop Mending

Every day, inside your body, something remarkable is happening. Your DNA — the microscopic code that makes you who you are — sustains tens of...

Universalperseverance

236 words

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The Chemistry of Starting Over

In 2015, Swedish scientist Tomas Lindahl shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a discovery that had puzzled researchers for decades: how our DNA repairs...

Universalforgiveness

234 words

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Stripped Down to Who You Really Are

In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, a boy named Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's hoard of treasure, and wakes up...

Universalidentity

243 words

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The Dragon Skin Only Aslan Could Remove

In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the boy Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's hoard and wakes to discover he has...

Universalhealing

232 words

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Seeds Stored for a Harvest They Would Never See

In 1941, as German forces encircled Leningrad, the scientists at the Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry faced an unthinkable test. Inside their walls sat one...

Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15Universal

224 words

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The Doctor Who Swallowed the Evidence

In 1984, Dr. Barry Marshall faced a medical establishment that refused to believe him. He and his colleague Dr. Robin Warren had discovered that stomach...

Universalcourage

217 words

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The Word That Walked Through the Door

When Dr. Margaret Chen arrived in the remote Hmong village of Ban Nam Hia in northern Laos, she had already spent three years studying the...

John 1:1-14Universal

256 words

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The Hands That Wouldn't Wash

In 1847, a young Hungarian physician named Ignaz Semmelweis made a disturbing discovery at Vienna General Hospital. Women in the maternity ward staffed by doctors...

Universalhumility

240 words

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The Geneticist Who Knew Every Kernel

In the 1930s, Barbara McClintock spent her days at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, bent over ears of corn. While other scientists dismissed...

Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18Universal

248 words

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The Nerve Endings of the Soul

In the mid-twentieth century, British surgeon Dr. Paul Brand made a discovery that changed how the world understood leprosy. Working with patients in Vellore, India,...

Universalfaith

252 words

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The Parking Lot at Pine Grove

When Marcus walked out of Pine Grove Recovery Center after twenty-eight days, he expected an empty parking lot. He had burned through every relationship he...

Mark 1:4-11Universal

241 words

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When a Coal Town Taught the World to Love

Bill Withers grew up in Slab Fork, West Virginia, a tiny coal mining town where nobody had much of anything. He had a stutter that...

Universallove

247 words

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I Feel the Bottom, and It Is Good

In John Bunyan's *The Pilgrim's Progress*, Christian and his companion Hopeful finally reach the last obstacle before the Celestial City — a deep, dark river...

Universalfaith

226 words

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The Bravest Person I Ever Knew

In Harper Lee's *To Kill a Mockingbird*, Atticus Finch tells his son something that catches the boy completely off guard. After the death of Mrs....

Universalcourage

240 words

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The Underground Network That Feeds Every Tree

In 1997, forest ecologist Suzanne Simard discovered something remarkable beneath the floor of a British Columbia forest. Hidden under the soil, a vast web of...

Joel 2:28-29Universal

229 words

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The Bamboo That Waited

Chinese bamboo is one of the most remarkable lessons in patience the natural world has to offer. A farmer plants the seed, waters it, and...

Universalpatience

257 words

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The Signature on the Blueprint

In 1943, a small congregation in Birmingham, Alabama gathered in a borrowed basement to plan their first church building. They had no architect, no contractor,...

Nehemiah 2:20Universal

216 words

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The Dragon Who Needed Undressing

In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the insufferable boy Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's hoard and wakes up transformed into...

Universalidentity

224 words

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The Frescoes No One Was Meant to See

In the 1440s, a Dominican friar named Fra Angelico received an assignment from his prior: paint the walls of the monks' cells at the Convent...

Universalobedience

235 words

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The Chemistry of Belonging

In 2012, researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden discovered something remarkable about oxytocin, the hormone often called "the bonding chemical." When a parent holds...

Universallove

239 words

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The Password You Never Have to Remember

Every year, the average person manages over 100 passwords. We forget them constantly. We lock ourselves out of bank accounts, email, even our own phones....

Universaltrust

232 words

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The Coach Who Never Stopped Calling

Every Thursday evening for eleven years, retired cross-country coach Dave Simmons of Flagstaff, Arizona, dialed the same six phone numbers. His former runners had scattered...

1 Thessalonians 3:9-13Universal

231 words

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The Path Only One Could See

In C.S. Lewis's *Prince Caspian*, the four Pevensie children are lost in the wilderness, trying to find their way to the rightful king. Then Lucy...

Universalobedience

243 words