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The Music That Came from Ruin

In the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a man undone. At fifty-six, he had suffered a stroke that left his right side partially...

Universalfaith

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The Altarpiece Nobody Wanted to Look Away From

In 1516, the German painter Matthias Grünewald completed the Isenheim Altarpiece for a monastery hospital in Alsace, France. The monks there cared for patients suffering...

Universalsacrifice

216 words

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When Peace Like a River Runs Through Grief

In 1873, Horatio Spafford put his wife and four daughters on the SS Ville du Havre, bound for England. He planned to follow soon after....

Universalhope

236 words

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Blessed Assurance in the Dark

Fanny Crosby was six weeks old when a country doctor's failed treatment destroyed her sight permanently. She would never see a sunrise, never read a...

Universaltrust

248 words

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The Song He Could Not Hear

By 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven was almost completely deaf. He had spent years withdrawing from society, humiliated by a condition that robbed him of the...

Universalhope

256 words

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The Warmth That Saves

In 1978, at the Instituto Materno Infantil in Bogotá, Colombia, Dr. Edgar Rey Sanabria faced a crisis. His neonatal ward lacked enough incubators for the...

Universallove

234 words

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The Father's Hands

In the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg hangs one of Rembrandt's final paintings — *The Return of the Prodigal Son*, completed around 1668. The canvas...

Universalforgiveness

244 words

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Painting with Scissors

In 1941, Henri Matisse was seventy-one years old and recovering from surgery that left him largely confined to a wheelchair or bed. The man who...

Universalfreedom

242 words

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The Light That Repairs What Darkness Breaks

In 1949, biophysicist Albert Kelner stumbled onto something remarkable. He noticed that bacteria whose DNA had been shattered by ultraviolet radiation could somehow repair themselves...

Universalredemption

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The Seed That Refused to Give Up

In 2005, Dr. Sarah Sallon and Dr. Elaine Solowey did something botanists considered impossible. They germinated a date palm seed that had been buried in...

Universalhope

234 words

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From Ruin to Hallelujah

In the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. The composer who had once captivated London was now drowning in debt, his...

Universaltransformation

234 words

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The Thread That Holds Us Together

In 2009, molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn won the Nobel Prize for her research on telomeres — the protective caps at the ends of our chromosomes....

Universallove

241 words

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The Unfolding

On Christmas Day 2021, NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope into space. After twenty-five years of development, delays, and budget overruns, the most powerful...

Universalpatience

239 words

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The Composer Nobody Remembered

In 1741, George Frideric Handel was a man the world had finished with. The composer who once filled London's grandest concert halls was now fifty-six,...

Universalidentity

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The Strongest Place in the Bone

In orthopedic medicine, there is a remarkable fact about fractures. When a bone breaks, the body immediately begins an intricate repair process. Blood rushes to...

Universalrestoration

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When Peace Like a River Was Born from Grief

In November 1873, Horatio Spafford stood at the railing of a ship crossing the Atlantic, staring into cold, dark water. Weeks earlier, he had put...

Universalfaith

245 words

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The Dragon Skin He Couldn't Shed

In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, a boy named Eustace Scrubb becomes a dragon. His greed and selfishness have literally transformed him...

Universalidentity

231 words

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Uncovering the Original

In 1978, restorers began the painstaking work of saving Leonardo da Vinci's *The Last Supper* in Milan. The masterpiece had been crumbling for centuries —...

Universalrestoration

253 words

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The Hymn That Cost Her Everything

In February 1874, Frances Ridley Havergal arrived at a friend's home for a short visit. She was already an accomplished musician and poet, but that...

Universalobedience

238 words

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The Altarpiece That Opens

In the early sixteenth century, the German painter Matthias Grunewald completed one of the most extraordinary works in the history of Christian art — the...

Universalhope

235 words

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The Hymn Writer Who Never Saw a Sunset

Fanny Crosby lost her sight at six weeks old when a man posing as a doctor applied hot poultices to her infected eyes. She would...

Universalperseverance

245 words

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The Enzymes of Grace

Every single day, the DNA inside each of your cells sustains between ten thousand and one hundred thousand points of damage — from sunlight, from...

Universalforgiveness

248 words

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The Brushstrokes of a Brave Woman

In 1620, the Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi completed her masterpiece, *Judith Slaying Holofernes*. Where other artists of her era depicted Judith as delicate and detached...

Universalcourage

240 words

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The Deepest Trust in Empty Skies

In 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that many of his colleagues thought was reckless. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he...

Universaltrust

247 words