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The Turning That Makes Us Grow

Young sunflowers do something remarkable. From dawn to dusk, they track the sun across the sky, turning their faces from east to west in a...

Universalobedience

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The Slave Infant God Never Lost Sight Of

In January 1865, night riders swept onto Moses Carver's farm in Diamond, Missouri, and stole a sickly infant named George along with his mother, Mary....

Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18Universal

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What Your Cells Already Know About Calling

Every cell in your body carries the same complete blueprint — roughly twenty thousand genes, identical from head to toe. A cell in your retina...

Universalpurpose

237 words

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When the Wolves Came Home to Yellowstone

In 1995, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released fourteen gray wolves into Yellowstone National Park. Wolves had been absent for nearly seventy years, and...

Universalrestoration

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The Cure Inside the Venom

At the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, technicians carefully milk venom from pit vipers and coral snakes — drop by deadly drop. That venom,...

John 3:13-17Universal

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The Farmer's Almanac on Margaret's Kitchen Table

Every March, Margaret Calloway of Boone County, Kentucky, set her worn Farmer's Almanac on the kitchen windowsill and planned her garden by the sun. She...

James 1:17Universal

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The Washerwoman Who Gave Away a Fortune

In 1995, Oseola McCarty of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, walked into the University of Southern Mississippi and donated one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for scholarships. She...

Psalm 112:1-10Universal

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The Enzyme That Repairs With Light

In the 1950s, molecular biologists discovered something remarkable inside living cells: an enzyme called photolyase that repairs damaged DNA using nothing but light. When ultraviolet...

Universalforgiveness

241 words

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Born Twice in the Same Body

In 2008, biologist Martha Weiss at Georgetown University confirmed something remarkable about caterpillar metamorphosis. Inside the chrysalis, a caterpillar does not simply sprout wings. Its...

Universaltransformation

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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

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The Hum Only the Beekeeper Could Name

In the apiaries outside Asheville, North Carolina, a retired schoolteacher named Margaret Whitfield spent her first summer as an apprentice beekeeper convinced she would never...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

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The Trickle at Moriah Chapel

In the autumn of 1904, a twenty-six-year-old Welsh coal miner named Evan Roberts asked his pastor if he could address the young people after a...

Ezekiel 47:1-2, 8-9, 12Universal

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The Road Waze Knows

Every morning, millions of commuters open Waze on their phones and face a small act of trust. The app analyzes real-time traffic data from other...

Universalobedience

254 words

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Where the Sick Came to See

In the early sixteenth century, the German painter Matthias Grünewald was commissioned to create an altarpiece for the Monastery of St. Anthony in Isenheim, Alsace....

Universalhealing

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The Night Margaret Stopped Running

Margaret Chen had tried everything. Three attorneys, two appeals, and eighteen months of fighting the wrongful foreclosure on her family's home in Decatur, Georgia. Every...

Exodus 14:13-14Universal

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The Figure Already in the Stone

When Michelangelo stood before a raw block of Carrara marble, he did not see emptiness. He saw a person waiting to emerge. He once described...

Universalidentity

246 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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Corrie ten Boom and the Father Who Walked Into Darkness

In February 1944, the Gestapo raided the ten Boom home in Haarlem, Holland, arresting the entire family for harboring Jewish refugees. Corrie ten Boom's elderly...

Isaiah 63:7-9Universal

229 words

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The Cells That Die So the Body Can Live

In 2004, researcher Arturo Zychlinsky at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin discovered something remarkable about how our bodies fight infection. When neutrophils — the...

Universalsacrifice

225 words

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The Neural Anatomy of Courage

In 2010, neuroscientist Dr. Yadin Dudai and his team at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel conducted a remarkable study on fear and courage....

Universalcourage

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The Weight of a Touch

In the 1980s, Dr. Tiffany Field at the University of Miami founded the Touch Research Institute after observing something remarkable in neonatal intensive care units....

Universallove

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The Song That Answered the Prophet

Jeremiah asked a question born of despair: "Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?" The prophet looked at a broken nation...

Universalhealing

243 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 Player Who Refused to Retaliate

In 1947, when Jackie Robinson stepped onto Ebbets Field as the first Black player in Major League Baseball, the abuse was relentless. Opposing players spiked...

Universalforgiveness

245 words