
ODB: Hopeless Cases
The situation looked hopeless for Amy and Alan’s infant daughter Jem. Born with a condition called trisomy-18, she was expected to die within days or weeks.

ODB: What Your Father Wants
Steve grabbed his chainsaw and headed out to the woods. That’s when he heard five-year-old August. “Wait for me, Dad! I want to come!”

ODB: Standing Firm in Faith
On my walk to catch the train to work a few years ago, I saw a woman with a ferocious-looking dog heading toward me.

ODB: A Generous Heart
When soccer star Sadio Mané from Senegal was playing for Liverpool in the English Premier League, he was one of the world’s highest-paid African players, making millions of dollars per year.

ODB: Stay Ready
Betty is ready. She began following Jesus as a teenager and has taken opportunities her whole life to serve and please Him.

ODB: Planning Prudently
Small-town physician Ezdan nurtured a grand dream for his young daughter Eleanor. She has Down syndrome, and he hoped to open a business to provide paid work for her future.

ODB: Heart Surgery
Some years ago, after exchanging heated words, Carolyn and I resolved our conflict through compassion and love for each other.

ODB: Language of Love
Mon Dieu. Lieber Gott. Drahý Bože. Aγαπητέ Θεέ. Dear God.

ODB: As One
A seemingly plain table with thirteen simple cups divided across separate panels make up the contemporary painting, “That They May All Be One,” which hangs in Wolfson College at Oxford University.

ODB: No Wasted Pain
She looked into my eyes and said, “Don’t waste your pain.” My mind immediately returned to the time years prior when I’d led the memorial service for her young adult son whose life was taken in a car accident.

ODB: The Gift of Giving
In his 2024 address to 1,200 university graduates, billionaire businessman Robert Hale Jr. said, “These trying times have heightened the need for sharing, caring and giving.

ODB: ’Tis a Fearful Thing
“Tis a fearful thing / to love what death can touch.” That line begins a poem written more than a thousand years ago by the Jewish poet Judah Halevi, translated in the twentieth century.

ODB: Unbroken Faith
When Dianne Dokko Kim and her husband learned that their son’s diagnosis was autism, she struggled with the very real possibility that her cognitively disabled son might outlive her.

ODB: Winning by Losing
“Not winning is in fact more powerful than winning,” Professor Monica Wadhwa argues.