ODB: Investing in Others

When a corporation offered one thousand frequent-flier miles for every ten purchases of one of their foods, one man realized their cheapest product was individual cups of chocolate pudding. He bought more than twelve thousand.
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God’s Good Gifts

My friend Rosie is an amazing person. Born without arms, she’s refused to believe her life need be limited.
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ODB: Pride and Deception

Loving God, thank You for Your gentle, nudging correction. With my shoulders slumped, I murmured those difficult words.
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The Spirit’s Work Within

One day, I noticed my bird feeder hanging in the distance and remembered it had been some time since I’d refilled it. Walking over and reaching for the refill cap, I stopped as I noticed the interior of the feeder had been taken over by a wasp’s nest.
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ODB: Divine Tenderness

I once heard a businessman describe his years in college as a time when he often felt “helpless and hopeless” from bouts of depression. Sadly, he never talked to a doctor about these feelings, but instead started making more drastic plans
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ODB: God’s Moves

I love a good game of Scrabble. After one particular game, my friends named a move after me—calling it a “Katara.”
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ODB: Faith Conversations at Home

“There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home.” Those unforgettable lines spoken by Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz reveal a story-telling device found in an overwhelming number of our most enduring stories from the likes of Star Wars to The Lion King.
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It’s Only Money

Grigori Perelman won the Millennium Prize from the Clay Mathematics Institute for solving a problem that had stumped mathematicians for a century. When told that the prize came with a $1 million award, Grigori, a reclusive genius who lives with his elderly mother in Russia, said that he would need to think about whether to accept the money.
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ODB: Time Enough

When I saw the massive volume of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace on my friend’s bookshelf, I confessed, “I’ve never actually made it all the way through that.”