
ODB: Be Prepared to Share
The teenager stood her ground. While her high school group was visiting a home for people in rehab from addictions, Claire engaged in conversation with a twentysomething man who towered over her in size.

ODB: Our Future with Christ
Visiting Switzerland had been my dad’s lifelong dream. After his diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia, my mom decided to go with him while he was still physically able.

ODB: God’s Glory and Majesty
The ceiling of London’s Banqueting House is magnificent. Painted by Sir Peter Paul Rubens between 1629 and 1634, it was commissioned by King Charles I to glorify his family’s reign.

ODB: Reciprocal Generosity
When Melanie began having regular headaches, her doctors discovered she had a benign tumor in her pituitary gland.

ODB: Remembering Who We Are
A restaurant employee discovered an unconscious man beside a dumpster. He was sunburned, bitten by ants, and showed signs of blunt force trauma.

ODB: God’s Provision
I was putting my grandson to bed during a sleepover. When his Bible bookmark opened to Psalm 23, he objected, “We already read this one.”

ODB: Running to God in Prayer
One moment Adrián Simancas was kayaking in the Strait of Magellan in Chile with his father.

ODB: Freedom in God’s Love
If you’ve ever heard the expression “albatross around my neck”—a phrase referring to a tiresome burden—you’ve heard an allusion to English poet Samuel Coleridge’s famous poem “Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

ODB: The Power of Music
On November 21, 1915, the hope of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his twenty-seven crew members sank, along with their ship Endurance, into the darkness below the Antarctic ice.
