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How do you multiply a miracle?

BY GLORIA YODER

The days I have been waiting on are coming into reality. Ah, the wonder of spring days! There is nothing quite like those first days of sunshine, warm enough to warm your body and your heart. Somehow to me it just feels like God’s love gently shining down on me. It won’t take care of all things in life but it helps me connect to the love of God who makes all things well despite the difficult dimensions.

The professional bicycling team from Bahrain, a country in the Persian Gulf, is needing specialized tires for their upcoming race to get rolling on gravel roads. Where do they get such tires?

Over one hundred years ago, the gold mining industry of South Africa had a problem: too many workers were dying from pneumonia. They turned to Dr. Almorth Wright, a British physician who had successfully created a vaccine against typhoid fever that saved countless lives of British soldiers in World War I and other wars. Wright and his colleagues developed an inoculation of killed pneumococci bacteria which resulted in a substantial reduction of cases of pneumonia and death in the miners.

Spring has sprung a little early this year! Weather like this makes weeds happy! Also, it is time to get the pre-emergent crabgrass preventer on your lawn!

Twelve thousand people are gathered at the finish line as bicyclists pass through the iconic arch that marks the finish of a grueling race. These cyclists literally come from all over the world to participate in this remarkable event – which takes place in rural Kansas.

I looked around the circle of little faces in the living room as we read our evening Bible story. There was nothing in me that wanted to leave them for four days, but then when I thought of my mother-in-law in Mexico who planned to do surgery for her cancer and needed someone to be with her, it changed the picture; yes, I also wanted to go.