Monica A. Andermann (New York)
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Sign Up TodayThe Lord said to Samuel . . . “People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” - 1 Samuel 16:7 (NIV)
I put down the thin-skinned, brown-spotted orange and picked up a perfect, round navel orange. “Don’t be fooled by its looks,” a fellow shopper advised. “The thin-skinned orange will be sweeter and juicier than the navel orange.” Largely to appease the other shopper, I took one of each. Yet, after...
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