An attorney visited a jeweler and received a new kidney: The power of working on purpose
The Daily Article
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🗓️ 7 September 2020
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR SEPTEMBER 07, 2020
A jeweler named Jennifer Pratt recently donated a kidney to a customer. Today's podcast tells their remarkable story, then we focus on reframing the purpose of work in a way that empowers our labor and changes our culture.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit |
| 0:12.5 | thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:20.0 | Erin Wiley and his wife Erle went to his favorite jeweler in May to get a diamond necklace |
| 0:25.6 | upgraded. |
| 0:26.6 | Their jeweler, Jennifer Pratt of J. Pratt designs, helped them select a new motif for her necklace. |
| 0:33.6 | The next day, Jennifer offered them something else, her kidney. During their design appointment, she asked Aaron if he would like a glass of water. |
| 0:41.7 | Erle said, he can't have any more water. He's on dialysis and has to restrict his intake. |
| 0:47.6 | She had donated a kidney to her husband in 2008, but it failed in 2017, and he had been forced to live on dialysis. Aaron, a private |
| 0:57.4 | practice attorney, continued to work, timing his travel schedule around four-hour dialysis treatments |
| 1:03.4 | every other night. Jennifer told a reporter that when she learned of Aaron's plight, I went home and |
| 1:09.0 | told my husband, I'm going to try and give Aaron my kidney. |
| 1:12.9 | She added, we were living a peaceful life, drinking wine and enjoying the pool in our backyard, |
| 1:18.9 | and Aaron was in dialysis three or four times a week. I thought, this is something I can do to |
| 1:24.5 | fix that problem. I can make life better for him. |
| 1:28.1 | Rigorous testing showed that she was a perfect match. On August 25th, she gave one of her |
| 1:33.7 | kidneys to Aaron during a four-hour transplant surgery at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, |
| 1:39.8 | Texas, where she and the Wiles live. She and Aaron are now recovering at home. Erle says, |
| 1:46.3 | Jennifer is proof that there truly are angels on earth. She's a person of action who never |
| 1:52.3 | wavered. We'll never be able to thank her enough. |
| 1:58.1 | Labor Day is the first Monday in September. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, this day is |
| 2:04.2 | dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. Some of these achievements |
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