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The Daily Article

Family finds the dog that saved them from a tornado: Surprising someone with God’s compassion today

The Daily Article

The Denison Forum

Christianity, News, Daily News, Religion & Spirituality

4.9576 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR APRIL 30, 2020

A dog that saved her family from a tornado in Tennessee has finally been found. Today's podcast tells her story, then we focus on surprising ways we can help hurting people in hard times for eternal good.

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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 thedailyarticle.com.

0:14.7

Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

0:19.4

Eric Johnson was asleep on March 3rd when Bella, the family's six-year-old miniature

0:24.7

Australian Shepherd, woke him up. She was behaving erratically, giving him the sense that

0:29.8

something just didn't feel right. He turned on the television to learn that a tornado was headed

0:34.9

toward his town of Cookville, Tennessee.

0:40.4

He put his wife and their three children in a bathtub,

0:43.9

and was looking for Bella when the tornado struck their house.

0:45.5

Their home was destroyed.

0:48.0

Johnson was thrown into his backyard.

0:51.8

He suffered a head injury, and his wife had broken ribs.

0:55.9

Bella was thrown into the yard and survived, but then went missing.

0:58.2

Their family searched for her for weeks.

1:03.9

A church friend and dog tracker finally found her in an alley four miles from their home.

1:07.6

Johnson, his brother-in-law, and their pastor helped retrieve her.

1:12.8

After 54 days of living on her own, Bella was reunited with her family.

1:21.9

Help in hard times often comes from unexpected places. Delivery robots are bringing goods and medical supplies to hospitals and others in need, while helping support workers remain safe.

1:28.1

Socially distanced people are using drones to deliver flowers, give virtual tours of

1:33.3

quarantine cities, and even walk their dogs. Turkey, which has become far more dictatorial

1:39.3

and undemocratic in recent years, nevertheless has vowed solidarity with the United States during the pandemic.

1:46.3

They recently sent 500,000 surgical masks, 4,000 overalls, 2,000 liters of disinfectant,

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