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NBA Hall of Fame player Magic Johnson contracted HIV 30 years ago. He recently

marked the anniversary of his diagnosis by stating, I thank the Lord for keeping me, giving me strength,

and guiding me for 62 years, but especially the last 30.

Now an outspoken Christian, Johnson stepped down as president of basketball operations for the Los Angeles Lakers in 2019, so he and his wife could devote more time to their church.

It's truly a blessing when you know what direction you're going in, he said.

I wanted to begin today's daily article with this good news in order to frame the tragic

story everyone is following. An SUV plowed through a Christmas parade in Wisconsin on Sunday.

As of this writing, five have died and 48 were injured.

Authorities have charged Daryl Brooks, a Milwaukee man with a criminal history dating back to 1999,

with five counts of first-degree intentional homicide.

One father told reporters, there were pom-poms in shoes and spilled hot chocolate everywhere.

I had to go from one crumpled body to the other to find my daughter.

He added, my wife and two daughters were almost hit.

Please pray for everybody. Please pray.

In other news, a school bus carrying members of a high school band collided last Friday with a pickup truck traveling the wrong way on Interstate 20 in Big Spring, a town in West Texas.

The band director was killed, as were the drivers of the bus and the pickup truck.

Two of the 25 students on the bus were taken to a Lubbock hospital

in critical condition. I have never been to Milwaukee, but I have traveled that stretch of I-20

dozens of times over the years, the last just a few days ago. I played in the high school band,

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