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

Kieran Moisei has always been known for what the Washington Post describes as a stunning

afro that stood high and wide above his head.

For the last six years, he has not cut or trimmed it because, as his mother explained,

he really hated haircuts.

When Kieran was accepted to the Air Force Academy,

he knew he would have to cut his now 19-inch afro. He lost a close friend to cancer

when Kieran was in the eighth grade, so he decided to make his hair cutting into a

fundraiser for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, and donate his hair to children

with hair loss, a Michigan nonprofit that provides free human hair wigs to children and young

adults facing medically related hair loss. Both plans came to fruition. His hair was mailed to the

children's hair charity, and the fundraiser ultimately brought

in more than $38,000 for St. Jude's.

Kieran is now at the Academy, where his mother says, he's going to do great things.

I have no doubt.

One of the ways God redeems all he allows is by using past suffering to make us more

sensitive to present needs and future opportunities to help others.

The loss of Kieran's friend to cancer led him to do what he could for cancer patients.

When we use our suffering to serve, we become what Henry Noan called wounded healers, and our story

touches more lives than we may know. Here's another example in the news. Comedian Pete Davidson

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