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

Doris Crippin, age 73, was recently diagnosed with COVID-19 and became a patient at a

rehabilitation center in Nebraska.

Bev Borough, a medication aide, has worked at the facility for more than two decades.

Last month, Bev was looking over her patient list when she recognized Doris's name.

She was shocked. Doris is her older sister, though the two have not seen each other in more than

50 years. The two share a father, but were born to different mothers. Doris was raised by her mother

and stepfather, and was 20 years old when she last saw

Bev.

The women knew each other's names and spent years searching for each other without success.

Then the pandemic brought them together.

Despite the suffering Doris has endured, she told a reporter, I am the happiest person in the

world.

I cannot believe I found my sister.

We all love stories that have such happy endings, especially during days of pandemic pain and

economic suffering. But what do we do with stories that don't end so well? With family members

and friends who don't recover from this horrible disease, with prayers that seem unanswered.

N.T. Wright, one of the most profound theologians of our generation,

notes that Lament is a central part of our faith.

Psalms that express anger, frustration, and pain to God are in Scripture for a reason. Some of them, as Wright observes,

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