Welcome to a bonus episode of the Daily Article podcast by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins.

Today's bonus episode is titled, Web Telescope suffers uncorrectable damage from micrometeroid hit.

The James Webb Telescope has been in the news for weeks.

Its images are stunning, almost beyond verbal description,

and its potential for space exploration and understanding appears to be unprecedented. However,

there's a downside to its remarkable design. Its gold-plated, flower-shaped mirror is the largest

and most expensive ever sent into space. And now one of its 18

segments has suffered significant, uncorrectable damage due to a micrometeroid that impacted the

telescope in May. A micrometeroid is a particle smaller than a grain of sand. The good news is

that engineers were able to realign Webb's other segments to adjust for the damage.

Closer to home, zebra and quagga mussels are spreading through U.S. rivers, lakes and bays.

They are only the size of a fingernail, but they are clogging water supply pipes and altering the food web.

Both stories illustrate the fact that tiny objects can affect massive objects.

The same is spiritually true.

Doubts can affect and afflict faith in ways that weaken our relationship with God,

hinder our witness, and undermine our ministry.

To be sure, doubts are an essential part of faith.

Frederick Beakner calls them the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

From Job to Jesus, the most innocent people in Scripture have some of the gravest doubts.

It's normal to have questions about any relationship, including our relationship with God.

It is not helpful, however, to allow our doubts to linger without addressing them.

The longer we accumulate like muscles on the hulls of our souls,

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