Woman donates kidney to man who received her husband's kidney: The transforming consequences of character
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR JUNE 29, 2020
A woman donated a kidney to a man who received her deceased husband's kidney sixteen years earlier. Today's podcast tells her story, then we focus on ways character bears consequences in this life and the next, closing with God's call to transformative encounters with his holiness.
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| 0:00.0 | 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 |
| 0:12.5 | thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.2 | When Brian Harrington died 16 years ago, his donated organs saved the lives of four people. |
| 0:26.5 | One of them was Jeffrey Granger, who received Brian's kidney and pancreas. |
| 0:31.5 | He and Brian's wife, Terry, became friends over the years. |
| 0:35.4 | Brian's kidney and Jeffrey failed last year. Terry immediately |
| 0:39.0 | volunteered to donate her own kidney, which is now implanted in Jeffrey. The surgeon who operated |
| 0:45.1 | on Terry said that it's common for donated kidneys that fail to remain in transplant patients |
| 0:51.1 | even after new ones are in place. As a result, Terry's kidney is sitting next to the kidney donated by her late husband. |
| 0:59.5 | Terry says, we are back together. |
| 1:04.6 | Character brings consequences. |
| 1:07.2 | Last Friday, I sent this tweet. |
| 1:09.2 | Great news, NASA to name D.C. headquarters after Hidden Figure |
| 1:13.9 | Mary W. Jackson, their first African-American female engineer. Jackson began her career in the |
| 1:20.6 | segregated unit of the agency's Langley Research Center, where she became known as one of the human |
| 1:26.2 | computers. Hers was one of the stories |
| 1:28.6 | featured in Hidden Figures, the American Dream and the untold story of the black women mathematicians |
| 1:34.5 | who helped win the space race. The book became a popular movie, I highly recommend. In 2019, |
| 1:41.9 | Jackson was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. |
| 1:45.8 | Her daughter said of NASA's decision, |
| 1:48.0 | We are honored that NASA continues to celebrate the legacy of our mother and grandmother, Mary W. Jackson. |
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