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Brant Hansen, writing from Afghanistan:

Zakara has so many strikes against her. Enough strikes for a full nine innings of strikeouts. This game, quite honestly, should be over.

But it's not over.

And this is why I love God.

I got to do "Kangaroo Duty" with this little one for an hour this morning. Apparently, it helps little ones like Zakara to be held, skin-to-skin, and feel the warmth of another human. Zakara is two months old, and, remarkably, 2.5 pounds. As I held her, I could look into her eyes, and wide-open, they are the size of my shirt's button holes. Her shoulders are smaller than the knuckle of my index finger. Her fingernails are tinier than -- I don't know -- crumbs?

And she's already had surgery. CURE International's doctors helped heal her intestines, and, in a land with one of the highest infant mortality rates on the planet, where almost no newborns get medical care, this one is alive, thanks to this hospital. And the Lord, who does not shy away from longshots. Not even close.

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