From @FWMission ... Friday Story: “Gift of Grace”

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Friday Story: “Gift of Grace”

Seventeen years ago, in a small town in the Peruvian Andes, the Mora family welcomed their first child—a baby boy whom they named Johan, which means “God is gracious.”

They were a happy young family, and all seemed well for a while.

However, Johan’s parents noticed that he wasn’t developing the way they’d expected. They took him to a doctor, who diagnosed him with a rare illness called Osteogenesis Imperfecta, also known as “brittle bone disease” ...

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