God is busily involved in the messiness of our lives! This is celebrated most wonderfully in Psalm 139, where we are taught to pray, ‘O Lord … it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb’.

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Most people only ever face the question of whether to become an organ donor when they renew their driver’s licence. A few confront it when close relatives suffer kidney failure. Hardly anybody decides they have excess kidneys and volunteers to donate one to a needy stranger.

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Geoff Forrest has had more experience with organ donation than most people. The retired Lutheran college teacher not only became a living donor for his son in 2009 but then, six years later, also had the heartbreaking task of deciding on organ donations from his wife, when she died suddenly.

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