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The answer must be in the Bible, Joel Haler’s father told him. Of course, the minister’s son was used to that response—he’d heard it often in his 20 years, though what he read didn’t always make sense to him.

 

Still, Joel rolled his wheelchair up to the kitchen table and flipped the pages of his Bible to the Book of Job. Chapter 23: “Then Job answered: ‘Today also my complaint is bitter, his hand is heavy in spite of my groaning….’”

 

Joel read the chapter through twice, considering every word. A bitter complaint? He knew all about that. Yet it wasn’t the answer he was seeking.

 

His father urged him to keep looking, searching for the meaning of the message Joel believed he’d been sent. The mysterious code that seemed to offer Joel the promise of walking again: J23.

 

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