Millard Reed is president-emeritus of Trevecca University in Nashville. Millard was on a speaking trip in South Carolina when he suddenly fell ill and was rushed to the hospital. His liver had just stopped functioning. His system was shutting down. The doctors said he would die. But a lot of people prayed for Millard, and when the doctors found a new liver for him and installed it, he began to recover.

One day, when Millard was back in Nashville at home, he was feeling a little depressed and he decided to go for a walk around his neighborhood. It was springtime and there were flowers growing in a neighbor's yard. Millard stopped to look at them. A bumblebee was buzzing from one blossom to another. Millard knew about bumblebees and how aerodynamically challenged they are, with those heavy, cumbersome bodies and the tiny, insubstantial little wings. But suddenly this bumblebee did something truly amazing. It headed straight at Millard. And then before it got to him, it suddenly did a perfect loop-de-loop, like a stunt plane, and went back to the flower where it had started!

This took Millard totally by surprise. He remembered the Book of Job, and how God at one point had asked Job if he could give a horse its strength or a hawk take flight or make any of the other magnificent creatures God that God had put in the world. Millard said he could almost hear God saying aloud to him, "Millard, if I could make that crazy bumblebee do that, I could give you a new liver." And Millard began to cry. He was still crying when he went back to his house a few minutes later. His wife was alarmed. She thought something was wrong. "Oh no, honey," Millard said, "these aren't tears of sadness, these are tears of joy. I am so happy to be alive in God's beautiful world!"