As I sit here in my church office trying to rewrite and rework this short story about a church robbery I started feeling guilty. Guilty because I am writing about robbing a church, and anxious because the final draft is due at midnight. I hope you like it. The door opened and a short, unkept man with a hand-me-down suit walked in shuffling what he assumed was his case file.

Katherine Bowden, the wife of my friend Jim, had a stroke the day after Thanksgiving. As Jim explains it in his blog. She has passed the first two hurdles. She has survived the initial event and the bleeding has stopped. Her next hurdle is to awake from her coma. I invite my fellow believers to pray for Katherine and her family. At your word alone a.