With stories of terrorist plots, gas prices exploding upward, and summer busyness coming to an end, just when you think it’s OK to go outside, to let your kids go outside, you hear this story .The passport of Natascha Kampusch (pictured here) was found at the house where she was allegedly imprisoned and the woman had the same distinctive scar as the girl.
DNA test results are due later on Thursday which Austrian police expect will confirm the woman's identity. The schoolgirl's disappearance at the age of 10 had sparked a huge manhunt eight years ago.
I don’t want to dwell on the unconscionable, unbelievable evil that would possess someone to keep a child captive for 8 years. But I do want to end with an ordinary (but really extra-ordinary) instance of living out our faith. Hopefully these kind of examples balance out the evil world we live in.
At lunch today, a friend from church said that over this past year he has made some conscious choices. The first one was to make his business decisions based more on integrity. He said he always acted this way but was becoming more aware that he needed to stay diligent. He also said that he has recommitted to giving of himself, his gifts and his resources to church and to taking care of his family. There it is; faith lived out every day. Nothing extraordinary, but maybe it is. Maybe it needs to be.
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