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SAINTS USE PIZZA

When you think of saints, you think of incense and bandages, inspirational speeches and great acts of bravery.

You don’t often think of pizza. Maybe you should.

I know this Christian lady who has a number of stresses of her own, who still is reaching out to a troubled teenager she knows, and giving him a 16th birthday party in her home.

His dad is angry, abusive and abandoning. His mom is overwhelmed, depressed, and barely keeping her nose above deep water. Divorce is imminent. There is no money, certainly none for parties.

My friend realized that she has the ideal, time-tested location for lightening that load, and giving the boy a golden memory: her family room.

An empty-nester, she has been sad recently that no one is using the pool table, the big-screen TV, the computer games and the stereo system. But now the troubled boy and seven friends are going to get to.

She’s ordering a mess of pizza for them, too.

When the saints come marchin’ in, I don’t think they’ll be carrying golden harps. I think they’ll have hammers and saws and duct tape and . . . pizza. Whatever builds people up and makes their lives a little better, they’ll use. Now, that’s a saint.

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Prayer request: Make new friends, but keep the old; one is silver and the other’s gold. My husband and his college roommate are traveling today to a 101-acre bit o’ heaven near Kansas City for the wedding of the third person of their college hijink triangle. It’s the birthday of both bride and bridegroom, too. My hubby has been the bridegroom’s “best man” for more than 45 years, through thick and thin. Make it a golden day and a safe day, Father, for Chief, Hack and Berg (who’ve grown up to be a doctor, a business owner and an attorney, of all things!) and all others who gather to share in the hope and excitement of an outdoor wedding in Kansas during the June tornado season!!! (Proverbs 18:24)