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this is for Jeney. It reminded me of her husband not that he was a drug addict but he has this kind of heart... :). It was from Breaking Christian News.....
Former Drug Addict Prays with Bank-Robber after Tackling Him at Scene of Crime
Teresa Neumann (March 7, 2009)
"I knelt beside him there in the street and asked God to come into his life and to supernaturally clean him up, transform him, protect him through the process of prison and that he become a powerfull instrument of God's grace when he gets out. The people all looked on, seemingly frozen, at the redemptive drama playing out. The chase, the fight, the dejection and shame, the mercy and prayer."
(Portland, Or.)-Writing for Christian News Northwest (CNNW), publisher John Fortmeyer has related the extraodinary story of a bank robber in need of redemption and the victim who offered it to him after apprehending him near the scene of the crime.
On February 13, according to the report, after robbing a Wells Fargo Bank, a 43-year-old transient was chased down by a man named Shawn Miller who had been in the bank during the robbery. Miller caught up with the man and tackled him to the ground.
Writes Fortmeyer: "Holding the man on the ground as he waited for police to arrive, Miller sensed the robber's total despair. Filled with a compassion sparked by the Christian faith that had redeemed himself from a life of crime, Miller right there-in front of a gathering crowd-asked the man if he could pray for him."
"He agreed," said Miller. "I knelt beside him there in the street and asked God to come into his life and to supernaturally clean him up, transform him, protect him through the process of prison and that he become a powerful instrument of God's grace when he gets out. The people all looked on, seemingly frozen, at the redemptive drama playing out. The chase, the fight, the dejection and shame, the mercy and prayer."
Miller reportedly told all this to the local police and the FBI.
"They said this was a beautiful story," Miller said "I felt that God had a chance to play out His redemptive story through a very fast time-line having had a maximum effect on those around and that it had nothing to do with me, but was truly a 'set-up' for His glory."