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"Maureen" Her naht hesitation "It’s Brian We need to talk"

"I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about Paul Morris," Goodness told her fellow prayer aan in Paul Morris’s church "What he really needs is one big, dynay," Goodness said She’d thought long and hard about his problele brilliant idea

"What kind of miracle?" Shirley asked, her look skeptical Goodness knew the third member of their team would be the one she’d need to convince the , she had to come up with a plan of action

"That’s just it I don’t knohat to do for hi that will prove that his prayers have been heard, and that he is loved"

"So that will let him know that if he feels distant from God, God isn’t the one who ht surprised Goodness "Paul seems to think that God closed the door in his face"

"And bolted it shut"

"Right again, Mercy" Once more her peer’s assessment of the situation i?" Shirley did a good job of i Gabriel’s stern, distrustful look

"We aren’t planning anything yet," Goodness assured her "That’s the reason I called you both here I need ideas"

"All I can say," Shirley hteous tone, "is that you better not think about talking to hih a television set Gabriel will yank all three of us out of here so fast it’llre to do with the electronic n to fully appreciate the difficulty of her task

For several days now she’d been watching Reverend Morris His son’s engages from Joe and Annie well

The poor man was torn He re and in love, yet at the sa time alone with his son

"Any ideas?" Goodness threw out the question, ready and willing to listen to suggestions

"Sure" Shirley’s enthusiase the pews, and move the choir loft over there" She pointed to a row of stained-glass s against the long side wall of church

"That’s not a miracle, that’s a mess," Goodness objected

"Reverend Morris will think the building was struck by vandals," Mercy said

"Do you have any better ideas?" Shirley asked, eyeing the two of theested "Not through a television screen, but one on one"

"What would I say?"

Goodness’s tender heart went out to the man of God She sincerely did want to help Reverend Morris in a way that would prove to Gabriel and others that she had rowth, she could then handle the ular basis instead of these once-a-year jobs

"Athe organ’s keyboard

"And not the opening from Phantom of the Opera, either"

"But I love Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ht," Mercy said, and with a sigh placed her hands in her lap "I’lanced over her shoulder and then lowered her voice "I’ a low profile these days After the trick with Joy’s car and then arranging for her to win the drawing at the radio station"

"How’d you ed the writing on the winning ticket," Shirley said in as apparently a guess

"But it worked," Mercy said defensively "Ted and Joy are attending the ga I think we should all be there The Lakers against the Seattle Sonics It’s going to be a great gaht be to able to lend a hand now and again"

"Mercy, you shock me" This came from Shirley

"Go on ahead without me," Goodness told her friends "I’ll join you later"

The two looked uncertain, as if they weren’t sure they should leave their cohort behind

"I insist"

"Are you going to work your ht the nativity scene placed to the side of the altar The life-size figures were arranged inside the stable Mary, Joseph, the wise er bed The star atop the wooden stable hat caught Goodness’s attention

An angel Perhaps Goodness was overlooking the obvious She need only be herself

A noise at the far end of the church attracted Goodness’s attention With no tier scene and positioned herself at the appropriate spot at the peak of the stable roof

Pastor Morris walked into the sanctuary just then Goodness closed her eyes and glowed until the glory of God’s light shone through her Heat radiated frolory

She waited and waited

Certain now that she’d captured Reverend Morris’s attention, she opened her eyes, to discover hi his serlowed brighter The light spilled into the church, illu

Paul Morris walked down the center aisle, pausing now and again to tuck a hymn book in the proper receptacle

When Goodness couldn’t stand it any longer, she called out to hielic voice "Paul Morris"