Shortness of breath took over me. My legs weak and burning and with every step taken I longed to stop and rest. My head started to pound while tension and sweat ran down the back of my neck and spread across my shoulders.

I noticed 3 police officers standing outside my neighbors door. After asking me a couple of questions, they informed me that my neighbor was found dead earlier that day in his apartment.

Everyone loves the last second basketball buzzer beater or the touchdown catch as the clock expires...except for the losers. I learned all about that last week. My team lost our football game in the last second on a Hail Mary play.

This article was published on Relevant Magazine.com.

A couple of years ago a friend and I from bible school were visiting his family in south Texas for the weekend. Sunday morning we planned on meeting his parents for church, but my friend had never been so he wasn’t sure exactly where it was. We ended up pulling up to an old white church with a big steeple. We walked in immediately and realized we probably weren’t in the right place.