This past Thanksgiving, Lisa and Chris Woodard got off to a rough start. As they were making preparations for their expected guests, Chris strolled into the garage to straighten up things when he noticed something had vanished — his Ducati motorcycle.
About 11 weeks later, the bike was returned through a series of events. In a surprising twist, the Woodards heard a knock on their door one evening after that. "It is someone who wants to apologize for what happened a few months ago," Lisa reported William as saying.
During their discussions Chris found out that William, an 18-year old who had stolen the bike to to pay off a business-related debt he owed from a car-detailing service, was on drugs that night when he stole the bike and has been battling drug addiction for a while.
"Chris was encouraging and counseling the kid," said Lisa. "We are Christians and Chris took it as a miraculous opportunity to share the gospel with this kid and also talk to him from personnel experience since my husband was once a hoodlum. By God's grace Chris turned his life around."
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