More Than Today

This is a wonderful story concerning the recent hostage taking by a man who had just killed at a local courthouse in Atlanta. Hostage's servanthood turns accused killer's heart, gains her freedom by Mark Kelly ATLANTA (PD)--Ashley Smith never dreamed that living out the principles of chapter 33 in The Purpose Driven Life would save her life. She hadn't even read the chapter yet -- the one entitled "How Real Servants Act." It was her next day's reading. But when an escaped prisoner forced her into her apartment at gunpoint, the young mother of a 5-year-old turned his heart by serving him. Smith was accosted on the parking lot of her apartment in suburban Gwinnett County about 2 a.m., March 12, when she returned from a store. Brian Nichols, an escaped prisoner suspected in four murders the previous day, tied her up while he thought about how to avoid the massive manhunt being conducted for him. He reportedly had overpowered a deputy escorting him to court for a