“I swear, it won’t happen again. I just…I guess I’m just having a strange week. “That’s all.”

When she got back to her office, she sat down at her desk and marveled at her childish behavior. What had gotten into her?

It was then that she saw a copy of the memo that she’d sent out before her broadcast that morning. The bible verse from the book of “Hebrews” glared back at her like an accusatory finger.

“’Be content with such things as you have’,” she read aloud. “Oh, how could I be so stupid!”

And the week went by without another thought to her indiscretion. Patrick and Henry did the six month review and thankfully, Patrick never mentioned the incident.

The next Monday, she came in with oatmeal walnut cookies and before she could get settled in her office, Christian Davidson was there, poking his head in and reciting the verse from last week. When he was done, he took a cookie and regarded her for a long moment while chewing on it thoughtfully.

“Is there something wrong?” he asked.

She looked up at him wearily. She hadn’t purposely been thinking about the past two weeks, but somehow both weeks had crept back into her consciousness and she felt as though she had been just terrible. Now, here she was, sitting in her office, beginning the third week with the eerie Christian Davidson looking down at her with coal black eyes.

“No…” she said. “I suppose not. Just a bad couple of weeks.”

Christian raised one dark eyebrow. “I didn’t think Christians had bad weeks.”

She shook her head weakly. “The devil is just having his way with me that’s all.”

He stopped chewing and frowned. “How do you mean?”

“I haven’t exactly been myself, you know? Lord God, I will never know what the devil gets out of terrorizing the good Christians. Just another soul for him, right?”

Christian took a seat in the chair on the far end of the office. “How do you know if it was the devil that brought you such bad luck,” he said. “I mean, you can’t blame that which you cannot see, right?”

“Don’t fool yourself, Christian,” she said. “Satan is always trying to undermine the good work of God’s people. The happier we are, the more he has to disrupt it.”