A Treasury of Christmas Miracles (2001)
“A woman was weeping loudly in a corner booth at a truck stop on the highway outside of town. Several patrons had grown concerned and contacted the sheriff’s department.
Armstrong sighed and turned his patrol car in the direction of the truck stop. As a veteran officer of eight years, he had seen so much pain in the lives of people that he could only imagine what might cause a woman to weep aloud in a truck stop.
Especially on Christmas Day.
As he drove the remaining three miles, he remembered how the pain people suffered had been the reason he had joined the police force in the first place. He had ridden along with a police officer one night as part of the research for a local newspaper story he was writing. The first call of the night involved a woman who had been badly beaten by her husband. Armstrong watched as the officer handcuffed the man and led him away; he saw the relief on the woman’s face, and suddenly something clicked.
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