Unbelievable: A Prayer Request

My mom called me yesterday to deliver some disturbing news. My parents left their house on Friday afternoon to go to Tampa and stay with my brother and sister in law and then go to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers preseason game on Saturday night. They returned home on Saturday night/early Sunday morning and went to bed. Around 4am, they both awoke to the sounds of the doorbell being rung over and over again. Mom looked out the window, nothing. Dad opened the door, nothing. They went back to bed. Sunday during the day, my dad discovered his palm pilot and digital camera missing, prompting my mom to look around the rest of the house for anything else missing. A couple of her cheap watches were gone as well as all 3 sets (mom, dad, brother) of season tickets to the Buccaneers. Apparently, the house was broken in to while they were in Tampa overnight.

They called the police and filed a report, but the police don't expect to find anything. A dead bolt has been put on the door because the only thing my parents can figure is that the doorbell at 4am was the burglars coming back. Tampa Bay has been nice enough to reissue the tickets and parking passes for the season once the police report listing the tickets as missing is on file. So, if anyone tries to sell you Tampa Bay home game tickets Section 123, Row L, Seats 3,4,&5, don't buy them...they're stolen property, and they will be void when you get to the gate at the stadium. My parents are terribly shaken up by this. They plan to get a security system on top of the new dead bolt.

So please pray for this entire situation: the guilty party, my parents, and my parents' house. They've lived in that house for 21 years and this is the first disturbance they've ever encountered...besides Hurricane Charley two years ago.