I just got an e-mail from my sister-in-law Sandi (the one here in Bedford County). She is asking friends and family to keep her and my nephew in prayer. When my nephew, who is in third grade, gets home from school, my sister-in-law has to tell him that his junior pro basketball coach, a cancer patient, died today.

I solicit your prayers for the coach, Trace Handy; for his family; and for all of the young people like my nephew who will miss him.