Woman Goes to Church and Finds Her Long-Lost Brother — Story of the Day

A woman who had expected another routine Sunday with her family finds something unexpected after her instincts push her to look behind the altar.

It was just like any other Sunday. Adella made pancakes and eggs for her husband, Shawn, and two kids, after which they prepared for church.

The family had developed a routine over the years for Sundays; it began with pancakes for breakfast, followed by the church service, then a visit to the park, after which they would eat lunch out and then return home fulfilled and tired.

That was all they did on Sundays, and it was what Adella was looking forward to that morning. Little did she know that the day would go differently.

Because all family members knew exactly what to do, they made it out of the house in record time and were able to make the 11 a.m. church service.

Of course, many people beat them to the venue, which meant the best spaces were already taken. So the family of four sat silently in their row at the back of the church as they listened to the priest preach about the importance of living a saintly existence.

Halfway through the sermon, Adella felt the urge to pee and immediately stood up to make her way to the toilet.

“Hey honey, let me through,” she said.

“Is everything alright?” her husband asked.

“Of course, I just really need to pee, you know how my bladder is,” she whispered, then shimmied out of their seat, making her way towards the toilets. She exited the church and walked around the back to another smaller attached building where they were located.

But as she turned the corner, Adella caught a glimpse of a man walking towards the church’s shed. He moved slowly and looked like a fish out of water, but something about him drew her even though she didn’t remember ever seeing him around the church before.

He wore dark clothes that looked slept in, and he seemed uninterested in the sermon that was going on in the church, which only meant he...