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Dawson Spencer McTavish was a thief. He loved being a thief. It was what he was created to do, and he was very good at his chosen profession. Dawson had been a thief ever since he stole Principal Morrison's prize baseball autographed by the entire New York Mets team after defeating the Red Sox four games to three in the 1986 World Series. The adrenaline rush Dawson experienced during that theft hooked him, and from that moment on, he knew what he wanted to do with his life.
As Dawson matured and his skills improved, the items he targeted became ever more valuable and more difficult to pilfer. And as the risks increased, so did the adrenaline rush, leading him to attempt progressively more difficult heists. In time, he began to dream of joining the ranks of the elite thieves whose exploits were spoken of with reverence by other members of the community. He even allowed himself to dream of one day committing the ultimate burglary, the theft that would define him as the greatest thief of all time.
But then something happened. Carson, Dawson's twin brother, accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior. From that moment on, Dawson's life began to change. He lost his edge. He began making mistakes, small at first, and then more consequential, until one day he was nearly apprehended.
Try as he might, Dawson could not get his edge back. Eventually, he identified the problem. He, too, was being pursued by the Holy Spirit. Unable to resist God's call, he finally surrendered and invited Jesus into his life.
But then Dawson had an even bigger problem with which to contend. He could not continue to steal. It was against God's law. Burdened by a guilty conscience, Dawson set out to reimburse his victims... with cash if he could not return the specific items he had taken. The questions that troubled him as he began his quest for redemption were whether he could complete his campaign of reimbursement, whether he would get caught while trying to do the right thing, and what he would do with his life now that he was no longer a thief.
