完全是信仰的力量，使她能冷靜面對危險。
她先被捆綁，然後罪犯看她沒有威脅，又解開了她。

罪犯只是需要找個地方避一避風頭，他們結果一邊看電視一邊聊。
罪犯看他殺人的電視新聞的時候也和她說，想不到那就是他自己干的。

雖然內心還是害怕，但她仍然有勇氣和罪犯談信仰，拿出華理克牧師的書《標竿人生》和他談人生意義。罪犯後來回應她說，可能真是上帝帶領他到這個公寓來。

她甚至還告訴對方，如果他將來進了監獄做牢（假設他被判無期），神會帶領他向監獄犯人傳福音。

Ashley Smith, 26歲人質，出事兩天前剛搬入那間公寓，單親媽媽，寡婦，有一5歲女兒，丈夫4年前被槍殺。依然持守她的信仰，並在危險中和綁架她的罪犯分享信仰。

摘錄部分她的自述：

讀《標竿人生》

We went to my room. And I asked him if I could read. He said, "What do you want to read?"

"Well, I have a book in my room." So I went and got it. I got my Bible. And I got a book called "The Purpose-Driven Life."

I turned it to the chapter that I was on that day. It was Chapter 33. And I started to read the first paragraph of it. After I read it, he said, "Stop, will you read it again?"

I said, "Yeah. I'll read it again."

So I read it again to him.

It mentioned something about what you thought your purpose in life was. What were you -- what talents were you given? What gifts were you given to use?

And I asked him what he thought. And he said, "I think it was to talk to people and tell them about you."

罪犯初受感召

But after we began to talk, he said he thought that I was an angel sent from God. And that I was his sister and he was my brother in Christ. And that he was lost and God led him right to me to tell him that he had hurt a lot of people. And the families -- the people -- to let him know how they felt, because I had gone through it myself.

安慰罪犯

Most of my time was spent talking to this man about my life and experiences in my life, things that had happened to me.

He needed hope for his life. He told me that he was already dead. He said, "Look at me, look at my eyes. I am already dead."

And I said, "You are not dead. You are standing right in front of me. If you want to die, you can. It's your choice."

But after I started to read to him, he saw -- I guess he saw my faith and what I really believed in. And I told him I was a child of God and that I wanted to do God's will. I guess he began to want to. That's what I think.

罪犯初步反省

We watched the news. He looked at the TV and he just said, "I cannot believe that's me on there."

罪犯悔恨流露

And at one point, he said, "You know, I'd rather you shoot -- the guns are laying in there -- I'd rather you shoot me than them." I said, "I don't want anyone else to die, not even you."

罪犯心意更新

From the time he walked into my house until we were taking that truck, he was a totally different person to me. I felt very threatened, scared. I felt he was going to kill me when -- when I first -- when he first put the gun to my side, but when I followed him to pick -- to take the truck, I felt he was going to -- he was really going to turn himself in.

神跡、信心和盼望

And I just talked with him a little more, just about -- about -- we pretty much talked about God ... what his reason was, why he made it out of there.

I said, "Do you believe in miracles? Because if you don't believe in miracles -- you are here for a reason. You're here in my apartment for some reason. You got out of that courthouse with police everywhere, and you don't think that's a miracle? You don't think you're supposed to be sitting here right in front of me listening to me tell you, you know, your reason here?"

I said, "You know, your miracle could be that you need to -- you need to be caught for this. You need to go to prison and you need to share the word of God with them, with all the prisoners there."

精彩見證，欲知詳情請上CNN。這是一個發生在我所住的城市的真實故事....

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/14/smith.tran????/index.html