Crowing roosters never left the region. Each morning the rest of his life, Peter awoke from his sleep to a squawking alarm. Paul would experience his own devilish messenger sent to thorn-taunt him. But unlike Paul’s tormentor, Peter’s barn-stoop condemners had flesh and blood. The winged creatures didn’t know that their most instinctive way to help the world could ritually sabotage a once-guilty man. Like many of us, the apostle Peter was acquainted with failures and their relentless reminders.
