!!!

Shannon Matthews - who went missing (just disappeared without a trace, really) three weeks ago in West Yorkshire and has been the object of a massive manhunt ever since - has been found alive and safe. Her abductor is in police custody. Every parent's nightmare, at least in her case, is over.

(Maybe there's still hope, then, for Madeleine McCann?)

Thanks be to God.

And pray for those who are missing, and those unnamed who similarly suffer.