A young girl in Missouri found one hundred dollars…..and in the spirit of Christmas passed it on to needy families.
Phoebe Brown is a second-grade student in Independence, Missouri. While grocery shopping with her mother and sister, she found a discarded lottery ticket. To her surprise, the ticket was worth $100. Rather than spend the money on herself, Phoebe chose to buy groceries for families in need. Her proud mom told reporters, “For a mother, it’s more than you could possibly imagine.”
Jim Dennison, writing for Christian headlines.com says, “It’s the kind of good news we can all use right now.”
On the morning he wrote about Phoebe’s selfless gesture the news included headlines about deaths from wildfires in Tennessee and tornadoes in the southeast.
He writes, while “Tragedies during the Christmas season are especially hard to fathom, The Bible tells us to “give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.“ “Steadfast love” describes a love that is unconditional and unchanging, depending in no sense on us and in every sense on God.
He then refers to a section in Max Lucado’s Pocket Prayers — “When we invite God into our world, he walks in. He brings a host of gifts: joy, patience, resilience. Anxieties come, but they don’t stick. Fears surface and then depart. Regrets land on the windshield, but then comes the wiper of prayer. The devil still hands me stones of guilt, but I turn and give them to Christ.”