A homeless woman used her small savings to replace a three-year-old boy’s stolen bike in Maine.
Most of us have walked past someone who needed help because we were busy or our money was tight.
We tell ourselves someone else will step up and do something. But is that what God really expects us to do?
This homeless woman shows us the kind of heart God wants all of us to have, even when we don’t have much to give.
Little Fuller-Wright’s son was over the moon about his first bike. The bright red Spider-Man bike made him the happiest kid on the block.
His mom, Liz Fuller-Wright, took him on his first real ride to celebrate. They stopped at Walgreens after he rode half a mile.
When they came back outside, the bike was gone. Fuller-Wright walked up and down the sidewalk, hoping she just missed it behind the big cement columns.
But security cameras showed the truth. Someone had stolen a three-year-old’s first bike.
“It was a mix of emotions. I mean, sad, disappointed, you know, angry at the state of humanity. He’s 3 years old. This is his first bike. And you don’t want to think that anybody would do that,” Fuller-Wright said.
Rockland police shared the surveillance video on Facebook, hoping someone would help find the bike. What happened next nobody expected.
A homeless woman saw the post and started crying. “I happen to put Facebook on and I saw that story about the little boy who had his bike stolen. What this little boy was thinking when he came out of that store with his mom, and saw his bike missing, I cried. I worried about what that little boy would be growing up and be thinking about the world,” she said.
This woman had almost nothing. But she went to Walmart and bought the exact same bike, plus a helmet and lock. She drove to the Rockland police station and dropped it off for the little boy.
When Fuller-Wright heard about this act of kindness, she called the woman.
“She’s not someone flush with cash. But she gave so much, so generously to a little boy she’d never met, never known. Because she wanted him to be happy. She didn’t want him to think that there were that there were bad guys in the world. She wanted him to have faith in humanity.”
When asked what she would say if she met the boy, the woman’s heart showed through her words: “I think I would probably just cry…And I’d probably let him know that no matter what happens in life, we go through our troubles, our ups and downs, but there’s always somebody out there that’s watching over us… He’s never alone.”
The Mid-Coast Recovery Coalition collected almost $1,200 in donations for this generous woman.
This homeless woman showed us what being a Christian really looks like. It’s not about fancy words or big church buildings. It’s about love and sacrifice.
When you put others first, like she did, even when you have almost nothing, people see Jesus in you and God is glorified.
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