Maybe you've seen that video of a grandmother hugging and thanking a policeman for eggs. Here is the Tarrant, Alabama, news story.
When she was caught trying to shoplift eggs to feed her children, she thought she'd go to jail. The policeman instead bought the carton of eggs for her and the store didn't press charges: unexpected, unearned mercy. Because the bystander's video has been seen by thousands, food and gifts have poured in to help this woman, Helen.
This small kindness reminds Eric Metaxas of the kindness of God to reach out to us in our darkness by sending Jesus Christ, the light of humankind:
"[T]he darkness gathering around us does not have the final word. . The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
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