Poor Mom Who Ran Out of Food for Her Children Cries on Train until Kind Lady Approaches Her — Story of the Day
A desperate, unemployed single mother of two has her faith renewed when she receives a special delivery from the Christmas Angel.
Sally Warner sat on the train on her way home and pressed her icy hands to her hot forehead. Another long, fruitless day looking for work, any work. Anything to earn a few dollars to buy groceries…
But it seemed that half the city was desperate too, and Sally had received rejection after rejection, and she was going home empty-handed on Christmas Eve. The first year of the COVID pandemic she had lived on her savings, but now there was nothing left — and no work.
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Sally had been a cleaner for a large outsourcing company but once COVID hit, she had been laid off. As a single mom with two kids, she had always been careful and frugal, and she had thought her savings would take them through to the other side of the crisis.
She was wrong. Sally was now down to her last few dollars, and if she didn’t find a job pretty soon, she wouldn’t be able to pay her rent. Her parents lived in Arizona, and they were struggling just as badly as she was.
Sally’s ex-husband had abandoned her when she had been pregnant with her second child, little Oliver, and she hadn’t heard from him in five years. their daughter Samantha, now seven, hardly remembered her father.
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Sally leaned her head back and closed her eyes. Sammy and Ollie were waiting for her in her neighbor’s house, waiting for mom to come home and make Christmas dimmer and she had nothing for them, and certainly no gifts.
Tears were trickling down her cheeks, and then she felt a gentle hand on her shoulder. A tall elegant woman in her mid-forties was standing in front of her, smiling. The woman was holding up two paper shopping bags.
She gave them to Sally with a smile. “I think these were meant for you?”
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Sally looked at the woman in bewilderment. “For me? But what is it?”
The woman shrugged. “It’s a Christmas celebration in a bag. I was told you need this?”
“But… Who told you?...