Rich Man Shelters Old Lady with Baby in Her Arms, Gets Emotional When He Recognizes Her Pendant — Story of the Day
A rich man impulsively offers a homeless elderly woman and her infant grandchild shelter and is shocked to recognize the pendant she is wearing.
Do you believe in miracles? You should, because they are all around us and they happen every day. Some are small and quiet so you don’t even notice them, others are disguised as coincidences.
John Gregor believes in miracles because he witnessed one, and it transformed his lonely life and brought him everything he’d ever prayed for.
John was stunned to see the pendant around the old lady’s neck | Source: Shutterstock.com
John Gregor grew up in an orphanage after he was abandoned outside a 24-hour drug store in a small town in Minnesota. He was carefully wrapped in a soft baby-blue blanket and around his neck was a pretty little locket.
When they opened the locket they found a note: “Please look after my baby. I don’t want him to suffer. His name is John.” The note was signed “Tessa.”John was handed over to Child Services and was placed in foster care.
After a few years, he was placed in an orphanage, but while so many other children were chosen for adoption, somehow John was never picked by the couples who came looking for a kid to love.
John would sit in a corner, clutching his locket in his hands, and recite the note: “Please look after my baby. I don’t want him to suffer. His name is John.”
John was carefully wrapped in a soft baby-blue blanket | Source: Unsplash
He’d whisper to himself: “My mother loved me, she named me and she wanted me to be safe!” That locket and that belief got him through some dark days. and even after he was a grown man, and a successful one, he never took it off.
One day, John was having lunch at a prestigious New York restaurant when he noticed a woman huddled against the restaurant window, trying to shelter herself and the baby in her arms from the snow under the awning.
John quickly called for the bill, settled up, and walked outside. He walked up to the woman and touched her gently on the shoulder. At his touch she cringed and turned around, raising frightened eyes to his face.
She was older than he had thought, clearly too old to be the baby’s mother. Her face was scored with lines of suffering, and a scar dimpled...