Stranded moms holiday plea leads to stunning twist years later

“We all need more light today.We need more positivity.

We need family and faith, hope and strength — that’s what these stories are about.”SQuire Rushnell and Louise DuArt, co-founders of the “Godwinks” brands based in Massachusetts, shared those thoughts with Fox News Digital as well as the following true story. The couple believes the Lord works in mysterious ways.To see how — read on. On a cool morning some years ago just a few Sundays before Christmas, Chris Wright was driving his family to church in Athens, Georgia, when he noticed a woman walking alone on the side of the highway, carrying a gas can.That image haunted him.

After dropping off his wife and kids, he turned around to see if the woman needed help. Spotting her still walking on the berm, he pulled his car over, lowered the window and asked the woman if she needed assistance. The look on her face shifted from fear and worry to surprise and relief.As he drove her to the gas station, she told him she was so thankful. She was going through a bad patch, she said, with only $5 in her purse.She was worried about buying Christmas presents for her child and putting food on the table.Wright filled her gas can and drove the woman, TunDe Hector, back to her car. As he was about to leave, he decided to give her what he had left in his wallet.

Handing her $40, he apologized that it couldn’t be more. She teared up and thanked him.She also silently thanked the Lord for answering her prayers. She asked Wright, “Can I hug you?” As he drove away, he felt a surge of gratefulness that he had even a little something to help someone in need so close to the holidays.

He also recalled that his mother had always told him that whenever she sent him off to school in the morning, “be nice to someone today.”Three years after that incident, Wright’s mother was diagnosed with a serious illness. The hospital said she could go home if she had a nurse’s aide to help her.The aide origina...