Grace
Appearances
The Ramsey Show
It’s Our 2024 Annual Giving Show!
Hey, thank you for having me on. Sure. Um, yeah, so let's see about eight years ago, 2016, my mom tragically passed away. Um, I was just graduated high school. My whole community just rallied around me. They, you know, supported me. They, you know, did fundraisers and, um, got me a pretty big lump sum of money enough so I could buy my first car, my first laptop so I can get to college.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Our 2024 Annual Giving Show!
It was just absolutely fantastic. Um, so that, that in itself is absolutely amazing. Now, fast forward six years from then. So two years ago, um, me and my, we were fiance's or my fiance, then we're married now. We were trying to save up for our wedding and trying to just pick up extra shifts and really didn't want to go into our marriage with any debt, um, especially not from our wedding.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Our 2024 Annual Giving Show!
And so unfortunately though, we had racked up about a $2,000, um, give or take a few, um, And randomly, one of my mom's friends from whenever she was alive, she messaged me just one day randomly and said, hey, there's a bank account that is for you that we set up that has the money in it. And I don't know why, but they hadn't given it to me.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Our 2024 Annual Giving Show!
I think they had just forgotten or something had happened. Um, anyways, long story short ended up being the exact amount of money that we were in debt, um, on our mom, my credit card. And so it was just amazing. People had given money and putting this, put it in, put it into an account for us. Um, and then six years later, it was still there and it just.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Our 2024 Annual Giving Show!
just shows how good God's grace is and that it's never ending.
The Ramsey Show
It’s Our 2024 Annual Giving Show!
Oh yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Anytime, anytime we just,
The Ramsey Show
It’s Our 2024 Annual Giving Show!
it's really not even a second thought sort of thing it's just like if I have this and somebody else needs it absolutely we just had our first first child about seven months ago so even then having a child and just seeing how giving people were for her and just for us and it's just it's amazing how um how kind and generous people can be and it does it has it has moved us in ways that
The Ramsey Show
It’s Our 2024 Annual Giving Show!
We just have to repay what we can as often as we can.