My Honesty Rewarded Me – Honesty Story #26

Have you ever found a purse in a parking lot?  One of our readers sent her inspiring and encouraging story. 

I am a college student and the phrase starving college student definitely applied to me when this incident happened.

I was a freshman at college trying to make ends meet not sure about finances at all my boyfriend had forgotten to pack a lunch and had called me on his break to see if i could bring him food. So i grudgingly took him lunch and wasn’t happy that I had to waste gas just because he forgot. Anyway I sat and ate lunch with him in my car outside of Wal-Mart (where he worked). There was a cart that had been there for a while next to my car and it had something in it…a purse i learned later. Well it started to rain and i didn’t want the contents of the purse to get messed up so i ran the purse inside to the service counter in hopes that the lady it belonged to would look there and i went back to my car. Around the end of my boyfriends lunch a lady who looked really upset was looking in the area of the cart she looked really frantic. I asked her if she had left a purse in a cart she said yes and i told her to check at the service desk because i had just taken one in.

As i was going to leave she ran out with a gift card to Wal-Mart with a generous amount of money and thanked me very much for my honesty with tears in my eyes i took it. God had answered my prayers i had desperately needed that money. I used that card for the next two months getting food and other necessary items. Honesty does pay.

Sent in by Julia

Add comment March 12th, 2009