It is true and happened to a teenager...Toby.
Toby was 16, and wanted to go to Africa on a mission with other young people from his church.But since he was very fair, his mother made him promise to always wear long sleeve shirts and plenty of sunscreen. He agreed, and off he went....
One day, in the marketplace of the little town where Toby was completing his work, a man approached him...about Toby's shirt.
The man had never seen a long-sleeved shirt and wished he could have it.
But remembering his promise, Toby sadly refused to part with it, and that night in his tent, after his friends had gone to sleep, for the first time since he was a little boy, Toby cried himself to sleep.
When he returned home, Toby told his mother what happened, and she responded that she'd always known he had the quality of mercy, and would figure out what to do.
And so Toby set to work in his church and community collecting longsleeve shirts...
When he had collected 1500, he sent them off to Africa, with a note on the top shirt, for the man whose request Toby had had to refuse weeks earlier.
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One message of the presentation we watched Wed. night was that mercy is Spirit put into action. Toby's story was used to illustrate this quality.
*smiles*
I so liked this, Molly ... taught me a few things, it did. Thank you.