Passing Lincoln

When her great-grandson returns the five-dollar bill with her note that he can trust God, Dolores is ready to give up hope. She wants to believe God can reach him, but she doesn’t know how to help. Desperately, she puts her gift in the offering plate on Sunday morning and prays, God, if you’re really there, you can use my money to save one of those kids. I don’t want to be selfish. It doesn’t have to be my Little Chet. Whoever it is, God, I pray you use my gift to help them see Jesus. From wallet to purse to dumpster to pocket, her gift travels all over Beulah, Indiana, until it returns to the hands of the young man who gave it away. Passing Lincoln is a modern-day speculation of what God can do with a widow’s two coins (Mark 12:41-44).