If you just found a large sum of money and could easily walk away with it, what would you do?
This immigrant bagboy found $10,000. He turned it in. Why? Here's what he said,
"I teach a Sunday school with 10-year-old kids and I always tell them to do the right thing."
75 year-old Billie Watts can top him. She found $100,000 and gave it back,
A Murfreesboro woman chose not to follow the old saying "Finders keepers, losers weepers" when she discovered nearly $100,000 in a bag at the Cracker Barrel on Church Street in Murfreesboro last week. But it wasn't that the thought didn't cross her mind."Satan will tempt you. I have been having real bad teeth problems," said Billie Watts, 75. "I thought 'I'll get my teeth fixed.'"
But she ultimately decided to return the money she found hanging in a bag in the women's restroom to its rightful owner, whom she described as an elderly woman named Judith who had stopped in town on her way to relocate to Florida.
....Besides, Billie Watts said she was motivated to be honest.
"There is a hereafter. Some tend to forget that," she said. "God takes care of us anyway."
The Watts are both 75 years old and have been married 58 years. They have four daughters, 12 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
It's not that they couldn't have used some of the money. Malcolm has battled cancer, had open heart surgery and they both have diabetes.
The couple relies on their Social Security checks. Malcolm served in the Navy for eight years. Formerly a manager at Giant Foods and employed in the printing industry, he receives medical care from the Veterans Administration.
Note the similarities there; both of these people found large sums of money, were quite naturally tempted, but both of them gave up the money because of their Christian values.
Christians are endlessly maligned by the media, by Hollywood, and by the Left -- but, one of the biggest reasons America has been a success is because of the fundamental decency of the people, which is largely a function of the Judeo-Christian values that this nation has been steeped in since its founding.
Granted, you don't have to be a Christian to be a decent person, but even the decent and moral atheists and agnostics in this country are, for the most part at least, decent and moral because they accept many Judeo-Christian values even if they don't accept God.
Given all the scorn that is heaped on Christians in the political and cultural arena, it should be remembered that much of what makes this such a great country to live in is a direct result of this being a Christian nation with a Judeo-Christian tradition.
