Sometimes Angels Get Rewarded Too

It was Monday night. I had just turned on the nightly news, bracing for the reports of murder, kidnappings, trials, ridiculous car chases and the like. I began watching, yet not paying too much attention, as is my normal mode during the unending bad or trivial news relayed over television, when I heard the announcer tease a story, something about true angels being rewarded.

Hmmm, immediately my mind thought of a woman in Los Angeles, a particular woman with an incredibly touching mission, to give a grave to all of the discarded babies who had been abandoned and died, either in a trashcan or some other equally offensive way. I don't exactly know why she would come to mind at that exact moment. I turned to my husband, who was also watching and said,

"Do you think it's that woman who takes the babies left abandoned and......."

Before I could finish, the commercial was over and the smiling anchor began,

"A California woman who provides funerals for dead, abandoned babies has won a multimillion-dollar lottery jackpot."

So it was true. This woman had made it her mission to take abandoned babies who had died and give them a proper burial, with a headstone and a name, had won the California Lottery.

This woman had started Garden of Angels cemetery for unidentified and abandoned infants, and had buried about 40 of them at her own expense, and with a few donations which came in after the news of her work had been made public.

Now, as if the "little angels" had gotten together to thank her, she had won a 27 million dollar lottery.

This story brought tears to my eyes and happiness to my heart. I heard her say that she would use some of the money to establish educational funds for her children, and continue on with her very important mission. There was not a word about how she would buy a new house, go on a trip, or anything except to continue doing as she had been doing, giving to those babies a final, respectful resting place.

It makes me feel hope this year for mankind, that amid the horrors of this world today, random acts of kindness are sometimes rewarded in mysterious ways.