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For years in my parish, we have prayed these words in the Sunday intercessions every week,
For a spirit of generosity in the hearts of us who have more than we need...An older married couple in Canada has likely never heard our intercession but they are living out just what we pray for. With a H/T to KPD, here's the story of Violet and Allen Large.
An elderly couple who won around $11 million from a lottery ticket in Canada have given the money away to good causes and family, according to media reports. Violet and Allen Large, who live in rural Nova Scotia, decided they had no need for the money and, four months after the Lotto 6-49 win, have given virtually all of it to churches, animal charities, hospitals and other groups, the Halifax Chronicle-Herald reported. "What you've never had, you never miss," Violet Large, 78, who is recovering from cancer, told the newspaper. "We have an old house, but we're comfortable and we're happy in it." "It made us feel good," she said about giving the money away. "And there’s so much good being done with that money."
Allen Large was a steel welder and his wife worked for cosmetics and chocolate companies during 30 years when they lived in Ontario. Married since 1974, they moved to Lower Truro in Nova Scotia in 1983, the paper said... "That money that we won was nothing — we have each other," Allen Large told the newspaper, choking back tears as he spoke. Violet Large had her final course of chemotherapy last week, the Chronicle-Herald said. "I've been very fortunate not to be bedfast," she told the paper.
The Chronicle-Herald said after giving some money to family, the couple made donations to various good causes... The Globe and Mail newspaper said the couple lived in a 19th century home and drove a 13-year-old car and a five-year-old truck. They don't have a microwave and are even without voicemail...
"We didn’t do it to get recognized. Why spend money when you already have everything you need?" she told the Globe and Mail Thursday. "We haven't spent even one penny on ourselves. We're not travelers and we're not high-class people," she added. Her husband said they had "a little bit left, not that much." "But we had sufficient before. We worked for 30 years and put some away each year," he added...
(Read the complete story here)
Thanks for such a wonderful heartwarming story- it is so telling that they identify themselves in this way: " we're not high class people".
ReplyDeleteWell, maybe that's true in the material sense of this world but in my estimation they are the tops !
A light in the world! Wow, what generosity, so beautiful to behold. If a symbol is what it does, they are truly a symbol of authentic charity, true love.
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