Couple cancels their big wedding and gives Thanksgiving dinners to the needy: The paradoxical path to transforming grace
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 4 December 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR DECEMBER 4, 2020
A couple was forced to cancel their big wedding, so they gave Thanksgiving dinners to the needy. Today's podcast tells their story, then we focus on reasons to choose the obedience that leads to the freedom found only in the kindness of God.
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| 0:59.0 | Emily Bugg and Billy Lewis had to change their wedding plans in Chicago due to the pandemic, |
| 1:04.8 | getting married at City Hall last month instead. |
| 1:07.8 | There was this piece of unfinished business, however. |
| 1:12.2 | What should they do with their $5,000 non-refundable catering deposit? They decided to turn it into 200 Thanksgiving dinners for people |
| 1:19.6 | with severe mental illnesses. Emily is an outreach worker at a nonprofit that helps people with |
| 1:25.7 | bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other psychiatric conditions. |
| 1:30.4 | As a result of their contribution, clients received a box dinner of turkey, dressing, mashed |
| 1:35.6 | potatoes, green beans, and other dishes. So many people have told us this was a beautiful way to start |
| 1:41.0 | our married life together, she said. |
| 1:45.5 | How did hearing this story make you feel? |
| 1:48.6 | Redeeming challenges for greater good strikes a chord with us. |
| 1:52.7 | This is because, as moral foundations theory states, it is human nature to affirm decisions |
| 1:58.2 | that show we care, uphold standards of fairness, demonstrate loyalty to |
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