'This is how God takes evil and turns it into something wonderful': How one woman's Charleston experience reinforced God's love

Kayla Robinson Hall wanted her kids to know that despite tragic violence hope lives on.

Almost a week has passed since the Charleston church shooting and one mother decided to bring her three young sons to the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. Kayla Robinson Hall wanted to show her children that despite the terror and pain people are suffering with, people can be good and united. On their way, she encountered a man, who proved even to herself that God is with us even in the darkest days, bringing wonderful things.

MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - "While I was pumping gas I was looking around me. It was almost like the day after 9/11, when you just wanted to hug everybody you saw. I went into the gas station and I kept trying to make eye contact with people and it just wasn't happening. And I went out; I was done pumping my gas and I just hear this gentleman say, 'Young lady!'" shared Hall on The Glenn Beck Program last Monday.

She rushed to the man, who only had one eye and one leg, to help him push his car. But the man said he is strong enough to do it alone, that he needed Hall to move her car.

"Serving my country in Desert Storm," responded the man after Hall asked what had happened to him. She also learned that he was on his way to the Emanuel AME Church and needed six dollars to get downtown.

Hall ran to get some money, telling the man she also wanted him to be able to get back home, too. Soon, they hugged each other and she asked the man if they could take a photo together before he left, because she never wanted to forget his face.

She shared the picture and the story on Facebook, writing "This is how we are blessed by serving others. This is how God takes evil and turns it into something wonderful!"

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