“Stop it, Grandma!” Mike snapped. “I don’t need saving. Just leave me alone!”
Grace’s face fell, disappointment clear. “Fine. If this is how you feel, I won’t bother you anymore.”
Two months later, she passed away. At the funeral, Mike stood at the back, overcome with guilt. He hadn’t spoken to her since their fight, and now it was too late.
At the will reading, he was shocked to learn that Grace had left him only her Bible, with a note: Open it when it’s hard.
Furious, Mike shoved the Bible into a box and never thought about it again—until now.
With life crumbling, he dusted off the Bible. As he opened it, the note fluttered out: Open it when it’s hard.
“What did you mean, Grandma?” Mike murmured. “What was the point of this?”
As he flipped through the pages, he found something unexpected—hidden $100 bills. One by one, more money appeared between the pages. Trembling, he pulled out thousands of dollars.
Tears filled his eyes as the truth hit him. Grace hadn’t left him nothing—she had left him everything. She had hidden the money for him, knowing he would need it someday.
“Why didn’t you just tell me?” Mike whispered through tears. “Why keep it a secret?”
As memories of Grace flooded back—her love, her faith, her belief in him—Mike realized she hadn’t told him because she wanted him to find it when he truly needed it. She trusted he’d return to her gift in his own time.
With the money, Mike paid off his mother’s bills and funded her treatments. As her health improved, so did their lives. Mike cut back on work and enrolled in a part-time accounting course, a dream he had long abandoned.
He kept Grace’s Bible close, a symbol of her love and the redemption he thought he didn’t deserve.
Mike would never forget the lesson his grandmother had left him: love endures, even when we think we don’t deserve it. It’s never too late to find hope, and sometimes salvation comes when we least expect it.