Human nature is an incredible thing. Even when it seems like all is lost, incredible souls rise up above the adversity to prove, time and again, that people are mostly good.
Even in our darkest moments, it’s amazing how people demonstrate their better natures, like this seventh grader who sprang into action to rescue a bus full of his classmates. Ordinary people can turn into heroes in an instant, just by taking action in a crisis, the way this group of teenagers did when they spotted a kidnapping underway.
That’s exactly what happened this past week in South Carolina, when an ordinary man turned into a folk hero, not by saving a life, but by saving the memory of one. Massive flooding has devastated South Carolina for the past week, destroying homes, endangering lives, and even unearthing buried caskets.
Wayne Reeves, a local pastor for New Life Ministries in Summerville, SC, was doing an interview about the impact of the flooding, when he saw a casket float by on the rising waters. Interview forgotten, Reeves wasted no time wading into the waist-deep water to retrieve the coffin.
According to Reeves, it’s what anyone would have done, saying, “If that was my mom or my dad, I'd walk through hell and high water. And today it happened to be high water.”
What he didn’t realize? The family of the deceased was nearby, and happened to catch his incredible actions as they were unfolding. Watch their response to the Reeve’s good deed in the video below.
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