A powerful Facebook post shared by Barbara Danner has captivated the hearts of many across the web.
If your average picture is worth a thousand words, this breathtaking moment must be worth a million:
Barbara Danner
The day after losing her husband, Adam, to heart disease, Alisha Wisbey went to get a coffee at Dutch Bros., Vancouver, a place she regularly visited. When these Dutch Bros Coffee workers saw that the woman in the drive-thru was “falling apart,” they decided to extend their hands out to her car and pray for her.
“They wanted to let me know that I’m not alone and they feel my pain,” Alisha explained to Fox 12. “And that no matter what faith you are, what color you are, who you are, other people can feel your pain and they’re there for you.”
However, they didn’t realize that a customer behind them had taken a photo and posted it to social media, where it went viral.
Along with the picture above, Barbara shared these words detailing the emotional encounter:
Dear Dutch Bros Coffee, snapped this picture while waiting in line at the Dutch Bros on 138th Avenue today. Turns out the young lady in line ahead of us lost her 37-year-old husband last night. When the DB guys & gals noticed she was falling apart, they stopped everything and prayed with her for several minutes, invited her to come back for prayer and support, as well as anything else that she might need. Prayers for the young family, and you know where to stop for coffee!
Pierce Dunn and Evan Freeman were the two Dutch Bros workers praying for her.
“Her husband passed and as soon as she said that, I’m like, ‘there’s nothing more you need to say, we got this,’” Evan said. “We’re going to do what we do every time there’s someone in pain or hurt. We’re going to give them our love.”
Alisha Wisby is who the woman the Dutch Bros employees prayed over that morning.
The photo eventually got around to Alisha, who says it made her cry all over again — but happy tears this time. Not only will it always remind her of the kindness she was shown, but it honors her beloved husband. “Something spiritual or something beautiful like that, you can’t always see it, at that moment,” Alisha said. “But I can now because I have [a] picture, and it’s another way I can remember him.”
In a day and age where prayer is shut out of schools and getting football coaches fired, it’s pretty amazing to see a group of young people go above and beyond their minimum wage duty by boldly praying for a stranger in need.
Both on our highest peaks and in our deepest valleys, prayer is the language of heaven that fuses us ever more deeply with God. Like these young men, let us remember that there truly is no greater gift we can offer our neighbors.
