Samantha Hudgens Swaney and her husband were having a garage sale but had some unexpected visitors stop by. A couple of police officers stopped by and Samantha’s first thought was that she needed to grab her permit, but that’s not the reason they showed up. Samantha shared her experience with the officers to the Conyers Police Department’s Facebook Page:
This was submitted by Samantha Hudgens Swaney. Thanks for sharing how our fine officers impact the community!
On Saturday morning my husband and I and our friend Toni were setting up for a garage sale– it was about 7:45am and a city of Conyers policeman pulled up– my first thought was that I needed to find my permit He smiled and said that he was actually stopping to see if we happened to be selling a baby crib. He shared that he had just responded to a family in need and he saw that their most immediate need was a crib for their tiny three month old. He and his partner were willing to buy one and just stopped by when they saw us putting out a bunch of furniture for sale.
It might have seemed random to him, but I fully believe he was being led by The Lord. What he couldn’t have known is that we had a brand new, never been used crib in our attic– several years ago we lost our baby during labor, and I haven’t been able to part with the crib. There was not a second’s hesitation– we gave him the crib and mattress. He and my husband went into the attic to bring it down.
Those two gentlemen did so much more than they knew on Saturday, April 10. They rushed to the aid of someone in our community, saved the life of a little baby and helped her parents. And they gave me a way to let go of one of the biggest things I was holding onto from my son’s cut-short life. I praise God for those two– I am so grateful for servants like them in our community. They weren’t looking for praise, they were responding to a need. They could’ve just gone home from work and hugged their families and forgotten about it, but that wasn’t enough for them.
There’s so much more to the story on their part, but I don’t know how much to share.
We have the greatest town and such fantastic officers!!
What an incredible story! Have you ever experienced something like this?