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A rookie with a bag of shrimp covered a stranger's whole grocery bill, then asked her not to take the blessing away from him.
The Lord Jesus himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'
Acts 20:35
On Monday, July 27, 2026, a New Orleans Saints rookie stood in line at a Rouses Supermarket in Metairie, Louisiana, holding nothing but a bag of shrimp. Leslie Pedigo, ahead of him, offered to let the man with one item cut in front. Christen Miller had a different idea. He covered her whole cart, and when she protested, told her why: "My momma always taught me to do good deeds, and I'd like to bless you today. Please don't take that blessing from me."
His plea inverts the usual picture of charity. The strong one is supposed to stoop toward the needy one, handing help down from a surplus. Miller turned it around. Pedigo, who says she is about twice his age, came to the register as the one doing a young man a favor. She left as the occasion of his blessing.
The blessing was his, and the only way to keep it was to give it away.
There is a sentence behind his instinct, and it never made it into a Gospel. Paul quoted it to the elders at Ephesus, a saying of Jesus that none of the evangelists recorded, kept alive because he thought it worth repeating. The good runs toward the giver. Miller had never studied it. He was standing inside it, defending his own share.
Most of us are more comfortable on the far side of the ledger. It is easier to pick up the check than to let someone pick up ours, easier to give than to admit how much we are also receiving. Miller closed the gap. He asked to give the way most people ask for a favor.
Pedigo went home a Saints fan. Miller went home with exactly what he came to the store for, and it was never the shrimp.