Lost Bible beats owner to Spanish Fort church

Walking out of his house with his beloved Bible in hand Feb. 11, John M. Webb was on his way to Sunday School at First Baptist Church, Spanish Fort. Several miles down the road, he suddenly realized his treasured Bible was not in the car. 
  
Retracing his route, he returned to his Daphne home to find the lost Bible but to no avail. John brokenheartedly made his way to church without the Bible. As he arrived, he saw the smiling face of Mert McKeithen. Mert held up the Bible and asked, “Are you looking for this?” 
  
John wondered, “How did it beat me here?”
  
Brad Daniels, an English teacher at Vigor High School in Prichard, found John’s missing Bible on his way to Sunday School at Jubilee Baptist Church, Daphne. Brad said he did not like to see any book in the road and when he discovered it was a Bible, he felt that way even more. 
  
Brad found an offering envelope inside with a check to First, Spanish Fort. He also saw the current date on it. When he arrived at the church with the Bible, my wife, Sharon, met him at the door and he asked her to help him find the owner. She took the Bible to John’s Sunday School class and gave it to Mert, who offered the final act of assistance.
  
“When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also … But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and has been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works” (2 Tim. 1:5; 3:14–17).