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It was a rainy December evening in Georgia. Lavonda Wright Myers was driving with her son on the way to dinner when she saw a young man walking alone on the road.

Myers said he was “walking at the speed of lightning with headphones on. My son asked me to slow down so he could check on his friend.”

“The young man was relentlessly in a rush, walking to work saying ‘I can’t be late.’ “

Eighteen-year-old Jayden Sutton would leave school at 3:30pm., then walk miles to his job at a restaurant. After his shift, which usually lasted between six to eight hours, he would walk home, sometimes not arriving back until almost midnight.

“I knew if I had to walk to work every day to get a car, that’s what I was going to do,” Sutton said. “If I had to walk home, then that’s what I was going to do.”

When Wright caught up with him that rainy night, Sutton asked her for a ride.

“I told him I could take him as far as I was going.”

They had a little small talk, and Wright learned about his grueling schedule.

“Immediately my heart got full. I was literally holding back tears, tore up. I said, baby I’ll be taking you all the way to work. Forget my plans for now. I started declaring over his life and speaking in faith to his need.”

“My son started to look out the window with that look like ‘Momma, not now please.’”

She asked Sutton why he wasn’t able to use a ride-sharing service like Uber or Lyft and he explained he was helping at home and saving for a car.

Wright told Sutton she would pay for his Uber for the rest of the week.

“He said “ma’am I just met you but I see why your son Jailen talks about you and shares what a blessing you are to him.”

But Wright wasn’t done.

Myers shared Sutton’s story on a GoFundMe page — which raised nearly $7,000 in two days.

Wright then went to a local Honda dealership and purchased a car for Sutton using a $7,000 personal check.

Myers said she added $635 of her own money to reach that amount after the general manager of the dealership agreed to drop the car’s price down from around $7,800.

We need more love in this world,” she said. “Hate and division has plagued this world and I’m determined to do my part, one person at a time.”

After being presented with his new car Sutton could barely express his appreciation to Myers, saying, “I just want to thank you so much, you don’t even understand how much.”

But he also had a message for those striving to achieve their goals.

“If you’re doing something good or trying to reach a goal keep doing it. You might get some help. That’s what happened to me.”