The Gospel more than anything else is good news! We all know that, but how often we forget. A news story that appeared recently in USA Today might serve as a helpful parable. It seems that many McDonald’s restaurants, rather than using bank bags and armored trucks, move their daily cash intake by putting the money in regular carry-out paper bags and handing the bag to a drive-thru courier. The plan conceals the fact that a large amount of money is leaving the store.

In Euclid, Ohio, though, one McDonald’s store was a bit too clever. They handed the bag of concealed cash to an anonymous customer who drove up to the window to pick up his meal. For all we know he may still be anonymous-if he decided to keep the money.

Imagine driving though the drive-thru expecting a Big Mac, an order of fr…