Inspirational Stories / Motivational Stories

Dennis

By Lori Ravelli on February 01, 2021 / 3,946 views

I want to tell you about a man living on the beach, how he came to love my dogs, How we came to love him, and how our lives are forever changed. I would like to share a story how we helped change the life of someone who was sleeping on a beach waiting to die. This is also a story where the name could easily be replaced with many. With the troubling economy, so many people and especially single mothers out of...

A Knitting Project That Keeps Going

By Leann Leedom on February 01, 2021 / 3,570 views

I am a proud mother of three children, my last little one being delivered in the middle of this pandemic. She was born in August and her name is Aida. Shortly after having Aida my mother in law Ann showed me something she learned from her friends mother in an art class she attended weekly. She had a loom and showed me how to knit a scarf. She showed me one stitch and gave me a small loom with her...

Behind School Doors

By Kasey Lynne on January 29, 2021 / 3,768 views

By Kasey Lynne on January 29, 2021 / 3,768 views

Yesterday, one of our kiddos didn't want to go to school. They were having a little breakdown as we were trying to get them into the classroom. Mr. Burwick walked down the hall and saw the struggles. Instantly, he jumped into action and laid on the floor, talking with this little one. He began explaining how, at times, he doesn't want to go to school, but he does so because it's fun to learn new...

Thank You To These Sweethearts

By A Friend on January 27, 2021 / 3,060 views

My brother is autistic and has tourettes, and he plays Fortnite a lot with my Dad. They don't play online with others much, especially not with voice chat on because my brother is quite loud and people get mad at him and often insult him. But this one time, they joined these two older-sounding lads, and didn't turn their mics off. Ryan was being himself, very excitable and making sounds, and...

Love Matters

By Lettie on January 22, 2021 / 4,034 views

When I met and married a kind Japanese man in NYC, I thought he would learn a bit more English and we would continue to live our lives there. But in life's twists and turns we ended up living in Tokyo! I was the one who needed to learn Japanese...and fast! There is no experience quite as lonely as living in a foreign country without a grasp of the language. Especially to make friends and to break that...

Thank You To The Woman I Have Never Met, Who Sends Me Love Notes Randomly Throughout The Year

By A Friend on January 22, 2021 / 3,941 views

We have met, just not in person. I am a mortgage banker so I do my financial transactions over the phone and computer. This lady is a borrower of mine and I have done two of her refinances over the past couple of years. She is not a woman that is my mother‘s age, not a grandmotherly type of client, because men or women of that age are always very loving and they check up on me. This woman is my...

Because Of Love

By Shining Brown on January 20, 2021 / 4,730 views

Last month I took my son Tom to see his grandparents in the countryside. When we arrived, my father and mother were so happy to see us. Tom’s nana hugged and kissed Tom excitedly. Then his grandpa took him to the yard to play. My mom went to her kitchen to prepare our meal. I knew my Tom was curious about everything in his grandparents’ home, and he would be very excited. At lunch table,...

At A Crossroads

By Joseph J. Mazzella on January 18, 2021 / 3,802 views

It was the Summer of my 16th year. I was 2000 miles away from home and my heart was aching. I had traveled from the mountains of West Virginia to the great plains of Iowa. I was with a group of boys touring a Seminary college. When the trip had first started I was filled with excitement. It was going to be a week of adventure, a week of travel, and the possibility of starting on a new path in my life. Now 5...

Never Forget To Be Polite

By @Sagihairius on January 14, 2021 / 4,570 views

By @Sagihairius on January 14, 2021 / 4,570 views

I work as an actor at a haunted house and this little girl who was dressed as a cat came through she saw me and was like "no thank you please dont get closer I am already scared" and I was like alright I appreciate the good manners I'll back off. So her dad picks her up and starts going down the rest of my dark hall and I just hear her yell "everybody wait! i dropped my ears"...

A Pen, A Dollar, A Toy

By A Friend on January 14, 2021 / 6,118 views

By A Friend on January 14, 2021 / 6,118 views

I asked my dad if I have ever made him cry in front of me before, because I don't remember ever seeing him cry. He said, "Once." He told me that when I was 3 years old, he laid out a pen, a dollar, and a toy of some sort in front of me. He wanted to see which one I would pick. l think that a lot of Chinese people do that... It represents what you'll value most when you...

Fish And Chips

By A Friend on January 11, 2021 / 4,059 views

By A Friend on January 11, 2021 / 4,059 views

My dad went to clean an old ladies oven, she called the company before and asked if he could pick her up some fish and chips for lunch as she couldn't leave the house. He sent me this picture of him sat with her, eating lunch together an keeping her company. To say I cried, the purest heart to ever live. He wouldn't share it so I just had...

A Tree In The Road

By Joseph J. Mazzella on January 05, 2021 / 6,089 views

The mountains where I live are full of turning, twisting, narrow, curvy roads. I was driving down one of those roads last Spring. Days of on and off rain had made the ground muddy and hillsides mushy. As I rounded a curve I saw that the weakened soil had released a tree on the hill by the road. It was now laying on the asphalt blocking my lane. I hit the brakes and slowly drove around it. Then I stopped. I...

Helping A Friend

By A Friend on January 04, 2021 / 3,675 views

By A Friend on January 04, 2021 / 3,675 views

I’ve hosted a friend since November due to their depression. Today she made her bed for the first time. She's at the store right...

The Day After Christmas

By Joseph J. Mazzella on December 28, 2020 / 4,512 views

It was the day after Christmas 33 years ago. I was newly married and still in college. Only 10 days earlier my wife had gone into labor with our first child. It was a scary delivery that ended in an emergency C-section. We were so grateful to have Joseph John Mazzella II also known as JJ sleeping peacefully in the cradle next to our bed. The day before we had been on the road showing off our little...

My Neighbors Just Made My Whole Year

By A Friend on December 27, 2020 / 3,780 views

Something nice that I definitely needed tonight. For the past 15 years, my family (all 13 of us that are local) has gone Christmas caroling in my neighborhood, it’s tradition. We aren’t good at it, but we love doing it. It’s the one time of the year we can see some of our neighbors that we don’t see regularly, and in general, do something fun. This year, for...

Kindness Is Like Boomerang!

By Judith Maduhu on December 22, 2020 / 5,401 views

So I and my two girlfriends were taking an evening walk one beautiful day when one of my friend's sandals just snapped. We were in the middle of our way back home and it was really a long way to go, as we were trying to figure out what to do and try some failed DIY's we heard a gentle male voice say 'hey girls i think i can help with that'... We were delighted to hear that and the...

Donation To Homeless Shelter

By Courtney on December 18, 2020 / 4,820 views

By Courtney on December 18, 2020 / 4,820 views

I'd just like to share something my children have done. My daughter is 9 and my son is 6. Recognizing that this has been a very difficult year for a lot of people my daughter decided that she would like to raise money for our local homeless shelter. After some discussion we came up with the idea of having a math-athon and the children completed math problems and solicited...