Inspirational Stories / Motivational Stories

Now, Today, And Always

By Joseph J. Mazzella on February 28, 2018 / 4,535 views

I have a little clock on the bottom right hand side of my computer screen that always tells me what time it is. I also have a clock hanging on my wall. I have two alarm clocks in my bedroom. I have a clock in my car. Every time I look at my cell phone or house phone too, there is the time looking up at me. But the older I get the less I find myself paying attention to any of them. I stopped wearing a watch...

Dad's Promise To His Daughter

By Billbapapa on February 26, 2018 / 5,285 views

By Billbapapa on February 26, 2018 / 5,285 views

Someone asked "What is something you always carry with you no matter where you go? Why?" on a forum. This was my favorite response: "When my daughter was 3 or 4 years old, I took her to Chuck E Cheese. When it was time for...

Where's Harvey?

By Kay Heitsch on February 24, 2018 / 3,615 views

Yesterday was our 49th Wedding Anniversary. We thought it would be fun to surprise our best man, Harvey*. We hadn't seen him in 49 years. Over the years we've moved many times between 4 states and we always had unlisted phone numbers. We'd think of Harvey from time to time wondering where he was and how he was doing. Finally, last year I got online and much to my surprise...

A Little Yellow Face

By Joseph J. Mazzella on February 22, 2018 / 4,826 views

It had been a long winter. Bitter cold, snowy days had hit us again and again. On the warmer days there had been little sunshine only cold, icy rain. The sun had become such a rare sight that I had taken to looking at a picture of it on my wall calendar to remember what it looked like. The grass had remained brown and dormant in the meadows. The deer had come out of the woods and started digging through the...

Be Faithful

By Glory Fu on February 20, 2018 / 4,438 views

Be faithful to your parents. Listen to your parents. Never forget they gave you life, nurture you, and educate you. Be faithful to your spouse. Love him or her as the apple of your eye. Be faithful to your friends. Never say untrue words about them. Be faithful to those church pastors, or leaders. They have paid a high price for their faith, for God, for you and me. Be faithful to God. God redeemed us from sin...

Cancer At 22? Impossible!

By Zahra on February 20, 2018 / 4,096 views

My name is Zahra* and I am a warrior! I am sharing my story in the hope that if you or a loved one has been recently diagnosed with cancer, it will take you beyond the and help you through the difficult days ahead. Exactly 4 months after my wedding, I started having killing headaches. I was in great shape otherwise, so I was not particularly concerned when the emergency room doctor told me he needed...

Just Doing The Lord's Work

By Lexi on February 20, 2018 / 3,947 views

By Lexi on February 20, 2018 / 3,947 views

My tire blew up while on the highway. This man pulled over on the side of the road and spent the next 40 minutes helping me replace my tire. He said he was a local preacher, and when I offered money for his help he said that he was just doing the Lord's work. What a...

To My Little One

By Jcontrench on February 19, 2018 / 3,836 views

I'm not the greatest man alive. I can't even begin to explain the kind of stories you will hear about me, love. Surely some old mate will come and visit and then you'll hear about the time I did this or that and I'll try to change the subject. I don't have a good past, I'm afraid. I have to be a role model now but I used to skip school all the damn time to do drugs and play...

I Have Decided To Follow My Dream

By Beetsaladwithwalnuts on February 19, 2018 / 3,839 views

I have always loved fish. Is it weird to love fish? When I was five my dad told us he was taking my brother and I on a fishing day a few hours away, from the car I shouted AQUARIUM! I read the sign. I was five, my dad loves that story and bragging about my reading ability for my age at the time. My parents wanted to throw me a big party for my sixteenth birthday. Instead I asked them for a fish...

God's Math

By Joseph J. Mazzella on February 17, 2018 / 4,931 views

When I was young I was great at math. I had started playing cards with my Mom, Dad, Nana, and brothers when I was only four years old. All of those pleasant evenings at the kitchen table playing “Knock” and “Rummy” had made me very good at addition and subtraction. It gave me a head start over the other first graders. I was soon at the top of my math class and I stayed there until high...

My Faith In Humanity Has Been Restored...

By BON on February 15, 2018 / 5,440 views

Today while I was at work, I was feeling pretty down. I have less than $20.00 in my bank account and live about an hour away from work. So I use quite a lot of gas (about a quarter tank every day I have to work). Well I needed to get gas today, badly, and with gas prices pretty moderately high, I knew I wouldn't have enough to fill my tank and keep it full until pay day (this friday). So I told a random...

7 Principles To Live By For A Great Life

By DLS on February 14, 2018 / 17,526 views

By DLS on February 14, 2018 / 17,526 views

A reasonable life can be achieved by anyone. An OK life, an OK job, OK relationships - anyone can have these. If you want a great life, you must commit to it. Doing things, the majority do not do. Commit to thinking like the minority, not the majority. Here are 7 principles to live by for an abundant, happy, succesful life: 1. One day you will be gone. Maybe in 50 years,...

Ch'e'e'h Sinn'sid (She Woke Me Up)

By Dezba Chooli on February 14, 2018 / 2,998 views

If you’re a Domestic Violence, Sexual Abuse or Assault survivor, you may often hear someone tell you, “write it out.” My fellow teachers tell me it helps survivors, since I am a quiet person, I will try to express in my writing. Another day on the, “Rez,” but I know on this day I had a break through. My Lay Advocate Sylvia Rose Viarrial and it’s whispered “an...

Obstacles In Our Path

By Sunny Skyz on February 12, 2018 / 5,515 views

There once was a very wealthy and curious king. This king had a huge boulder placed in the middle of a road. Then he hid nearby to see if anyone would try to remove the gigantic rock from the road. The first people to pass by were some of the king’s wealthiest merchants and courtiers. Rather than moving it, they simply walked around it. A few loudly blamed the King for not maintaining the...

Winter Work

By Joseph J. Mazzella on February 09, 2018 / 3,977 views

It was Groundhog Day and the furry rodent had just predicted 6 more weeks of Winter. A winter storm had hit overnight too. I tried to open my backdoor only to find six inches of wet, heavy snow piled up against it. I knew I had quite a job of shoveling out ahead of me, so I reached over to grab my snow shovel. It looked a lot more ready to work than I did. I sighed and pulled on my boots, gloves, and heavy...

Human Touch

By Hansa Rajput on February 08, 2018 / 4,734 views

Home of Faith. Does the name ring a bell? Yes, you guessed right, it's the obscure little orphanage you over look every time you pass by the gate of our college campus. An upsetting majority of us will navigate these four arduous years without sparing so much as a second glance for this forgotten place. Until last year, I was part of the herd too. But thanks to my roommate, I had the good fortune of...

Hand Me Downs

By Joseph J. Mazzella on February 05, 2018 / 5,348 views

Aside from socks and underwear at Christmas and an occasional new pair of sneakers, I never got any new clothes as a child. What I got were hand-me-downs. My coats, jackets, shirts, sweaters, pants, and even belts were all clothes that my older brothers had out grown and then been given to me. My clothes were often torn, sewed, and patched. They were never “in style.” I didn’t resent having...