Inspirational Stories / Motivational Stories

God Will Turn Eleven On Her Next Birthday

By A.G. Dumas on July 04, 2017 / 2,318 views

Except for my maternal grandmother (who’s no longer with us), ours was a non-religious family on both sides. Nonnie was a widow since I was a toddler and she came to stay on weekends. I was her first grandchild and the oldest by a number of years, so it became the mission of her “second life” to see that I got religion. I was never a totally willing communicant because I was never quite sure...

Sylvia Rose Viarrial - She Was Not Only My Lay Advocate, She Is My Angel

By Aponi Awan on June 30, 2017 / 3,916 views

I never write these type of stories but what was my Lay Advocate and is my "angel," Sylvia Rose Viarrial has taught me many things. One major thing I will carry on hoping it will give hope to another survivor of Domestic Violence and Sexual assault. When I met Sylvia Rose Viarrial, I had just got my daughter taken away and given to her abusive father, not because of any neglect or abuse on...

Parenting Champs

By Clint Edwards on June 30, 2017 / 3,532 views

By Clint Edwards on June 30, 2017 / 3,532 views

I'm at the Spokane airport waiting for a flight to Portland. I was speaking at a conference. This is one of the few times I've traveled without kids in the past few years, and so I'm taking it in. But I can't help but notice this couple. I've watched them for awhile. I hope they don't mind me posting this, but these two deserve to be noticed because they are...

Evidence

By Joseph J. Mazzella on June 29, 2017 / 3,135 views

I was preparing to shave my fifty year old face this morning when I noticed something: my wrinkles no longer disappear when I relax my face. They have become permanent etchings in my skin. I know too that the television and internet are full of advertisements for creams, treatments, and botox to ease and lessen these permanent wrinkles but as I looked at mine in the mirror I decided that it would be far better...

I Hope This Helps Someone

By Austiz on June 28, 2017 / 2,630 views

Back about 20 months ago I started college and just struggled with everything, classes, friends, girls... I quickly became depressed, angry at myself for not being about to do better in school, in addition to lack of friends due to poor social and communication skills. This went on for months, until my 19th birthday. My parents sent me a cake, it was a great cake, but I remember having this large...

How My Life Changed Since I Stopped Drinking

By The Voyage Time on June 27, 2017 / 5,069 views

By The Voyage Time on June 27, 2017 / 5,069 views

The way alcohol is marketed they make it seam that as long as you are not sleeping on a cardboard box on a rainy sidewalk, you don't have a problem, but drinking, at least like the way I did, had so many consequences it is truly astounding to see, now that I have space from my drinking days. I got sober 416 days ago and my life has completely turned around in so many ways it is kind of crazy. I...

Compilation Of Life Pieces

By Jade VanBuren on June 27, 2017 / 2,381 views

One Big Pond As a child you think that nothing bad could ever happen to you. Every child growing up believes they are living in a perfect little glass house that could never shatter. In my case, my perfect little glass house shattered and I was left picking up all the pieces. A child does not ever think to themselves that their parents are going to split up, or that one of them is going to move to a...

I Decided To Stop Smoking Weed

By Anonymous on June 26, 2017 / 2,363 views

Three years ago I would smoke all day every day, and I decided I needed to change since me and my wife were struggling to make ends meet. I decided to do something about it since i have a son and did not want him to see me like that. I decided to distract myself from wanting to smoke and saying no to friends when they would invite me. It was hard at first because all my best friends smoked but everytime I...

Family

By JustAPerson on June 21, 2017 / 5,475 views

Twenty young adults sat in a room, each hunched over a desk and writing furiously. I hunch over my paper, but the words won’t come out. Instead, big fat globs fall onto my paper. In a room full of people, I feel desperately alone. Two hours later, I walk out of my senior English final. My teacher is in the hallway. “I didn’t like that first prompt,” I...

Kindness And A Bowl Of Soup

By Kash+MIke on June 21, 2017 / 5,905 views

Every time I reread this I am transported back to this particular act of kindness. I cut and paste it from my own blog and thought that this person's kindness just might encourage someone else as it did myself. LOSS… In 2007 my family and I suffered a profound loss. What started out as a seemingly perfect day, quickly descended into what can only be described as a living...

Where You Grow

By Joseph J. Mazzella on June 20, 2017 / 5,158 views

When I was a boy growing up in my Nana’s old house we had 4 huge gardens. Come June my Dad would be working the tiller while my Mom, brothers, and I would be planting the seeds. One garden held enough potatoes to feed us all year round. Others held corn, carrots, cabbages, onions, tomatoes, cantaloupes, and watermelons. There were also so many flowers. My Nana had a special love for them and nurtured...

To Value It, Invest In It

By Job Lazarus Okello on June 20, 2017 / 5,173 views

It's a known fact to man that for you to value something, you must invest in it. Therefore, invest in your life that you may value it. You are at school and want to value your education? Invest in it. To value your future, invest in it. For whatever you invest in, you'll treasure and hold in high regards. He who wastes his life hasn't really invested much in it. Those who don't take their...

Never Give Up: My Dad's Story, From Crack Head To Amazing Father

By Icarus649 on June 19, 2017 / 5,129 views

When my dad was seventeen, his father passed away and being the youngest of four siblings, without a father figure he got into a lot of bad stuff during the seventies and eighties. Eventually he got addicted to crack for over ten years, he then met my mother in Rehab because she was there supporting one of her good friends. Eventually I was born and he changed his life around and got a good job, he...

Young Man Helping And Older Man Down An Escalator

By Paula Accorsi Picard on June 18, 2017 / 2,606 views

By Paula Accorsi Picard on June 18, 2017 / 2,606 views

A little redemption for the suffering human soul. 😊 The older man was paused at the top of an escalator and a few people started gathering waiting to get on. It was clear he was feeling unsure and this young man offered the simplest kindness: an out-reached arm and a 'can I help you on, sir?' He quietly started to explain to the young man that he had gotten stuck on an escalator once and was a...

Top 15 Happiness Quotes By Matshona Dhliwayo

By Matshona Dhliwayo on June 17, 2017 / 5,548 views

1. A heart full of joy is better than a hand full of coins. 2. Pebbles that bring you joy are better than diamonds that bring you sorrow. 3. Smile if you want to be happy now; love if you want to be happy forever. 4. One who is bitter for one second can only look forward to fifty-nine seconds of bliss. 5. Joy in poverty is better than misery in riches; happiness in...

It's Taken Me 34 Years, But I'm Finally Living

By Liveloverun on June 15, 2017 / 1,964 views

I've lived my entire life doing what basically everyone expected me to do. I taught in the public school for 10 years, and even though I was exhausted and had a nagging feeling that it wasn't the career path for me, I stayed because people in my life were proud of me for being a teacher and I just didn't want to risk disappointing them. Also 10 years ago, I married a man that deep down I...

The Difference One Month Can Make

By J Warner on June 13, 2017 / 2,369 views

From January to May, I led an extremely inactive lifestyle, binging on video games and basically ignoring all aspects of my well being. I was for all intensive purposes addicted to the game I was playing. This addiction nearly ruined me mood wise, I was miserable to be around when I was even able to force myself to go to class or go out and socialize. I wanted to stop, and one day I did, just like...