Inspirational Stories / Motivational Stories

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An Acorn

By Joseph J. Mazzella on August 23, 2021 / 3,221 views

When I was a boy we lived 4 miles outside of town. My two brothers were 5 and 7 years older than me. For those reasons I spent a lot of time playing alone. I didn’t mind too much, though. We lived right next to the forest and I would spend hours every day playing in it with the oak and maple trees as my companions. I would climb up their limbs, sit in their shade, and soak up their peace. That...

How Much We Take For Granted

By Kathy on August 19, 2021 / 2,701 views

Today I was lucky to have met a beautiful lady who I just happened to be standing behind at the checkout at our local shops she was in a gopher and was trying to pay for her shopping. Her card kept declining, she was short by 5 dollars. I heard her apologies to the cashier and she said I will have to put something back. I told the cashier it's ok I will pay it for her. She looked at me and burst...

I Had The Most Kindest Thing Happen At My Local Shopping Center

By Abbie on August 19, 2021 / 2,318 views

I had the most kindest thing happen at my local shopping center yesterday. Me and my kids were there to get a couple of birthday presents for others, I was telling my son that we were just looking and he can wait for his own birthday to get something when a kind elderly lady came up to us with what he was looking at in her hand and asked me if I'd mind if she got it for my son. I...

Start Feeling Young

By Joseph J. Mazzella on August 19, 2021 / 2,801 views

I woke up this morning after a particularly bad dream. I tried to doze back off but my aging body insisted it was time to use the bathroom again so I slowly got up. My back felt as tight as a drum. I stretched and twisted and heard the ususal “Crack! Crack! Crack!” I stumbled into the bathroom, did my business, and then went over to the sink to get a sip of water. I stared at the face in the...

Windshield Note

By Melonie on August 19, 2021 / 2,423 views

I was doing my shopping at a local supermarket and came back to my car to see what I thought was a fine on my windshield. I looked at the parking sign which was 1.5 hours and I knew that I was less than an hour. I picked up the envelope and looked inside to find the most beautiful act of kindness. Whoever you are out there: you made my day! Thank...

I Enjoy Exercise Tape

By Kay Heitsch on August 19, 2021 / 2,490 views

Years ago, I could not stand to exercise until I bought a cassette tape called "I Enjoy Exercise." I listened to it every day. I purchased the cassette tape because I wanted to run in a race and hopefully win! I had committed to our 16-year-old son Todd that I would run in a race with him. Unfortunately, however, when that race came about, he had died. So I took part in that race without...

Weeds

By Joseph J. Mazzella on August 17, 2021 / 2,488 views

It had been hot and muggy in the mornings for this last week, but this morning the weather was better. The air was cool and smelled sweet. The sun was slowly rising from behind the trees. The moon was at 3 quarters full and looked like a smiling face peeking around a doorway. I could see 3 hummingbirds zooming around in ariel acrobatics around my daughter’s feeder. In the sky the pink and purple in the...

Vulgar Graffiti Into Art

By Jason on August 17, 2021 / 1,844 views

We live in a town called Atglen, Pennsylvania. Some vandals decided to spray paint pictures of mostly male human anatomy on the pavement on our street. All the neighbors were not pleased and wondered how we could remove the graffiti. My kids 12 and 10 decided that they wanted to turn something obscene and inappropriate into something nice. We broke out the box of sidewalk chalk...

Missing Stuffie

By A Friend on August 12, 2021 / 2,441 views

This is a heartwarming story shared from a Facebook group in Canada. A mother reached out about a missing stuffed animal that her son had lost and was hoping someone had a similar one. "Anyone have one at home willing to sell? Any colour accepted," she wrote in the post. A local grandma saw the post and responded with a photo of the exact stuffed...

I Witnessed A Real Life Angel

By A Friend on August 09, 2021 / 3,613 views

I’m a cashier at a grocery store and the other day I had a mother and her 4-5 year old daughter in my line. An elderly woman comes up to the little girl and asks if she has a doll. She says yes, and then the older woman asks if she would like a bed for her doll. She said yes, again. As the older woman is walking out to her car the mother started tearing up and told me that their house burnt down two...

Guy Gets To Feel Like A Kid Again Instead Of Being Seen As Creepy

By A Friend on August 09, 2021 / 2,279 views

I live in an apartment complex that has a bunch of little kids. During the original lockdowns I would go outside to walk around and get out and one day one of the kids launched a soccer ball my direction and without thinking I headed the ball back to them and they said something like “WHOA! Do it again! Do it again!” And I was hesitant at first because I’m bald 31 year old with a large beard...

Fro-Yo

By A Friend on August 03, 2021 / 3,515 views

I was crying pulling into a parking spot to treat myself to fro yo because I was having a day. I caught a glimpse of a teenage girl and dad in the car next to me while I was crying. When I came back after eating the fro yo, their car was gone but this was in my door...

Meeps

By Helen on August 02, 2021 / 2,734 views

I am lucky enough to have a beautiful neighbour called Chloe Rose . She recently put a shout out on local fb pages, we live in the Macedon Ranges near Melbourne, asking if anyone would like one of the gorgeous "Meeps" she has crafted herself. Chloe doesn't want money in return, all she asks is that the receiver passes the kindness on. Her aim is to spread cheer and brighten...

A Family To Bless

By Rochelle on August 02, 2021 / 2,536 views

Just yesterday someone I didn't personally knew messaged me and said that she was looking for a family to bless that day, and that God directed her to us, it was an answered prayer because God knew we were financially struggling at this time. She sent me $50 Au, enough to buy my two babies food and milk. My initial plan was to keep some of it and use to buy even a small Peppa Pig cake for my...

Every Single Thing

By Joseph J. Mazzella on July 27, 2021 / 6,918 views

"I just don’t know what my purpose, what my mission in this life is!," a friend wrote me in an e-mail recently. For some reason her letter awakened an old memory in me so I wrote her back and shared this with her. When I was a young Dad my family was struggling just to get by. I was getting a few days work here and there as a substitute teacher. I was teaching every subject and every...

An Old Wet Dog

By Joseph J. Mazzella on July 27, 2021 / 3,330 views

It was several years ago. The air was cool, rain was falling, and it felt more like early Spring than early Summer. I was sitting at the desk I am sitting at now working on my old computer when I saw him. He was an old, wet dog walking up the hill to my house. His furry face was a grizzly white. The leather collar around his neck was faded, worn, and tagless. I could see the ribs sticking out of his sides and...

Anj

By Sigrid on July 24, 2021 / 2,619 views

Yesterday I posted on Facebook a photo of me overlooking the ocean with the title‚ Missing my family 😞. I haven’t seen my family, which lives overseas, in almost 2 years due to Covid, and the longer it takes, the more disconnected I feel. Today my doorbell rang. I opened the door and found an Uber eats' bag sitting in front of me. I was very surprised as I hadn’t ordered...