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In You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times, Max Lucado writes, “Forgiveness vacillates like this. It has fits and starts, good days and bad. Anger intermingled with love. Irregular mercy. We make progress only to make a wrong turn. Step forward and fall back. But this is okay.…

In a recent survey of 2000 Moms and their children, the kids listed the following as something a “Cool Mom” will not do: • “Using their home nickname in front of their friends (42%),” • “Shouting their name at a sports game or other event (40%),” • “And dancing in public (40%).” In short, the kids say…

Why do people gossip? Nicholas DiFonzo, Professor of Psychology at the Rochester Institute of Technology says “This last desire informs us of perhaps the nastiest motive in gossip, moral rationalization-that feeling of glee to learn that someone else is worse than we are. Relatively speaking, we must…

Mandy Gorton, the owner of Roots Café in Naples, New York received a card from one of her regular customers a couple of weeks after indoor dining was shut down due to COVID-19 restrictions. She said, “It was a beautiful card expressing their concern for us being able to survive the shutdown and their…

Michael Todd went to a new school where he was the target of taunts and laughter. He did not have new clothes and was feeling very left out. Two of the kids piling on were Garrett and Kristopher Graham, a pair of freshman football players. The Graham brothers began to realize what they were doing was…

Will Carroll, the drummer for thrash metal band Death Angel, spent twelve days in a medically induced coma after being diagnosed with the Covid-19 virus and experienced strong visions. Will said he “saw himself leave his body and plummet down to hell, where Satan punished him for the deadly sin of sloth.…

Minnesota state trooper Brian Schwartz could have ticketed Dr. Janjua when he pulled her over. Instead, he gave her a warning and a lecture, telling her it was “irresponsible” for her to be speeding—she could have gotten into an accident and would not be available to help her patients. What he did next…

Over the last 42 years, Bernie Carroll has earned the title of “Britain’s Angriest Man.” What did he do to earn it? He has been sending opinionated letters to his local newspaper every day. He originally focused his letters on the Liverpool city council. Over the years he expanded his rantings to topics…

Axel Johnson’s excitement turned into fear quickly as he got on the big yellow bus for the first time to go to kindergarten. He began to cry. Isabel Lane, the bus driver, reached behind her and grabbed the little boy’s hand. Axel’s mother, Amy Johnson, snapped a photo of the bus driver’s kind gesture…

In his book, Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You, Andy Stanley writes, "Greed is conquered with generosity. Generous giving will break the grip of greed on your life. So whether or not you think you have extra, give and give generously. You’ve got to give to the…

In his book, Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You, Andy Stanley writes, "If you’re a Christian, you aren’t expected to treat others the way you’ve been treated by others; you’ve been called to treat people the way you’ve been treated by your Father in heaven. You…

A new study that analyzed security camera footage found that: “91% of the time, bystanders watching the incidents [aggressive fights] intervened to, physically gesturing for an aggressor to calm down, physically blocking an aggressor or pulling an aggressor away, consoling the victim.” —Jim L. Wilson…

A life wracked with teenage angst and the horrors that await many in the trials of the modern American High School is the setting for the book, Thirteen Reasons Why, which has been made into a Netflix Series by the same name. Hannah Baker has done the unthinkable; she has ended her own life, rather than…

The Institute of Labor Economics found that both males and wealthy people are more likely to pretend to know what they’re talking about, when they really have no clue. In the study the participants were asked to discuss nonexistent mathematical concepts such as “proper numbers” and “declarative fractions.”…

The Bible never tells us to forgive and forget, but imagine how easy it would be to forgive others if we could forget. A teen in North Carolina knows all about that. Since suffering a concussion during track practice in 2017, every night when she sleeps her mind resets and purges her memories of the…

Saturday Night Live (SNL) is known for commenting and lightening the mood around serious topics. Most of the time their humor is well received and lighthearted, however, in the fall of 2018, a cast member made fun of Congressman elect Dan Crenshaw. Congressman Crenshaw is a war hero and was a member…

Seth Marko owns a bookstore in San Diego. After a medical incident, doctors told him that he needed emergency open-heart surgery. He was not sure what would happen to his store, the Book Catapult. Scott Ehrig-Burgess is the manager of a rival bookstore nearby. Ehrig-Burgess offered to run the Catapult…

A man wearing a jacket with the logo of the New England Patriots went into a rural Vermont Walmart and paid the bill of dozens of shoppers and offered to cover any items they had put on layaway. Julie Ann Gates was a customer at the time and had difficulty believing the man’s largesse. When the man said…

Hundreds of unsuspecting people across the country were surprised when messengers gave them two bouquets of flowers, asking them to keep one and give the other bouquet to someone else. The flower giveaway was a campaign sponsored by the Society of American Florists called “Petal It Forward.” A spokesperson…

Recently some people spotted Geoffrey Owens, an actor on the Cosby show, working as a cashier at a Trader Joes store. They posted on social media and shamed him for such a lowly job. He responded, “Every job is worthwhile and valuable.” He received a lot of public support for encouraging people to think…

While studies show that bonobos (a type of chimpanzee found in the Congo) prefer those who win, regardless of how they won, humans are not that way. In a study conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, researchers found that children between 21 months and 31 months like the…