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~~~ Here's to Mom! ~~~ My mother taught me IRONY - "Keep laughing and I'll give you something to cry about." My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE WHAT I HAVE - "It's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick." My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE - "If you're going to kill each other…

> Why We Love Kids > >> > >>I was driving with my three young children one warm summer evening > >>when a > >>woman in the convertible ahead of us stood up and waved. She was > >>stark > >>naked! As I was reeling from the shock, I heard my five-year-old > >>shout from > >>the back seat, "Mom! That lady…

5/2/2004 A 70-year-old grandfather was asked by his young grandson how things have changed since he was a kid. His reply is worth reading. "Well, let me think a minute. I was born before television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox, contact lenses, Frisbees and the pill. There weren't things…

THE STORY I was born in 1725, and I died 1807. The only godly influence in my life, as far back as I can remember, was my mother, whom I had for only seven years. When she left my life through death, I was virtually an orphan. My father remarried, sent me to a strict military school, where the severity…

God recently allowed me to see Jesus through the eyes of someone seeing Him for the first time. Having the advantage of knowing how the story ends, we can easily forget the cost of our redemption and the love of our Savior.

This is a statement that was read over the PA system at the football game at Roane County High School, Kingston , Tennessee , by school Principal, Jody McLeod. "It has always been the custom at Roane County High School football games, to say a prayer and play the National Anthem, to honor God and Country."…

When Fairfield, CA police responded to a report of an automobile crash they arrested the impaired driver. But the story doesn’t end there. It was Mother’s Day and the driver was in the process of delivering flowers. So, the officers made the rest of the deliveries that the driver could not make. https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/fairfield-police-deliver-mothers-day-flowers-after-driver-arrested-for-dui/2540322/…

Six-year-old Daphne Kenny found a surprise in the cereal aisle that made her trip to grocery extra special. While she, her sister, and mother were shopping Daphne pulled a piece of paper from the shelf beside a box of cereal. Her mother thought it might be someone’s grocery list, but it turned out to…

For their Mother’s day edition, Time magazine asked influential moms to write open letters to their children. Laila Ali, the daughter of Muhammed Ali, wrote the following to her two children, Sydney and Curtis. “I love you when you win, I love you when you lose. I love you no matter what, because you…

Mother’s Day in Mexico has traditionally been one of the country’s most festive days. The devastating violence among drug gangs has filtrated into schools and neighborhoods. Currently Mother’s Day has become a somber affair. Perhaps the saddest display is an annual silent march down Mexico City’s elegant…

The average person speaks about 16,000 words in a day. The less chatty speaking only 700 words with the most talkative topping out at 47,000 words a day. --Richard Knox, “Study: Men Talk Just as Much as Women.” All things Considered, NPR radio. Accessed 72621. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11762186…

Eight-year-old Greyson Winfield keeps busy feeding the hungry and mowing lawns for first responders and single mothers. Greyson told his parents that he wanted to help people, so they helped him start an organization called Helping Footprint. Greyson’s organization collects donations for buying food…

At his first press conference after being named head coach for the North Carolina Tar Heels, Coach Hubert Davis was asked, “Can you briefly talk about your faith and how that plays into your family and your job now?” He responded by saying, “Yeah, that's the most important thing to me. You know, my faith…

Eric White dropped out of high school and was homeless at the age of 15, but his life is drastically different today, after he persevered on and refused to give up. White’s parents divorced when he was in ninth grade, and he was forced to drop out of school to help his mother pay the bills. When his…

Michael Knapinski, 45 was hiking on Washington’s Mount Rainer when he was caught in a Blizzard. Lost in white out conditions, he became unconscious. The next afternoon a helicopter search crew spotted him and flew him to the hospital. In the helicopter they detected a very faint pulse but when they admitted…

On October 21, 2019 Northern Ireland ended the protection for unborn babies opening the door for legal abortion. One traditional Unionist Voice leader Jim Allister, “This is an exceptionally dark day for one community in Northern Ireland, and that’s the community of the unborn.” —Jim L. Wilson and Rodger…

When three-year-old Lydia became afraid to go to daycare because she was being bullied, Batman came to her rescue. Lydia’s mother Erica became concerned because daughter kept coming home with from daycare with bruises on her face, and one day with a black eye that she would not talk about. Erica put…

Danny Holmes is guilty of robbery, kidnapping, murder, and a few other crimes. He has been in jail for a while now; he committed the crimes in 2016. One day recently he looked at a notebook on which he’d written the lyrics to the song “Redeemed” by Big Daddy Weave. The words were, “Then you look at this…

Father’s Day will never be the same for Thomas and Mark Willoughby. Mark was diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis in 1994 and recently discovered he had stage two liver cancer during a routine doctor visit. The doctor wanted to Mark to consider a transplant immediately so he get the liver out before the…

Bloomfield Colorado police officer Carolyn Becker has a special connection to a young man she has never met and has found ways to go above and beyond the call of duty to help him. Becker had wanted to help someone by being a live organ donor. She inquired about one person, but was not a suitable match.…

Seattle residents knew Alan Naiman for his thriftiness. He patched his shoes with duct tape, buying food at the end of the day at the supermarket, and taking his friends to lunch at fast-food restaurants. Friends said Naiman was not married and had no children. Though he was intensely private, he stockpiled…

Kara Tippett took a question posed by Martin Luther, “What will you do in the mundane days of faithfulness?” and intended to write a blog with topics like the daily grind of laundry, screaming kids, and getting dinner on the table. She would write of living by faith through the everyday weariness and…

Richard Mayer was a brand new police recruit working at his very first shift. He and his partner took a lunch break at the local Chick-fil-A. A young mother in the restaurant, Melanie Hasse, rushed up to the officers and said her 15-month-old daughter was choking on a piece of apple. Mayer jumped to…