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Officials at a British cathedral said a book that recently arrived in the mail may have been checked out from the facility’s library more than 300 years ago. Reverend Canon Keith Farrow, vice dean and canon missioner at Sheffield Cathedral said the book arrived in the mail along with a note explaining…

A visitor to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art helped find a missing piece of the “Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle” exhibition. While the woman was at the museum, she noticed that the artworks in the Lawrence exhibition looked like a painting she had seen in her neighbor’s apartment. She…

German police retrieved a $340,000 painting that was accidentally left behind by a businessman flying to Israel. Authorities said the man notified them after arriving in Tel Aviv when he discovered the painting by surrealist painter Yves Tanguy had been left in Dusseldorf. The man was so distraught that…

A cat brought into a shelter in Las Vegas was reunited with his family after being missing for ten years. The cat, named Logan, disappeared from a friend’s home and Heather Whitener said they were shocked to receive a call this week from the Animal Foundation saying the animal had been found. The Foundation…

Workers at a Tennessee recycling hub found a class ring from the local high school while materials and turned it over to officials hoping to return it to the owner. They found the ring was inscribed with the name Joel Fong, so they went through local records to locate the man and get in touch with him.…

Artists in Southern Florida have restored one of the most photographed tourist sites in the Florida Keys after it was damaged by Hurricane Irma. The red, yellow, black, and white marker is actually a 4-ton concrete moment marking the southernmost point in the Continental United States. It also says that…

A British art dealer shared a video highlighting the restoration of a 200 year-old oil painting. As restorers removed 200 years of varnish, the original vibrant colors reemerged. The dealer, Philip Mould, described the process as a restoration expert carefully used a brush to remove the yellowing build…

A Florida woman said that her high school ring keeps coming back to her every time it gets lost. Shannon Forester lost her ring the first time after a car accident in 1979. Her father found it a few months later in a pawn shop and bought it back for her. The second time Forester lost her ring; it turned…

A beach that disappeared more than 30 years ago reappeared along the rocky coastline of an island of coast of Ireland. The 300-meter beach near the town of Dooagh on Achill Island vanished in 1984 when a storm removed all of the sand, leaving a series of rocky pools. After a series of high tides in the…

Helen Wheeker and her husband, George Nobel flew to Ogdensburg, New York after an airline representative put them on the wrong plane. A spokesperson for the airline said a malfunctioning boarding-pass scanner did not catch the mix-up. The airline gave the couple a full refund and flew them back to Florida…

A mission in Mississippi helps people who have seen better days by teaching them to work on motorcycles owned by people who have also fallen on hard times. The Mission at the Cross houses 25 men at a time. Daily activities include mentoring and other programs to build character and develop new skills.…

For 20 years, people have been sticking their gum to the walls of an alley by Seattle’s Pike Place market. The market estimates that there are as many as one million pieces of gum on the wall. The “gum wall” as it is known, has become a popular landmark, and people have left pictures, cards and other…

A small study conducted by Johns Hopkins Medicine suggests that waking up several times during the night may be worse for your mood the next day than sleeping less than usual. Researchers found that the group whose sleep was interrupted had a 31 percent reduction in positive mood the following day, when…

A piece of space history that was thought to have been destroyed resurfaced and will be recovered. According to an article in the online magazine Motherboard, NASA officials believed the prototype lunar rover, built in 1965 had been scrapped. The next day, a classified ad showed up in an Alabama newspaper…

It just looked like a mutt wandering the streets. Further research found that it was a rare South African Mastiff stolen from his yard in Beaverdam, Virginia. What looked like a lonely mutt was actually a pure bred dog worth over $10,000. His owner was ecstatic to get him back. —Jim L. Wilson and Rodger…

A South African businessman was surprised when the police called him about his 1988 Toyota Corolla. Derick Goosen was surprised to learn that the car had been recovered at a vehicle roadblock in the northern part of the country. Goosen hadn’t thought about the car in years because it was stolen in 1993…

Guards say they accustomed to people leaving things like sunglasses or small items at airport security checkpoints, but were surprised to discover a diamond-encrusted Cartier watch left behind by a Japanese businessperson. The owner had already boarded his flight, but he sent a friend to pick it and…

Dean Sparks still say he is not sure why he decided to buy the rusty old 1959 Chevy Bel-Air at a Nebraska auto auction. He said for some reason the clunker with 92,000 miles stood out to him. After towing the car 800 miles to his home, Sparks began to take it apart. He found many old things inside, but…

In Shattered Dreams, Patrick Mead writes, “God doesn’t just want to restore your shattered dreams and broken lives—He has so much more in store for you. He doesn’t just want to make your live whole; He wants to use your pain to bring hope to others.” --Shattered Dreams, 106 Jeremiah 29:11 (NKJV) For…

Clarence Van Dyken remembers several things about 1959. Gas was twenty-five cents a gallon, and he earned $50 a week. That was also the year that he lost his wallet. As time passed, he never thought he would see it again, and life went on. Recently Van Dyken’s lost wallet was returned after the person…

In his book, Leading on Empty, Wayne Cordoro writes, “Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.” –Jim L. Wilson Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on empty : refilling your tank and renewing your passion. (Minneapolis, Minn: Bethany House, 2009),…

We have known for years that it was important for our health to get at least six hours of sleep per night. Now a new study indicates that getting more than nine hours is likewise unhealthy. That much sleep has been linked to an increased risk of heart disease, cognitive problems, and premature death.…

A theft in Michigan spent a lot of time thinking about their misdeeds. The person, who took $800 dollars from a store in the 1980s, apparently felt so bad about what he had done that he felt returned the money with interest. A local television station, and the Barry County Sheriff’s office received the…

BUSYNESS In his book, Satisfy your Soul, Bruce Demarest writes, “For many of us, the problem stems from the fact that we have forfeited God in the busyness of life’s activities-even church work. A recent study of two dozen conservative Christians who left the church found that while most were actively…

In his book, Satisfy your Soul, Bruce Demarest writes, “We schedule ourselves to the eyebrows and leave little time for reflection on matters of spiritual significance. The U.S. military, which lives euphemisms, calls this ‘task saturation.’” --Satisfy your Soul, 125. Illustration by Jim L. Wilson Psalm…