What My Kids Taught Me This Past Christmas
When Claudia couldn’t afford to buy her kids Christmas presents, she was crestfallen. But how her kids responded to the news taught her a valuable lesson.
Family & Relationships / Featured / Real-Life Stories
by Claudia Vidal · Published January 7, 2018 · Last modified January 8, 2018
When Claudia couldn’t afford to buy her kids Christmas presents, she was crestfallen. But how her kids responded to the news taught her a valuable lesson.
by Heather Campbell · Published January 31, 2017 · Last modified May 22, 2017
A short and sweet story about how Heather’s decision to say “Yes” to an act of kindness was a gift to herself as well as to the strangers who helped her.
Healing / Real-Life Stories / Self-Discovery
by Karin Sieger · Published December 24, 2016 · Last modified February 22, 2017
Karin was taught to say thank you to be polite, but it took some deep healing and self-discovery before she could give thanks and feel it with all her heart.
Courage / Family & Relationships / Healing / Real-Life Stories
by Evelyn Mann · Published December 1, 2016 · Last modified February 28, 2017
Due to life-threatening dwarfism, doctors said Samuel wouldn’t survive birth. Now, he’s not only alive but teaching his parents valuable life lessons!
An unexpected chance to extend a random act of kindness taught David what Thanksgiving is really about.
Family & Relationships / Healing / Poems
by Jessica Mehta · Published October 25, 2016 · Last modified February 28, 2017
“Call this a love letter, call it
Our Story,
unlike anyone else’s, but with threads
and adornments from the Great
Ones—the star-crossed fables, the fairy tales”
by Cindy McKinley · Published September 24, 2016 · Last modified November 8, 2016
One night, Cindy and her husband saw a man eating dinner alone and anonymously paid for his bill. Months later, their act of kindness returned to them.
by Nihar Suthar · Published September 15, 2016 · Last modified October 14, 2016
While traveling in India, Nihar met a poor, hard-working young man with a dream. This is Nihar’s story of making that dream come true.
by Helen Holden · Published September 3, 2016 · Last modified October 15, 2016
When her mother fell ill, Helen found hope in a kind nurse named Bridget. This is Helen’s grateful tribute to all the nurses who change lives.
by Jennifer Mannion · Published August 26, 2016 · Last modified October 16, 2016
Jennifer was told she’d be in a wheelchair within a year and then continue to deteriorate. This is how she healed herself, physically and emotionally.