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Every summer hikers of all ages climb the 14,000 ft mountains in Colorado. Beverly Wedeistedt was 55 when she summited one of those fourteeners, Gray’s Peak. At the top she felt a pop in her knee and tumbled to the ground. A doctor who was present on the trail diagnosed a torn ACL and fashioned a makeshift…

Jack McConnell recently died at the age of 93. He was a medical researcher who participated in some amazing discoveries including a test for detecting tuberculosis and developing the polio vaccine. He was also instrumental in the invention of the first MRI system. Perhaps his biggest contribution of…

Journalist Anthony Breznican tells a heart grabbing story of the day he met Fred Rogers, the creator and star of the children’s television show, Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. It was during a difficult time in his life. “The future seemed hopeless. I was struggling, lonely, dealing with a lot of broken pieces…

Tequila Isaacson is an Idaho woman who was traveling on a Washington State highway. She was at a rest stop when a Pickup truck in the parking lot next to a coffee shop caught on fire. While the boy’s parents worked to get him out and another man called 911, Isaacson began searching for a fire extinguisher.…

Jim Ford was sent to repossess a 1998 Buick belonging to Patty Kipping, 70, and her 82-year-old husband, Stanford. Upon arriving at their home, he discovered the Kippings were mired in debt from medical expenses and had only $30 to last until their next Social Security check. Jim set up an online fundraiser…

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police report the story of a Good Samaritan who turned in more than $1,500 in cash. The homeless man reported that he found the cash near Langford, British Columbia. This Good Samaritan was in his 60’s and homeless. Even so, instead of pocketing the cash he wanted to get it…

A passerby in Gulfport, Mississippi, found a man who was lying on the street severely injured and unconscious. His condition showed signs of assault. The man who found him took the time to alert police so that the man could receive help for his severe injuries, who rushed the injured man, Jerry Turner…

The family of 40-year-old Jason Kroft says they would like to find and thank the man who saved Jason’s life but they cannot locate the person. Kroft was sightseeing in New York, when he suffered a serious heart attack on a street corner and collapsed. Kroft’s wife called emergency operators, but noticed…

Recently, a remake of the Parable of the Good Samaritan occurred in China. After automobile hit a 2-year old child, the driver fled the scene of the accident. Pedestrians ignored the injured child lying with blood in the street. No one stopped to help. No one except Chen Xianmei, a poor woman, who was…

Jesus walked where the people could see him; even the needy ones. Luke tells of ten lepers who could see him and called to him while he was passing by. Jesus stopped and healed them. (See Luke 17) If the city of Santa Barbara, California has its way, it will become more difficult for the needy and the…

In a strange twist on a timeless parable told by Jesus, security cameras recently revealed that at least seven people walked by a homeless man laying face down on the street bleeding. Some turned their heads to look, others gawked, and one lifted the man’s body, and set it down before walking away. Emergency…

The Little Lame Boy */“A little lame boy was once hurrying to catch a train. In the press of the crowd he experienced real difficulty in manipulating his crutches, especially as he was carrying a basket full of fruit and candy. As the passengers rushed along, one hit the basket by mistake, knocking oranges,…

Tim “Tool Man” Taylor – Wilson Ricky and Lucy Ricardo – Fred and Ethel Mertz Daren & Samantha Stevens – Abner and Gladys Kravitz Jerry Seinfeld –Kosmo Kramer Fred and Wilma Flintstone - Barny and Betty Rubble Mr. Rogers - Any willing one Source:

• Tim “Tool Man” Taylor – Wilson • Ricky and Lucy Ricardo – Fred and Ethel Mertz • Daren & Samantha Stevens – Abner and Gladys Kravitz • Jerry Seinfeld –Kosmo Kramer • Fred and Wilma Flintstone - Barny and Betty Rubble • Mr. Rogers - Any willing one Scott Cody. (2007). Illustrations of Scott Cody. Source:…

Compassion should motivate us to more than just feeling sorrow for someone it should motivate us to action. Pity is a feeling, but true compassion demands an action. There is a funny story about Peter admitting people at the gates of heaven. Peter asks one man who appears, ‘Tell me one act of kindness…

Motorists drove around dead body on road Tue May 8, 2007 10:11am ET JERUSALEM (Reuters) - More than two dozen Israeli motorists maneuvered around the dead body of a road accident victim lying in the middle of a busy intersection, failing to stop to help in an incident captured by a traffic camera. In…

We’re exposed daily to so much human tragedy we’ve experienced what some have called compassion fatigue. Having felt sorry for so many flood victims, earthquake victims and war victims we simply cannot muster the sympathy we know we ought to have for fresh casualties. But even worse than compassion fatigue…

In 1975, a child named Raymond Dunn, Jr., was born in the state of New York. The Associated Press (AP) reported that at his birth, a skull fracture and oxygen deprivation caused severe retardation. As the child grew up, the family discovered that he had other impairments. His twisted body suffered up…

Motorists drove around dead body on road Tue May 8, 2007 10:11am ET JERUSALEM (Reuters) - More than two dozen Israeli motorists maneuvered around the dead body of a road accident victim lying in the middle of a busy intersection, failing to stop to help in an incident captured by a traffic camera. In…