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Nobody, I suppose, teaches the young mother how to manage her first child, and yet somehow or other it is done, because she loves it. It is wonderful to me how a widow with quite a swarm of children somehow provides for them. I cannot tell how, but the love she bears them leads her to make exertions…

Turn to Acts 12, where you have the record of Peter lying asleep in the prison, watched by soldiers. And yet at the dead of night, an angel of the Lord came into the prison, smote Peter on the side, bade him bind on his sandals and gird himself, and follow him. Peter went through all the doors of the…

I remember one who spoke on the missionary question one day saying, “The great question is not, ‘Will not the heathen be saved if we do not send them the gospel?’ but ‘are we saved ourselves if we do not send them the gospel?’ ” And so it is with regard to Christian gifts. It is not so much a question…

A 66-year old woman in Houston discovered an old friend without a place to live, so she invited the homeless friend, Thomas Smith, to stay at her house with her and her 2 young granddaughters. During the night he was woken by a loud bang. He rushed to his friend’s bedroom and found her covered in debris.…

In Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love, Sue Johnson writes, “To reconnect, lovers have to be able to de-escalate the conflict and actively create a basic emotional safety.” —Jim L. Wilson Hold Me Tight, 122 Ephesians 4:26 (HCSB) Be angry and do not sin. Don’t let the sun go down…

Mr Densley, an 87-year-old man in Lincoln, California, passed out while mowing his lawn. When the neighbors saw it, they immediately dialed 911. No one could have predicted what would happen next. Not only did the Emergency Medical Technicians help him medically, but after he was stabilized, one of them,…

Michigan firefighter Brandon Mulvaney was one of several firefighters who received a late-night call about an animal trapped in a storm drain. When they arrived, they found a small kitten trapped below ground. Mulvaney climbed down a maintenance hole to reach the pipe with the trapped cat. He called…

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…

When Matthew Van De Riet found himself at the scene of an auto accident on a remote stretch of Canadian highway, he went above and beyond the call to help. When he a distressed looking dog beside the road, Van De Riet stopped to investigate and discovered the wrecked car and with two people inside and…

The management of the Atlanta Ikea store claimed they were trying to honor their black employees when they created a special Juneteenth menu of “fried chicken, watermelon, mac and cheese and collard greens.” “It caused a lot of people to be upset,” one employee said, “People actually wanted to quit.…

During the height of pandemic, Zohaib Begg undertook a mission to gather personal protective equipment for frontline workers. Then, the self-proclaimed “Chief Kindness Officer” decided he needed to do more to help his community so he contacted area business asking for help putting together boxes containing…

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…

Jamaican hurdler Hansel Parchment may not have won a gold medal in Tokyo, if a stranger had not intervened. Parchment took the wrong bus on the day of his event. He was listening to music, when he looked up and realized the bus was going the wrong way and he had no idea where he was. In a social media…

Restaurant owner Robert Magiet has found a unique way to help other small food vendors on the coldest Chicago days. Magiet stops at the vendor’s carts and buys their entire inventory for the day which allows the vendors to make their daily wages and also go home and stay warm. On average, he buys 15…

Despite the bad news in the world around them, two North Dakota families choose to focus on good and spread kindness. 11-year-old Eva Brooke and her family collected $280 and gave it to their server when they visited one of their favorite local restaurants. Brooke said she got the idea from another friend,…

2020 was a difficult year for most people, but some good has emerged from the pandemic. A survey conducted by OnePoll of 2005 Americans found that since the lockdown that began in March of 2020, “seventy-two percent said they found themselves caring about the health and well-being of others significantly…

Sandra Ledford was surprised when she put down a bible at the store and a DVD fell out. Ledford said she thought it might be something included with the book, until she noticed writing on it and saw that it was a personal DVD. She started to set it down and leave it, but something told her not too. Ledford…

Kaylee Goemans found herself in a pickle. Her 6-week-old son, Dominic, was in a lot of pain from intestinal problems. Kaylee packed him up in the car and rushed him to the emergency room. Once there she realized that she had let her car parked in a metered spot and hadn’t put in enough change. Because…

Federal and local authorities responded to the need when excessive amounts of lead were discovered in the drinking water in Flint Michigan. They were a joined by Baptists from the area. Most residents were only able to one case of water per day, but many families need more due to cooking and drinking.…

The tree selected to stand in New York’s Rockefeller Center for the 2020 Christmas season came with an unexpected guest. An employee of the company that secured and transported the tree spotted a little owl in the tree. He put it in a box and called his wife, who checked with a local wildlife center.…

In his book, Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It, Brian Dumaine recounts a trip Bezos took with his grandparents when he was 10 years old. He wrote, “His grandmother Mattie was a chain-smoker, and at that time the networks were running…

Elizabeth and Jake Landuyt felt their wedding was like a dream come true. The ceremony was perfect and things were going according to plan, until the cottage next to their reception venue on Mackinac Island in Michigan caught fire. They had to evacuate and the only thing they could think of was walk…

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/…