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In You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times, Max Lucado writes, “Forgiveness vacillates like this. It has fits and starts, good days and bad. Anger intermingled with love. Irregular mercy. We make progress only to make a wrong turn. Step forward and fall back. But this is okay.…

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…

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…

Michael Todd went to a new school where he was the target of taunts and laughter. He did not have new clothes and was feeling very left out. Two of the kids piling on were Garrett and Kristopher Graham, a pair of freshman football players. The Graham brothers began to realize what they were doing was…

Minnesota state trooper Brian Schwartz could have ticketed Dr. Janjua when he pulled her over. Instead, he gave her a warning and a lecture, telling her it was “irresponsible” for her to be speeding—she could have gotten into an accident and would not be available to help her patients. What he did next…

Axel Johnson’s excitement turned into fear quickly as he got on the big yellow bus for the first time to go to kindergarten. He began to cry. Isabel Lane, the bus driver, reached behind her and grabbed the little boy’s hand. Axel’s mother, Amy Johnson, snapped a photo of the bus driver’s kind gesture…

In his book, Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You, Andy Stanley writes, "If you’re a Christian, you aren’t expected to treat others the way you’ve been treated by others; you’ve been called to treat people the way you’ve been treated by your Father in heaven. You…

A new study that analyzed security camera footage found that: “91% of the time, bystanders watching the incidents [aggressive fights] intervened to, physically gesturing for an aggressor to calm down, physically blocking an aggressor or pulling an aggressor away, consoling the victim.” —Jim L. Wilson…

A life wracked with teenage angst and the horrors that await many in the trials of the modern American High School is the setting for the book, Thirteen Reasons Why, which has been made into a Netflix Series by the same name. Hannah Baker has done the unthinkable; she has ended her own life, rather than…

The Bible never tells us to forgive and forget, but imagine how easy it would be to forgive others if we could forget. A teen in North Carolina knows all about that. Since suffering a concussion during track practice in 2017, every night when she sleeps her mind resets and purges her memories of the…

Saturday Night Live (SNL) is known for commenting and lightening the mood around serious topics. Most of the time their humor is well received and lighthearted, however, in the fall of 2018, a cast member made fun of Congressman elect Dan Crenshaw. Congressman Crenshaw is a war hero and was a member…

Seth Marko owns a bookstore in San Diego. After a medical incident, doctors told him that he needed emergency open-heart surgery. He was not sure what would happen to his store, the Book Catapult. Scott Ehrig-Burgess is the manager of a rival bookstore nearby. Ehrig-Burgess offered to run the Catapult…

Hundreds of unsuspecting people across the country were surprised when messengers gave them two bouquets of flowers, asking them to keep one and give the other bouquet to someone else. The flower giveaway was a campaign sponsored by the Society of American Florists called “Petal It Forward.” A spokesperson…

A Minnesota tuck diver who triggered a crash that killed five people will serve only a few months in jail because of the forgiveness offered by surviving family members. Tony Weekly Jr. smashed his semi-truck into the back of minivan killing five members of the Pals family instantly. Weekly pleaded no…

While studies show that bonobos (a type of chimpanzee found in the Congo) prefer those who win, regardless of how they won, humans are not that way. In a study conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, researchers found that children between 21 months and 31 months like the…

A church in Southern California passed out Random Act of Kindness (RAK) cards and asked their members to perform random acts of kindness in the community and leave a RAK card with the name of the church. One church member tried this at a Starbucks drive through. Handing the RAK card to the Starbucks…

Wildfires, started by two teenagers, recently spread through Gatlinburg, Tennessee destroying everything in their path, and claimed fourteen casualties, including a mom and her two daughters. Imagine being the husband/father that received this news, knowing that the whole situation was avoidable and…

Speaking from the Columbus hospital where Logan, his son lay, Ryan Cole asked for prayers for his son, who is a16-year-old shooting victim. But that wasn’t his only prayer request. He also asked for prayers for the family of the accused shooter. —Jim L. Wilson & Ed Pincusoff Fox Newshttp:www.foxnews.com/us/2017/01/26/dad-student-shot-seeks-prayers-for-son-suspect-family.html…

Bruce Tanner walked nearly 800 miles to encourage others and prove that there are still good people in the world. It took Tanner three weeks to travel from Maine to Ohio, and when he finished his 21-day journey, a crowd of nearly 100 friends and family lined the highway leading into his hometown to welcome…

In the book, Forgiveness and Health: Scientific Evidence and Theories Relating Forgiveness to Better Health, the authors write, “Findings indicate that state forgiveness (i.e., forgiveness of a specific offense and offender) and trait forgivingness (i.e., a general disposition to forgive) are both inversely…

In his book, Leadership and Conflict, Speed B. Leas writes, “Invite the other (even a person who is attacking you) to join you in a common search to identify what the problems are, stay with the other in order to work through the differences, look for alternatives that you both can agree have merit and…

In his book, Replenish: Leading from a healthy Soul, Lance Witt writes, “Not only does technology generate a lot of internal white noise, it hinders our ability to focus on people. It seems to me many of us have developed a kind of social ADD. We can’t stay engaged in a conversation or an experience…