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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,…

A wallet found inside the walls of cottage undergoing renovation in Georgia was returned to the family of the owner. Mary Kay Andrews, an author who owns the house now, said crews found the wallet inside a wall, and it appeared the wallet had been there for decades. Documents inside the billfold identified…

Social distancing to prevent the spread of coronavirus has taken a toll on patients in hospitals and health care facilities because those people are isolated and cannot connect directly with their families. John Lynch experienced separation when his father, who was at a memory care unit passed away.…

WalletHub conducted a survey to see how Americans are coping with the Social Distancing mandates imposed on them by the government. They discovered that “34 percent of Americans are most looking forward to seeing family once this is over, more than the amount that are most excited to see friends or go…

The late Jim Fixx was one of the first advocates for running as a form of exercise and lifestyle. Recently discovered journals written by his father reveals something about the name, Fixx. Calvin was born Fix, only one x. He added the second x because, he told his children, a person’s name should be…

12-year-old Zechariah Cartledge was inspired by first responders who were injured in the line of duty. He felt he needed to do something to help those who risked their lives for his. He and his family started an organization called Running 4 Heroes to raise money to those injured or killed in the line…

A Virginia sheriff’s department said a family who turned in two large mail bags filled with cash they found in the middle of the road deserved praise. The Schantz family said they were driving and ran over one of the bags. They thought it was full of trash and noticed another bag in a nearby ditch. They…

Stephen Baskerville is a college professor at Patrick Henry College. In an interview in World Magazine he was asked, “Why do many Christians talk more about the effects of homosexuality than the effects of single-parent homes?” His answer is one we need to remember. “The most destructive trend in our…

In 2017, child welfare officials removed about 90,000 children and teens from their families because of a parent who had a substance abuse problem. Welfare officials estimate that about 6 million children younger than age 11 have parents who suffer from drug addiction. The Week, November 8, 2019 P. 16…

A friendship that brought together a family from Newfoundland and the Canary Island began with a message in a bottle and a tragic accident. Patrick Dennis originally found the bottle on the shore of Tenerife Island off the coast of Africa in 2002. He made an attempt to contact the 5-year-old girl from…

Sisters Susan and Kim Churchwell were worried when they discovered that their 8-year-old emu had escaped by unlatching a gate. They asked neighbors to watch for the big flightless bird. The next day a neighbor reported seeing a large bird running through the sprinkler in their yard, so the family rushed…

A Texas family said a fire that burned their front yard was started with their 12 year-year-old’s Christmas gift. Nissa-Lynn Parson said her son Cayden received a magnifying glass and after opening gifts, the boy and his brothers decided to use the gift to burn holes in a newspaper in the driveway. The…

North and South Korea agreed to allow some families to meet with family members who were separated at the end of the Korean War in 1953. Eighty-nine South Koreans traveled into the North for the reunion. 92-year-old Lee Keum-seom embraced her North Korean son, 71-year-old Ri Sand Chol. He showed his…

When Tene Tucker returned from her vacation there was a pile of mail waiting for her. Most of it was the usual collection of bills and junk mail, but one letter caught her attention. The letter was addressed to her home, but it was marked “Return to Sender” and postmarked in 1967. Instead, Tucker found…

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…

In an article entitled, “What I would have done differently: Billy Graham’s regrets, in his own words,” Collin Hansen reports that Graham said, “I did not spend enough time with my family when they were growing up. You cannot recapture those years.” —Jim L. Wilson Christianity Today, April 2018, 95 Psalm…

A man who lost his wife and two children in Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is dealing with his grief by trying to find out what happened to the aircraft. Ghislain Wattrelos and other relatives of the people aboard Flight 370 visited Madagascar to ask residents of the coast to keep looking for debris from…

Jim McElwain, the former coach of the Florida Gators football team accepted a low offer for his home in Gainesville because he thought it would help a family in need. McElwain left his position with Florida and took a job with the Michigan Wolverines. He had not listed his house for sale, when the low…

Mila Kunis is a Jewish actor that has two children with Ashton Kutcher. She is determined that they will not grow up to be Hollywood brats. The two children, Wyatt 3, and baby Dimitri will not receive any Christmas presents this year. Last year Wyatt, only 2 at the time, received so much stuff that there…

A British family said they’ve used the same string of Christmas lights every year for 48 years and none of the bulbs have ever burned out. Ross Shaddick said his 68-year-old-mother Vina bought the lights when she was a teenager in 1969. She used them for years and then gave them to her son for him to…

After Leslie Ray Charping, a 75-year-old Galveston, Texas resident died of cancer, his online obituary read, Leslie Ray lived “29 years longer than expected and much longer than he deserved. His hobbies were being abusive to his family, expediting trips to heaven for the beloved family pets, and fishing.”…

Brad Wilcox, a sociology professor at the University of Virginia is also the director of the National Marriage Project. In an interview in World Magazine he states that “Men who work diligently, attend church with their spouse regularly, are emotionally engaged in their marriages, and don’t abuse drugs…

A study conducted by a Paris-based organization found that American high school students are generally satisfied with their lives, but their peers in other countries are happier. 15-year-olds who took part in the study ranked their lives an average of 7.4 on a scale of 0 to 10. According to the study,…

Orlando was an 11-year-old Arizona boy who had spent years in a Mexican orphanage before winding up in foster care in Phoenix, AZ. When he joined Jodi Kacz’s reading intervention class the teacher took a shine to Orlando. Kacz had a heart problem that kept her from having her own children but when she…

A new study at the University of Toronto suggests that family bonds are far more important to adult wellbeing than friendships. Researchers surveyed some 3000 people between 57 and 85, asking about their closest relationships, health, and well-being. They found that those who felt “extremely close” to…