Kindness

Mary Ann Bird was born with multiple birth defects. She suffered not only from her physical impairments but also with the emotional trauma of “being different” from others.  I grew up knowing I was different, and I hated it. I was born with a cleft palate, and when I started …

Author Unknown  It was an unusually cold day for the month of May. Spring had arrived and everything was alive with color. But a cold front from the North had brought winter’s chill back to Indiana. I sat, with two friends, in the picture window of a quaint restaurant just …

Date: Week before Christmas, 2004 Place: Central Texas  All I really wanted for Christmas was to do something to support our troops. I prayed on this goal daily until I thought I had received an answer, about how to help the troops. I started searching and found a great list of troops requesting …

A man and his wife were awakened at 3:00 am by a loud pounding on the door.  The man gets up and goes to the door where a drunken stranger, standing in the pouring rain, is asking for a push.  “Not a chance,” says the husband, “it is 3:00 in …

“Kindness is the language the blind can see and the deaf can hear.”  – Mark Twain By Tom Satre A once in the history of mankind kind of thing. The Best Day Of Fishing Ever! Some fishing  stories are a little hard to believe but this guy has pictures to prove his …

by Jude Stringfellow An amazing story – what can be achieved with perseverance, patience, love and faith! Faith Stringfellow is an amazing little dog, with an even more amazing story. Faith suffered from a birth defect, she became a member of our family when she was just a three-week old puppy. My …

A True Story by Mary Bartels Bray Our house was directly across the street from the clinic entrance of John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. We lived downstairs and rented the upstairs rooms to out-patients at the clinic. One summer evening as I was fixing supper, there was a knock at …

— Author Unknown Are you almost disgusted with life, little man?I’ll tell you a wonderful trickthat will bring you contentment, if anything canDo something for somebody, quick!  Are you awfully tired with play, little girl?Wearied, discouraged, and sick –I’ll tell you the loveliest game in the world,Do something for somebody, …

— Author Unknown One day a man was walking along the seashore. He noticed that during the night many seashells and starfish had washed up on the shore. Thoroughly enjoying the morning sun and cool sea air, the man strolled for miles along the sand. Far off in the distance, …

He was driving home one evening, on a two-lane country road. Work, in this small mid-western community, was almost as slow as his beat-up Pontiac. But he never quit looking. Ever since the Levis factory closed, he’d been unemployed, and with winter raging on, the chill had finally hit home. …