Pain

By Ashutosh Sharma On September 11, 1977, I was born in Delhi, the capital of India. There was a wave of greetings in my house, because after five years of an elder sister, a boy was born. In those days, birth of a boy was given great importance in India. …

Let me tell you about my wife Bonnie Beckett and her cancer experiences. Before I get to that, bear in mind that Bonnie has also struggled with back pain, and in 2007, she needed a spinal fusion. It has been wearing off and bothering her as of late. In 2012, …

In these strange times of self-quarantining, like many others are during this world-wide novel coronavirus pandemic, we must bite our lips and endure… Day 1 – I can do this!! Got enough food and wine to last a month!  Day 2 – Opening my 8th bottle of wine. I fear …

True Story – An article from the Miami Herald, June 1998 A man was working on his motorcycle on his patio while his wife worked in the kitchen. He was  gunning the engine when the bike somehow lurched forward with the man still holding on. The bike crashed through the …

Death leaves a heartbreak no one can heal;Love leaves a memory no one can steal. Taken from a centuries old Irish tombstone ~~~~~~~ He only takes the best God saw he was getting tired,And a cure was not to be,So he put his arms around him,And whispered “Come with me”, …

The other day, someone at a store in our town read that a methamphetamine lab had been found in an old farmhouse in the adjoining county and he asked me a rhetorical question, ”Why didn’t we have a drug problem when you and I were growing up?” I replied: “I …

In three short months, just like He did with the plagues of Egypt, God has taken away everything we worship today. God said, “You want to worship athletes, I will shut down the stadiums. You want to worship musicians and singers, I will shut down the Civic Centers. You want …

Mellen-Thomas Benedict is an artist who survived a near-death experience in 1982. He was dead for over an hour and a half. During that time, he rose up out of his body and went into the light. Curious about the universe, he was taken far into the remote depths of existence, and even beyond, into the energetic void of nothingness behind the Big Bang. Eminent near-death experience researcher Dr. Kenneth Ring has said, "His story is one of the most remarkable I have encountered in my extensive research on near-death experiences."

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A Profoundly Inspiring Near-Death Experience Story
ÔÇ¿-- A True Story by Mellen-Thomas Benedict

I was a surgeon in the United States Army during the Civil War. After the battle of Gettysburg, there were hundreds of wounded soldiers in my hospital. Many were wounded so severely that a leg or an arm, or sometimes both, needed to be amputated.

One of these was a boy who had been in the service for only 3 months. Since he was too young to be a soldier, he had enlisted as a drummer. When my assistants came to give him chloroform before the amputation, he turned his head and refused it. When they told him that it was the doctor's orders, he said, "Send the doctor to me."

From Sports Illustrated, By Rick Reilly

I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay for their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots. But compared with Dick Hoyt, I suck.

Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in marathons. Eight times he's not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars--all in the same day. Dick's also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his back mountain climbing and once hauled him across the U.S. on a bike. Makes taking your son bowling look a little lame, right?

And what has Rick done for his father? Not much--except save his life.