kindness

Inspired Stories 12/27/21, 16:11

A Louisiana man provides adaptive bicycles for children with special needs. Andrew McLindon has worked for years with the McLindon Family Foundation in Baton Rouge. He brings opportunities to children with disabilities to have fun. "It's just beautiful," he said. "I mean a lot of times the children, it's been kept a ...

Inspired Stories 12/26/21, 20:27

Michigan firefighters have rescued an 82-year-old woman from a house fire. The Chippewa County Sheriff's Office described the rescue as "a Christmas miracle," which occurred on Saturday morning, Dec. 25. The woman did not hear the smoke detector, according to the sheriff's office. Sheriffs and firefighters were called to a fire on Ridge ...

U.S. 12/25/21, 16:13

Several Christian groups and congregations around the U.S. work to offer a little Christmas joy to inmates and their children over the holidays. Angel Tree is a charity project run by Prison Fellowship that collects toys with the help of churches and volunteers. They often bring gifts to their children on ...

Australia & Oceania 12/21/21, 05:16

After miraculously surviving a jumping-castle tragedy in Tasmania, an Australian boy has delivered a message to supporters. After the accident on Thursday, Dec. 16, Beau Medcraft was left with six "best mates" dead, two shattered arms, and a fractured wrist. He's still fighting on. Medcraft was injured during a graduation ceremony at ...

Inspired Stories 12/16/21, 17:22

A California food store employee's kindness helped change a boy with Down syndrome for the better. On a Sunday morning six years ago, TJ Lawlor, a Redwood City Whole Foods employee, and Riley Dehne, a 13-year-old boy with special needs, met by chance, starting an inspiring friendship. The first thing customers notice ...

Inspired Stories 12/12/21, 21:23

Let's face it: It's not cheap to raise a child. It's not just food and diapers that new parents need to buy. There are many other things they need to buy as well, like a crib and clothes. When you think about it, it makes sense that many parents try ...

Inspired Stories 12/10/21, 20:30

An anxious mother wrote a heartwarming letter to a "macho looking" man after he teats her toddler with kindness on Westjet flight 1221 from Fort Lauderdale to Toronto at 9:30 p.m. The mother was anxious that the passenger next to them would be disappointed with her little child throughout the flight. ...

Inspired Stories 12/03/21, 18:54

A bus driver became a living angel to two children when she found them alone on a snowy morning. Nicole Chamberlain, a Wisconsin bus driver, described how she assisted a two-year-old girl and her six-year-old brother she saw roaming the streets when the weather was 18 degrees and snow was falling. When ...

Inspired Stories 12/01/21, 08:06

Anyone can become Santa Clause in their own ways. Alex DeJesus, a kind-hearted man in St. Petersburg, Florida, has made many wishes come true when deciding to donate bicycles to children who live in poverty occasionally. According to WFLA, DeJesus came up with the idea three years ago when he was queuing ...

Inspired Stories 11/25/21, 11:24

Daylan McLee tried to avoid all police officers at all costs. Every time he ran into them, he was afraid of getting into trouble and ending himself in jail. Daylan had been imprisoned for a year after being wrongly accused for pointing a gun at a police officer. He also had ...

Inspired Stories 11/17/21, 17:23

Now that the Christmas Season is around the corner, we start hearing stories full of kindness and generosity that renew our wish to help others and be nice. The lives of parents and 12 children have changed since they got help from secret Santa in 2020. Misty and Ben Ashley from ...

Inspired Stories 11/17/21, 16:05

In 2016, a teen from Phoenix received a text message from a woman asking to be his grandmother inviting him to Thanksgiving dinner. So far, they have spent six Thanksgiving dinners together. Jamal Hinton, 20, is delighted that his "grandmother" Wanda Dench of Arizona, unintentionally contacted him. The two strangers met for ...

Inspired Stories 11/17/21, 03:38

A police officer was surprised and grateful when an 8-year-old child willingly paid for his breakfast and attached a special note that read, "I want to be you when I grow up. Thank you for your service." Noah Cantin from Florida paid for police officer Benitez of the Lakeland Police Department's ...

Inspired Stories 11/15/21, 19:54

It's challenging to work as a waiter. The job is demanding, you have to work long hours, be fast, polite and deal with many tasks. Also, it is often underpaid, so tips become an important part of your salary. Because of this, a group of strangers met through a Facebook post ...

Inspired Stories 11/07/21, 15:49

Zach Holt of Maryland, who formerly worked at a shelter, goes above and beyond to reunite a missing puppy with its owner in Wichita, Kansas. Holt decided to help when his girlfriend told him about the dog Zimba. And he has made no demands in exchange for his journey. Zach took images ...

Inspired Stories 10/29/21, 22:26

In Oct. 2021, Kimberly Waterbury and her 95-year-old mother, Dottie Schneider, from Chandler, Indiana, traveled to Orange Beach, Ala., for a vacation. Schneider, who is wheelchair bound, was unable to stroll through the sand on her own. To make the mother’s vacation more enjoyable, a team of lifeguards planned to pick ...

Inspired Stories 10/24/21, 01:33

Most men are proud of their fathers, even admire them, and look up to them as role models. However, it's rare to catch them expressing their true feelings or saying any words of love to their fathers. Dean, a Phillipsburg police officer, is different. On his father's last day of work, ...

Inspired Stories 10/16/21, 04:08

Tennessee boys went viral after risking their lives on the highway at night to save a 3-year-old girl. Dalaurence Holland, 15, and Zech Krinjnic, 13, from Mount Juliet, received a shower of accolades after their brave and selfless actions went popular on the Internet. Mount Juliet officials even awarded them with ...

Inspired Stories 10/15/21, 22:23

A fifth-grade boy was hailed a hero after calling 911 on a reckless driver to save 30 students on their school bus. Troy Luna, a student at Bonita Landing Elementary School in California, received nothing but appreciation from California Highway Patrol officer Thomas Olsen and Newman-Crows Landing Superintendent Randy Fillpot. They were impressed by ...

Inspired Stories 10/15/21, 16:54

Five men going through a rehabilitation program were praised for saving an elderly couple from a burning car on a California roadway. “There was a time when like so many of us, I would not have, but because of programs like ECTLC, we are changing, we are not just being selfish ...