journey into inspiration
**Marie submitted her story as part of our Overcoming Adversity Contest.** by Marie Preston, Monroe, Georgia Confronting the horrific death of her 12-year-old brother, she is finding healing and joy. May 5, 1971 … spring quarter at the University of Georgia on a Wednesday … about 7 p.m. to be exact. As a 20-year-old sophomore,… Continue reading finding healing and joy
By Sharen McArthur, editor Breaking the silence was something he could not do when he was a child. He could not tell anyone – not his parents, his brothers, his sister. He suffered in silence. In 2013 he decided it was time to tell his story of the sexual abuse that he had endured as… Continue reading Breaking the silence
The dangerous beast. That’s what the boy called the young man. In his imagination, he went into the jungle and stood up to the dangerous beast. And he always won. Born in El Salvador, Marco Flores was a toddler when his father abandoned his family. When he was three, his mother left him in the… Continue reading the dangerous beast
When most people think of a Christmas miracle, they think of angels and a baby born in a manger. Each December, one grateful mother thinks of the miracle sixteen years ago that changed the life of her infant son. Three months earlier, Cindy Hval’s son had been born with a congenital diaphragmatic hernia. A CDH… Continue reading Christmas miracle
Car collisions with motorcycles happen all the time.That doesn’t, however, make things easier for those involved in them. How would you handle the aftermath of a car collision in which a motorcyclist died? One 12-year-old boy from Suffolk County, England, began helping others after this happened to him. He began his own animal hospital for… Continue reading Helping Creatures Great and Small
Have you ever looked back on opportunities and realized that you missed out on something that could have been? Because they left their old life in a small suburb outside of Buffalo, New York, to begin a new one in Ireland, Debra Kelly and her husband can say that has not happened to them. And… Continue reading Finding Their Home
Anna Bozman Thompson loves her children. In an unusual turn of events, she discovered that one of her children, Lake, has a deep love for her and the rest of his family. In fact, his love never ends. Why is this unusual? Six months earlier, Lake died of leukemia. In October, Anna Bozman married her… Continue reading love never ends
They call it the Red Devil. It is red in color and highly toxic. This is Wendy Ann Mitchell’s story of enduring the Red Devil, a grueling treatment for a rare and aggressive type of cancer called Metaplastic Carcinoma; only one percent of women are diagnosed with this type of cancer. Her cancer is also… Continue reading Enduring the Red Devil
Is there a connection between psychological events and recurring health problems? Can you be healed through journal writing? The answer to both questions is yes. Jenny Patton suffered from Crohn’s Disease. Her weight dropped to 90 pounds because she was unable to digest food normally. She found little satisfaction in her job and snapped at… Continue reading Healed Through Journal Writing
Love letters. We love to get them. They make us feel special. Many times we tuck them away in a special place to savor them again, enjoying the way they make us feel loved and appreciated. One woman makes her living writing love letters. They are not romantic, passionate letters written for couples. She writes… Continue reading Love Letters
In prison, he found redemption in the very things that he scorned as a teenager – books and learning. When Sean Bearden was in elementary school and middle school, his mathematical ability astounded everyone. He could multiply three digits in his head when he was in fourth grade. In middle school, he could answer math… Continue reading Finding Redemption in Learning
He wasn’t like the other kids. He had a learning disability. He was from another country. Perhaps those are the reasons he was bullied. He didn’t know why. He just wanted the bullying to stop. Five fifth grade boys decided to do something about the problem. They weren’t seeking notoriety. They were being… Continue reading Fifth Graders Stood Up to Bully