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Christopher Yaun (The book Out of a Far Country by Christopher and Angela Yuan.) “God’s faithfulness is proved not by the elimination of hardships but by carrying us through them.” — Christopher Yuan When “good student and obedient son” Christopher Yuan turned his back on his family and...

Jack Canfield is the creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul Series. He’s also one of the best motivational speakers, professional coach, and an incredibly inspiring author who published The Success Principles. Jack and his co-author Mark Victor Hansen pitched the original Chicken Soup for...

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Trust A little girl and her father were crossing a bridge. The father was fearful so he asked his little daughter, ‘Sweetheart, please hold my hand so that you don’t fall into the river.’ The little girl said, ‘No, Dad. You hold my hand.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ Asked the puzzled father...

What Goes Around, Comes Around His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to eke out a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified...

31 Jars of Kindness Bobbie Gollehon is a returning student at Bakersfield College. Having enrolled in a summer speech class, she was required to give a 10-minute speech as her final exam. Bobbie chose "Random Acts of Kindness" as her topic. As chance would have it, one of Bobbie’s classmates...

How do you want to be remembered? More than a decade ago, a man was reading his morning newspaper. To his surprise and horror, he read his name in the obituary column. The news papers had mistakenly reported the death of the wrong person for sure. He was shocked to read news headline about his...

There once was a man who fell into a pit. A pessimist walked by and said: You will never get out of that pit. An optimist walked by and said: You will get out of that pit. A judgmental person yelled down as he walked away: If you were watching where you were going, you would not have fallen...

The Wranglers & Stranglers Many years ago there were a group of brilliant young men at the University of Wisconsin. The group of men seemed to have an amazing creative literary talent and were extraordinary in their ability to put their literary skills to its best use. These promising young men...

The Eagle Story Someone once told me a story about a wounded eagle who was rescued by a kindly farmer. He found the bird in one of his fields, and so took him home, tended to his wounds, and then placed him outside in the barnyard to recover. Strangely enough, the young eaglet soon adapted to...

Martha Mason Martha Mason graduated valedictorian of her high school and earned two college degrees at the top of the class—all while living her life in an iron lung. Paralyzed by polio at age 11 in 1948 and confined 23 hours a day in an immobile, 800-pound horizontal tube, the voracious...

Never Give Up. “Never give up.” It’s probably one of the most cliché phrases you’ll hear as you’re building your career. But there’s a reason these sayings are clichés—you never know when success really does lie around the next corner. We know believing that is easier said than done, so we...

"That's Right, God Doesn't Exist." When they eventually touched on the subject of God, Mike said: 'I don't believe that God exists.' "Why do you say that?" asked Bill. "Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist. Tell me Bill, if God exists, would there be...

I was in my 30's, and had ended up losing everything, lost my family due to tragic circumstance, ended up with two types of cancer, and was homeless ( I had basically just given up on life). I had decided that cancer was my death sentence and had relegated myself to living in the woods ( Bad...

No hope. As a group of frogs was traveling through the woods, two of them fell into a deep pit. When the other frogs crowded around the pit and saw how deep it was, they told the two frogs that there was no hope left for them. However, the two frogs decided to ignore what the others were...

The House with the Golden Windows A little girl lived in a small, very simple, poor house on a hill. She loved to play in the small garden. As she grew up, she was able to see over the garden fence and across the valley to a wonderful house high on the hill. This house had golden windows, so...

A Child’s Prayer Dear God, are You still awake? Have You got a minute or two? You’re pretty good at understanding, And I really need to talk to You. You see, Mommy came to tuck me in, Like she does every night. I was trying to play a trick on her, Since she can’t see without the light. I was...

Teddy Stoddard As she stood in front of her 5th grade class on the very first day of school, she told the children an untruth. Like most teachers, she looked at her students and said that she loved them all the same. However, that was impossible, because there in the front row, slumped in his...

“Great Is Thy Faithfulness” The Story Behind the Hymn Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning, great is Your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, ‘Therefore I hope in Him!” Lamentations 3:22-24 You don’t...