Six years ago, Mike Berry walked with his daughter to school and it changed his life—and the lives of thousands of children in western Colorado.
As he left the school, a little girl ran across the playground to him, weeping. She told him she was cold and hungry, and had slept in the car the night before.
“God stabbed me in the heart,” Berry recalls. “I knew I had to do something to help that girl and others like her.”
Eight-year-old violinist Brianna Kahane's appreciation for the healing effects of music is so deeply ingrained, that when she heard the news that a music school in Haiti was destroyed by the January earthquake she began taking action to get a new one built.
This particular school occupies a special place in Brianna's heart, because it was run by one of her favorite musicians, the blind Haitian violinist and earthquake survivor Romel Joseph, CBS news reports.
An eight-year-old running a marathon? Impossible, you say. But what if those 26.2 miles were broken up into short increments, run over several months? It’s called a kids’ marathon, and it’s catching on all over the United States, where childhood obesity rates have tripled in the past 30 years.
!–paging_filter–pa href=http://CNN.com target=_blankCNN.com/a reports that 2-year-old Dax Locke has been a target=_self href=http://www.guideposts.com/health-wellness/living-with/cancer?lid=BFTliving with cancer/a for a majority of his short life, and that leukemia may take him before the holidays./p
pHis parents decided to brighten his spirits by putting up Christmas lights outside of their home, as their son loves glowing objects. Locke also opens a present each day under a Christmas tree that’s been up for the past few weeks./p
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Accompanied by my four-year-old son, Eric, I was on my way to the store to buy a pack of cigarettes.
I knew I shouldn’t be doing this. I was going through a rough time financially and could barely make ends meet, especially for bad habits such as cigarette smoking.
Still, I’d been a smoker for 13 years and could not stop.
As I drove into the store’s parking lot, on impulse I turned to my son and blurted out, "Oh, Eric, do something to make me quit smoking!"
Author, speaker and mentor Ronda Del Boccio presents the Shrink With Me Blog. Ronda Del Boccio is the author of I’ll Push You steer, plus numerous articles and stories.
!–paging_filter–pFor years now, whenever Christmas pageants are talked about in a certain little town in the Midwest, someone is sure to mention the name of Wallace Purling. /p
pWally’s performance in one annual production of the Nativity play has slipped into the realm of legend. But the old-timers who were in the audience that night never tire of recalling exactly what happened./p
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Author, speaker and mentor Ronda Del Boccio presents the Shrink With Me Blog. Ronda Del Boccio is the author of I’ll Push You steer, plus numerous articles and stories.
"Mom," my four-year-old daughter, Alex, said on that gray and unpromising January afternoon, "I want to build a lemonade stand."
Alex and I were on the stem cell transplant ward of the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, Connecticut. As I stood looking out the window at the frozen landscape, I was trying to imagine how all of those bare hopeless trees would look again covered with green.
It was just like any other hectic evening. I was on the air, broadcasting my radio show, taking requests, chatting with listeners, playing dedications and scrolling through e-mails—when you're on air 35 hours a week and you've got eight kids, you've got to multitask, like it or not.
I remember when we achieved the American dream. It was in 1972 and the group that my husband sang with finally had their first hit record. All the hard work and sacrifice had paid off. We felt like we had gotten our reward.
Though life became a series of shopping, traveling and parties, we also gave to charities and helped friends in need. I felt that God had blessed us and there wasn't a problem we couldn't solve.
!–paging_filter–pMy name is Nicholas Rider. I’m 14 and last year I published my first book. How’s that? you ask. Well, it started with my grandfather./p
pGrandpa was a veteran of World War II, and maybe because I loved building model airplanes, I always used to ask him about what he’d done in the war. He was pretty modest about it. quot;Not a whole lot,quot; he said. /p
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