Inspiring News
From the Good News Network
Sometimes the news can show the darker side of local and world events. But there is so much more! We found the Good News Network online and find their writing and focus to align well with our virtues and beliefs. We have included some excerpts below borrowed from their site. The link above with direct you to their site for further information and to subscribe directly.
Lucky Find in Perth Returns Beloved War Medals to New Zealand Family
A New Zealand military chaplain recently recovered a fallen airman’s war medals and reunited them with the man’s next of kin. It cost the chaplain a few hundred dollars to perform this good deed, one which has seen them restored and presented to the aviator’s...
Four Best Friends All Move to Houses On the Same Street: ‘These Girls are my Sisters
Four women in their 40s who’ve been best friends for 17 years have all moved to the same street—and they now feel like they’ve built their own community. Sarabeth Stine was delighted when her pal Kelly Holbin found a house just around the corner 10 years ago in...
Burger King Workers Show up at Beloved Regular’s Funeral with Chair Engraved in His Honor
While some might consider Burger King royalty only among big corporate fast food chains, the staff members at a local Minnesota branch just put some very human, very sensitive toppings on the reputation of their restaurant. When a 91-year-old regular at the...
Given $100 to Swap Airline Seats, Dad Tells His Kids ‘Being Nice to Others’ Can Lead to Something Good
A senior citizen who suffers from claustrophobia offered a man in the aisle seat on a recent Delta Airlines flight $100 to switch with her. Though he repeatedly declined, and offered his seat happily, the woman would not let it lie, eventually telling him to give some...
Lottery Winner Pledges Part of $328 Million Prize to Nonprofits, Winning Ticket Seller Does the Same
After an Oregon man won the state’s third-highest Powerball lottery prize ever, he has decided to travel, to give to various nonprofits “close to his heart,” and make some investments. The $328 million prize manifested itself on a ticket bought from a Fred Meyer...
This Mexican Priest Performed as a Wrestler to Pay for Orphanage that Nurtured Thousands
If the headline to this story sounds oddly like the plot of the movie Nacho Libre starring Jack Black, well, that’s becaues they are one and the same. Fray Tormenta was a masked wrestler that delighted crowds in Mexico’s lucho libre circuit for years, but few would...
With 10x the Canopy of a Sequoia This World-Record Tree Can Be Mistaken for an Entire Forest
North America is graced with the presence of the oldest single tree, the oldest tree colony, the tallest tree, and the largest tree by wood volume. But it’s India where one must go to stand beneath the world’s largest tree canopy. At two and a half times the size of...
Welcoming Mental Health Patients Back Into the World Is a Big Part of the Cure – Clubhouse Movement Gets a Boost
(Research and writing contributed by Robby Berman) A huge donation from MacKenzie Scott is uplifting a unique organization in New York, so they can transform the lives of even more people who’ve struggling through mental health problems. The former wife of Amazon.com...
Heart Transplant Girl Misses Father-Daughter Dance Until Hospital Came to the Rescue (Watch)
A ten-year-old girl waiting for a heart transplant missed out on her school’s father-daughter dance—so the staff recreated the magic in a hospital. Ava Cooper was born in 2014 with several heart defects and had her first open-heart surgery when she was six days old....
