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.
Texas Woman Sets Record for Donating Almost 700 Gallons of Breastmilk
An extraordinary woman from Texas has claimed a Guinness World Record thanks to her generous heart, and a little help from some other organs. Alyse Ogletree has set the world record for the most amount of breastmilk donated by a single person—2,645.58 liters—or just...
Man Labeled ‘brain dead’ May Be First to Recover from Extreme Locked-in Syndrome
A man labeled “brain dead” has become the first ever to recover from an extreme form of locked-in syndrome, which paralyzed him so completely he couldn’t even blink—something patients of this disease have in the past used to communicate—and even write books. In 2017,...
4-Year-old Girl Told She’d ‘Never Walk’ takes Her First Steps–With Sisters Screaming as They Shoot Video
A four-year-old girl, who doctors said would never walk, has defied expectations to take her first steps. When she was a baby, Scottie Mae Blair was diagnosed with Angelman syndrome—a rare genetic condition that causes severe physical and learning disabilities. Her...
Dad Who Wanted to be a Pilot Builds Incredible Real-Life Simulator in His Home–Now his Daughter’s Obsessed (Watch)
An Englishman who was told he “wasn’t clever enough” to become a pilot has built an incredible $25,000 flight simulator in his home using spare parts—and now he and his daughter can ‘fly’ every day. Craig Cullingworth spent two years building his accurate model of a...
Azores Protects Whales and Corals with Marine Preserve as Big as Virginia and Georgia Combined
A massive new marine protected area (MPA) has been established in the eastern Atlantic off the coast of the Azores. Covering 287,000 square kilometers of ocean makes it the largest MPA network in the North Atlantic—the size of Virginia and Georgia combined. 15% of...
Man Is Overwhelmed with Emotion Trying Color Blind Glasses for First Time–‘My God. This is Amazing’ (WATCH)
This is the moment a man became overwhelmed with emotion after trying on colorblind glasses for the first time. Kris Sipe, 47, who has been colorblind his whole life, bought the glasses on a whim without knowing whether they would work. A video made by Kris shows him...
Sunken Class Ring Returned to Canadian Who Lost it in 1977 off Barbados Coast
When a Canadian professor lost his class ring while splashing around in Barbados with his son, finding a needle in a haystack must have seemed like a breeze by comparison. Yet miraculously, after 47 years of tumbling about in the surf, sand, and shells, the man...
95-year-old Pickleball Player Dominates the Courts: ‘I Keep moving’
From Kansas comes the story of a timeless American: a great-great-grandmother who sings, dances, and plays pickleball twice a week. Lois White puts the elder in ‘elderly,’ and has lived a life of play, sport, love, and family to be celebrated from one corner of the...
Kids Leave Halloween Candy on Doorstep After Noticing Sign About Son’s Hospitalization, Leaving Family ‘Overwhelmed’
Amy Schmitt and her son love to dress up for Halloween. The house is always festooned with decorations, and locals know it’s a must-visit stop along any trick-or-treating route. However, after her son was hospitalized two days before, Schmitt had no time to join in...
