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.
Look Out World, 12-year-old ‘Progidy’Graduates from High School and Heads to College for Double Major
12-year-old Suborno Bari has graduated from high school, completing just grades 10 and 12 when all was said and done, skipping 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, and 11th grades in the process. He is the youngest-ever scholar to graduate from Malverne High School in Malverne, New...
88-year-old ‘Proud’ Foster Mom Retires After Raising Over 40 Children
Special recognition has been paid to a senior foster mom from Maryland: senior because she’s 88 years old, and senior because she’s one of the most experienced long-term foster moms in the American foster home system. Since opening her home in Montgomery County in the...
The Vatican Goes Green: Pope Francis Announces New Suburban Solar Plant to Power Vatican City
There’s no country anywhere on Earth that’s entirely powered by renewable energy every day, but that’s soon to change. In a letter released on June 21 entitled “Brother Sun” Pope Francis announced his intention to transition Vatican City onto 100% renewable energy...
Kindness of Strangers Buoys a Family Caring for Their Terminally Ill 6-year-old Girl
A saga in Australia’s news media has come to a head in the best possible way, as a struggling family and their terminally ill 6-year-old daughter are being moved into special housing ’round the clock care. ABC News Down Under originally broke the story on June 23rd...
Man With Locked-in Syndrome Completes 50k Word Book – Using Just His Eyes
An Englishman living with rare locked-in syndrome has completed a 50,000 word autobiography, using just his eyes. Howard Wicks suffered a serious stroke as a teenager in Devon, leaving every muscle in his body paralyzed, except for his eyes. The book chronicles the...
28-Year-old Man is Overwhelmed With Emotion After Hearing for the First Time–Watch
A Los Angeles man was overwhelmed with emotion after hearing voices clearly for the first time, thanks to a cochlear implant. Aric Hoffmann has lived with hearing impairment since he was a boy, after contracting meningitis when he was just six months old. Up until...
Lotus Grown from 200-year-old Seed in Full Bloom at Kyoto’s Byōdō-in Temple – (LOOK)
At a famous Buddhist temple in Japan, pots of lotus flowers augment the already breathtaking scenery of the temple—but they’re more than what they seem. The lotus is a foundational part of Buddhist iconography, but the plants sitting in front of the UNESCO World...
Kindergarten Student Brings Audience to Tears Remembering Late Mom in Graduation Speech
There wasn’t a dry eye in the room when young Jaxon Carter delivered a speech as he graduated from Kindergarten, dedicating his hard work, good grades, and spelling bee victory to his deceased mother. The 6-year-old lost his “beautiful mommy” Taryn Marie Gainey in an...
Woman Discovers Thrift Store Vase She Bought for $4 is Made by Ancient Mayans and Volunteers to Give it Back
Anything could have happened to the vase as it sat on a shelf in Anne Lee Dozier’s Washington D.C. home. A cat, dog, or any one of her three boys could have elbowed it onto the floor while roughhousing, and instead of ending up at Mexico’s National Museum of...
