In life, we may come across someone who’ll make a deep impact on the way we perceive things in life. This was such an encounter.
For some time I have had a person provide me with a rose boutonniere to pin on the lapel of my suit every Sunday. Because I always got a flower on Sunday morning, I really did not think much of it. It was a nice gesture that I appreciated, but it became routine. One Sunday, however, what I considered ordinary became very special. As I was leaving the Sunday service a young man approached me. He walked right up to me and said, “Sir, what are you going to do with your flower?” At first I did not know what he was talking about, but then I understood. The boy said, “I would like it if you are just going to throw it away.” At this point I smiled and gladly told him that he could have my flower, casually asking him what he was going to do with it.
The little boy, who was probably less than 10 years old, looked up at me and said, “Sir, I’m going to give it to my granny. My mother and father got divorced last year. I was living with my mother, but when she married again, she wanted me to live with my father. I lived with him for a while, but he said I could not stay, so he sent me to live with my grandmother. She is so good to me. She cooks for me and takes care of me. She has been so good to me that I want to give that pretty flower to her for loving me.”
When the little boy finished, I could hardly speak. My eyes filled with tears and I knew I had been touched in the depths of my soul. I reached up and unpinned my flower. With the flower in my hand, I looked at the boy and said, “Son, that is the nicest thing I have ever heard, but you can’t have this flower because it’s not enough. If you’ll look in front of the pulpit, you’ll see a big bouquet of flowers. Different families buy them for the church each week. Please take those flowers to your granny because she deserves the very best.”
If I hadn’t been touched enough already, he made one last statement and I will always cherish it. He said, “What a wonderful day! I asked for one flower but got a beautiful bouquet.”
Tired of bad news? Share this and subscribe for more using the buttons below.
Victoria Bradley was eager to become pregnant and bring a beautiful little blessing into this world. So imagine her joy and happiness when she discovered she was expecting!
But just 24 weeks into her pregnancy, Victoria knew that her pregnancy journey would be highly unconventional. It wasn’t until her visit to the hospital that she learned her pregnancy could possibly be devastating if her daughter was born too early.
YouTube
It was an emotional pregnancy, one that shook Victoria to her core. She was nervous and anxious not knowing what might happen to her precious baby.
Victoria soon gave birth to her tiny girl. The doctors said she would likely not live.
YouTube
Mom named her sweet little blessing Francesca. She had no idea that her tiny two-pound baby was about to become a miracle.
Francesca’s arrival was so early that just two days before birth, she could have been aborted. Though her drastically early birth was a shock to Victoria and the doctors, Mom held on to hope.
YouTube
Watching her, Francesca’s tiny hands and feet made the nurses marvel. According to Victoria, she said that just looking at the delicate little body, she couldn’t believe it was her daughter.
Mom held on tight to her little girl as she watched her fight through multiple surgeries and medical procedures. She cradled her skin-to-skin, which is recommended for preemies to help with bonding and their health.
YouTube
The sheer amount of physical struggles that occurred during the first months of Francesca’s life makes it hard to believe she could one day thrive. But after months of illnesses and recovery, wait until you see her now.
Francesca is a fighter and she doesn’t even know it yet. But since day one, she has been an inspiration that the odds can be defied.
YouTube
The video below shows Francesca’s unbelievable recovery that will lighten your heart!
You may have heard the sleepover stories where the first kid to fall asleep is written on with markers by everyone else, or the sleepy guest whose hand is placed in a glass of ice water. Kids at sleepovers are often on a quest to tease each other and engage in crazy antics.
But unfortunately, some of these antics are anything but a laughing matter. The latest “prank” sweeping the internet is extremely dangerous. There are many “challenges” out there that may have started out as something fun to do, but actually pose a danger to kids’ lives.
YouTube
The latest challenge is one that parents need to be aware of. Not only is it terribly risky, but it has been getting a lot of news coverage lately for its serious and lasting consequences. It can cause very bad scarring and sometimes even permanent damage.
It’s called the hot water challenge and prompts one person to take a container of boiling hot water and throw it on an unsuspecting person. Another version has a person drinking it.
It takes mere seconds for the boiling hot water to cause third degree burns when it hits 140 degrees Fahrenheit. There unfortunately are YouTube videos surfacing that show kids exactly how to carry out this challenge.
Sadly, eight-year-old Ki’ari Pope passed away in March after being dared to drink boiling water through a straw. She ended up hospitalized with a tracheotomy, deaf and with chronic respiratory problems.
YouTube
Another 11-year-old was hospitalized in August after she was asleep when her friends threw hot water on her. An Arkansas teen sustained first- and second-degree burns on his neck after his friends showered him with boiling hot water while he slept.
The 15-year-old and six boys were at a friend’s house for a sleepover with the boys who were still awake tried the hot water challenge on him. He woke up screaming and crying when he felt the overwhelming burning sensation on his neck. He told THV11:
“I felt this really bad burning on my neck … I laid in bed for two hours and finally got up. I went to the bathroom and realized that this had happened then they told me they had poured the hot water on me…”YouTube
The teen went home and his mom rushed him to the hospital. Reportedly, the teens didn’t realize just how hot the water was.
Since the incident, the teen said the others are no longer his friends. His mom is begging other parents to speak with their children about the hazards of online challenges like the one that harmed her son.
Watch the video below to learn more about this story.
What is it? the answer is below.
Yes, I remember this… Coal bucket!! My grandma’s home was heated by coal. I remember the coal truck delivering the big pile of coal in her basement. The coal was kept outside in a wooden bin. Remember?
Pass this on and let’s see if your friends and family remember.
Please SHARE if you remember!
You ever meet one of those people who thinks they are always right? Maybe a successful job title and fancy possessions got their head a little.
But what many fail to realize is the that more that someone thinks they know about life, the less they actually do.
So what do you do when one of these pompous types come poking around, trying to cause a fuss? Better have a good come-back in place.
Inspire 21 posted a joke about a quick-witted cowboy.
Read the joke below.
A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in California when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.
The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, “If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?”
Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, “Sure, Why not?”
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.
The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg , Germany.
Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech,miniaturized HP LaserJet printer, turns to the cowboy and says, “You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves.”
“That’s right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves,” says Bud.
He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then Bud says to the young man, “Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?”
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, “Okay, why not?”
“You’re a Congressman for the U..S. Government”, says Bud.
“Wow! That’s correct,” says the yuppie, “but how did you guess that?”
“No guessing required.” answered the cowboy. “You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don’t know a thing about how working people make a living -“ or about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep…
Now give me back my dog.
Too funny!
He messed with the wrong cowboy!
There’s nothing worse than when someone comes arrogantly sniffing around your business trying to outsmart you. But then, there’s nothing better when you can turn it around so the joke’s on them.
Just because you’ve got fancy gadgets, doesn’t mean you’ve got it all figured out.
Did that one make you smile? Share this joke using the buttons below.
A 71-year-old man is having a drink in a Chicago bar. Suddenly a gorgeous 19-year-old girl enters and sits down a few seats away.
The girl is so attractive that he just can’t take his eyes off her. After a short while the girl notices him staring, and approaches him.
Before the man has time to apologize, the girl looks him deep in the eyes and says to him in a sultry tone:
“ll do anything you’d like. Anything you can imagine in your wildest dreams, it doesn’t matter how extreme or unusual it is, I’m game. I want 100 dollars, and there’s another condition.”
Completely stunned by the sudden turn of events, the man asks her what her condition is.
“You have to tell me what you want me to do in just three words.”
The man takes a moment to consider the offer from the beautiful woman. He then whips out his wallet and puts 10 ten-dollar bills in her outstretched hand.
He then looks her square in the eye, and says slowly and clearly:
“Paint my house.”
Laughed? Shared this and subscribe below for more.
Funny, I had no idea what this was, but I asked my wife and got it right away. Did you know? This was a Hercules vacuum cleaner. The design is wonderful! look at the crocodile skin, who would believe this material could be used for a vacuum cleaner?
SHARE if you knew it was a vacuum cleaner and if you love to remember the good old days..
In many situations, it can be about being in the right place at the right time – but it’s important to know what to do as well. Dorian Beshara was only 6-years-old when he spotted a troubling sight in the neighbor’s yard.
It all started on an ordinary day at his grandmother’s house in Salem, New Hampshire. Dorian looked out one of her large windows and quickly noticed Dorothy Beal by her birdbath. Dorothy and Dorian had been buddies since he was born, but something seemed strange about her this afternoon…
YouTube
The young boy knew his grandma’s 84-year-old neighbor well, so was hoping to be able to say hello. Usually, she treated him with a piece of candy or a big hug – so he always made a point to say hi when he came to visit. But this time, Dorian got a strange feeling.
When he spotted Dorothy outside, something seemed off about her demeanor. She appeared to be hurt and was motioning to little Dorian. Immediately he made the decision to get help.
He later told WCVB 5:
“I was looking to see if Dot Beal was in the front yard so I could say hi. I knew she broke something, so I called my dad and uncle and told them to go over.”
The pair rushed over to help the elderly woman and called 911 for an ambulance.
YouTube
As it turns out, Dorothy had actually broken her back that day while bending over in her yard. She was in pain and needed medical attention – so not only was it a miracle that Dorian was there, but it made all the difference in the world that he knew the importance of seeking help from an adult.
Dorothy told WCBV that little Dorian was her only hope.
“I bent over and heard my back crack and it hurt real bad, so I motioned for Dorian to come.”YouTube
He became a hero that day to Dorothy, who will forever be grateful. His parents and the firefighters who responded to the emergency call were very proud of him. Dorian’s father said that, while his son is a young boy, he can do more than people think. The same goes for all children!
“Little kids can do so much more than they get credit for. I’m the proudest father ever.”
Since that fateful afternoon, Dorian and Dorothy are as close as ever. In fact, Dorothy says they get to see even more of each other following her accident.
“We are buddies. He watches out for me. He knocks on the door and comes to visit, and then he goes on his way.”
Dorothy knows that with Dorian by her side, she’ll always be protected! What an impressive little boy.
YouTube
Watch the video below to hear more about this amazing story – and to see how Dorian was rewarded for his quick actions. He’s proof heroes come in all sizes!
Yes, I remember this… Coal bucket!! My grandma’s home was heated by coal. I remember the coal truck delivering the big pile of coal in her basement. The coal was kept outside in a wooden bin. Remember?
Pass this on and let’s see if your friends and family remember.
Please SHARE if you remember!
SHARE if you knew it was a vacuum cleaner and if you love to remember the good old days..
