As parents, there’s nothing we wouldn’t do to make our children happy and comfortable. So when Ben Sowards, a husband and father from Utah, got a call from his 6-year-old daughter’s school that there had been a bathroom accident, he knew that he had to pick her up right away.
Ben also knew that he had to make his daughter Valerie feel better after the embarrassment of wetting herself. That’s when a brilliant idea popped into his head…
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Before jumping in the car and heading off to Valerie’s school, Ben splashed a little water around the crotch of his pants. In an interview with Huffington Post, Ben explained that the key to making his little girl feel better was in making her laugh!
“Honestly, I knew she was mortified, but I thought if I could make her laugh everything would be fine.”
This would surely do the trick!
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As soon as Ben walked into the principal’s office, he asked to borrow Valerie’s backpack. He quietly whispered to his daughter that he needed to hide something. At first, Valerie didn’t understand why her dad needed to hide anything!
Then she looked down and saw his pants.
Ben told Huffington Post that the moment Valerie saw his pants, everything was okay. She felt comfortable standing up and walking out of the school with confidence.
“She was totally exasperated. But, once she saw my pants, I got that look from her where I knew everything was OK. All dads know what look I’m talking about. And we just strolled out of the school like nothing was happening.”
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All Ben had to do as a father was drive down to the school and pick up his daughter. Wetting his pants with water was the extra step he took to make sure his she wasn’t embarrassed by something most children experience.
We need more fathers like Ben in the world!
While some people get to work from the comfort of their home, there are also those whose job demands use of physical strength or being outside. Postal workers are one of those people who don’t work from an office but are required to be out and deliver people’s mail and packages no matter the weather conditions.
During the winter they have to deal with freezing temperatures, and during summer time they try to brave the heat and stay hydrated while on the job.
The residents from a village in Oklahoma are aware that the postal workers sometimes struggle with the high temperatures, so they decided to do something nice for them and ease their job. Namely, many families have placed coolers full of bottle with fresh water. Some of them even wrote messages for the delivery men and women to see and treat themselves with some refreshment.
Along with the bottles of water, some even provided the workers with sports drinks.
Isn’t this idea a brilliant one? If you love it maybe you should do it to for the dedicated individuals who make sure your mail is always delivered just on time.
Take a look at the KOCO 5 News Report video below for the whole story.
One professor tried convincing one of his students how his faith in God was just an illusion as God didn’t exist. But the student’s answer left him speechless. His wise words make us all think deeply as well.
Read it below.
Professor : You are a Christian, aren’t you, son ?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor: So, you believe in GOD ?
Student : Absolutely, sir.
Professor : Is GOD good ?
Student : Sure.
Professor: Is GOD all powerful ?
Student : Yes.
Professor: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn’t. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?
(Student was silent.)
Professor: You can’t answer, can you ? Let’s start again, young fella. Is GOD good?
Student : Yes.
Professor: Is satan good ?
Student : No.
Professor: Where does satan come from ?
Student : From … GOD …
Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student : Yes.
Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct?
Student : Yes.
Professor: So who created evil ?
(Student did not answer.)
Professor: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor: So, who created them ?
(Student had no answer.)
Professor: Science says you have 5 Senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son, have you ever seen GOD?
Student : No, sir.
Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?
Student : No, sir.
Professor: Have you ever felt your GOD, tasted your GOD, smelt your GOD? Have you ever had any sensory perception of GOD for that matter?
Student : No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.
Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student : Yes.
Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student : Nothing. I only have my faith.
Professor: Yes, faith. And that is the problem Science has.
Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?
Professor: Yes.
Student : And is there such a thing as cold?
Professor: Yes.
Student : No, sir. There isn’t.
(The lecture theater became very quiet with this turn of events.)
Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There was pin-drop silence in the lecture theater.)
Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?
Student : You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light. But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, well you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?
Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man ?
Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.
Professor: Flawed ? Can you explain how?
Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good GOD and a bad GOD. You are viewing the concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing.
Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Professor: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.
Student : Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The Professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going.)
Student : Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor. Are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?
(The class was in uproar.)
Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?
(The class broke out into laughter. )
Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable.)
Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on faith, son.
Student : That is it sir … Exactly ! The link between man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that keeps things alive and moving.
If your faith is as stronger please share this conversation with your friends and remind them of the strength God gives us every day.
It is believed this student was Einstein. Such incredible scientists with such brilliant thoughts on religion.
Most of us can remember the exact moment when the horrific events of September 11, 2001 took place. The tragic events that occurred on that day play on a movie reel in our minds.
Most of us were only glued to our TV’s for the footage on the news, but there were some that experienced that fateful day right in the eye of the storm. Some carry scars, others lost loved ones. A day will never go by that the memories won’t haunt them.
Kylee Tinney and her husband Cling took a trip to visit the 9/11 Memorial in New York City they had the chance to talk with one of these individuals. His experience will stay with her forever.
This is the story she shared of the day she met Tom, her words will resinate with you from this day and remain with you forever.
“Our driver dropped us off near the 9/11 Memorial entrance. It was POURING down rain and the line was long so I ran to the nearest cover, which was by the museum exit door, while Clint went to buy tickets. Standing there was a police officer and a museum facilities dispatch worker. I eavesdropped on their casual conversation for a few minutes and finally mustered up the courage to ask them where they were on 9/11.‘The 47th floor of the North Tower’, the museum worker said. Thomas Canavan, one of twenty survivors of the collapse. Wow. He proceeded to tell me his harrowing story of being buried alive, crawling through 46 horizontal and roughly 30 vertical feet of rubble, making it out alive, severely injured (but not realizing it due to adrenaline) and sadly having lost the friends he started with
It’s hard to imagine that much rubble or that someone could even begin to climb out of it.
We talked for 20 minutes as if no one else were around. I asked questions, and he gladly answered. One of the many things from that conversation that stuck out was that he said it’s so deceiving on TV when all you see is one cloud of dust and a small hole from the plane. The reality you don’t realize at home is that it was desks, file cabinets, chairs, staircases, elevators, and people falling down on him. The little holes in the Towers on TV from the planes were really 6 stories tall. The magnitude of this tragedy was so much more than most of us can imagine from our television screens. Something that’s hard for us to comprehend.
Unless you were there you wouldn’t have a clue. Those holes were 6 stories tall. WOW!
Clint came back with museum tickets for 11:30am. It was 10:45am so we were going to have to wait a bit. The rain had subsided by now. Tom without hesitation said, ‘You guys come with me.’ He escorted us past the (still) long line, past the police officers, and told the security guards, ‘these are my two friends, let them in.’ And without question we were quickly escorted inside, as if the President had just given orders. I could tell Tom was highly respected by everyone around. Before he left us, he told us to look for him in the museum; we would find his picture and the watch he wore that fateful day.Sure enough, we found Tom’s watch displayed in a shadow box
From the impact of the collapse, his wristwatch stopped; a moment stuck in time. The eeriness and irony. Tom told me that was the last day he ever wore a watch. It’s easy to think of September 11 as just a terrible tragedy in our country’s history. We so often forget that these were/are REAL PEOPLE, many who still feel the effects every day. Even something as simple as not being able to wear a watch, because it brings back haunting flashbacks.We spent two hours in the museum, but could’ve spent days. As we exited the museum we saw Tom not far away. We hollered his name and ended up chatting a bit longer. Before leaving he said in his Northern accent, ‘See us Yankees aren’t so bad after all. You never know what you’ll learn about people until you sit and talk to them.’ This made me reflect a little…while I was talking to Tom, probably ten or more visitors came up to him and asked where is the bathroom, where is the museum entrance, nearest restaurant, and the list goes on. But I got the feeling that not many people took the time to ask him about 9/11. The reason we were all here. No one knew everything he had been through. I could only be thankful it was raining that day and I picked that particular awning to run under, or else I might have missed this happenstance and humbling conversation of fate. I can only hope he was equally as touched to share his story with us as we were to hear it.When we told him goodbye, I let him know that we would bring his story with us back to The South, which is why I felt compelled to share with you today. I may never see my FRIEND Tom again, which makes me sad, but every September 11th I will fondly remember him and all of the other men and women who died and lived in the face of pure evil. As always, I am Proud to be an American.”
I am still moved to tears every time I hear a 9/11 story, I can’t imagine. But the stories remind me of a time when America banned together and that makes me proud to be an American.
Does this story make you proud to be an American? Then share it!
Thieves have found a new way of stealing cars and we are asking you to help us spread the word about their method and warn everyone to be more cautious.
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News outlets have been writing of a “new” method thieves came up with when it comes to stealing people’s cars and we believe everyone should read this and see the video in order not to be fooled and left without their vehicle.
As it turns out, all the thieves need is a plastic bottle and patience. If you wonder how can a plastic bottle help in stealing someone’s car, wait until you see the video.
Allegedly, the first person whose car was stolen this way was a guy from Limpopo, a South African province bordering Botswana, Zimbabwe. After people learned of this trick, some Mexican guys recorded a video that shows how it’s done. It has been seen around 6 million times already but the police believes it not only warns others to keep a close eye on their vehicles, but it also helps thieves to learn how to master the method, too. So it looks the video does more harm than help, police says.
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The first thing criminals do is target the car they want to steal. Afterwards, they place an empty plastic bottle on top of the car’s passenger side tire wedged in between the rubber and the wheel well. This does the trick because the car owners don’t take notice of it.
Once they enter the car and the engine starts running, a strange noise comes from the tires. That’s the bottle cracking under the tire, but of course the drivers have no idea what is really going on, so they get off the car to inspect the problem. While they do it, they are very likely to leave the car open, with the keys inside, too.
Once this happens, you already assume what the next step of the thieves is.
The video is in Spanish, but it’s pretty detailed and you don’t even need to speak the language in order to understand what the person is trying to tell you.
Seeing the vehicle open and running, the criminals simply jump inside it and start driving, leaving the owners in disbelief. So basically, your car can get stolen right in front of your own eyes, and you can do nothing about it.
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If you believe that this only happens in Africa and Mexico, you may be wrong. It only takes for a criminal to see the video or hear of this trick in order to try it.
So, whenever you have your car parked, check it thoroughly before you enter it. Or simply never leave it open with the keys inside, even if you are near by.
If sharing this warning prevents even one single person from being fooled, it’s worth it. Please make sure you spread the word and warn your family and friends.
This father of two and police officer maybe only just started in the police force but he looked like a real professional after he found an abandoned toddler roaming the streets of Georgia recently.The police received a call about a small child wandering the streets alone, sent out to investigate was officer Hurst and his colleges went out to the Cuyler-Brownsville neighborhood. A picture of him holding the child and caring for her was posted online and the response was really amazing!Hurst and his colleagues took the little boy over to the emergency room to get checked over straight away, the little boy was quite understandably upset and feeling very stressed by everything that was happening. Officer Hurst was so sad about what was happening he couldn’t just leave him to be upset!Officer Hurst said:
“The boy, obviously, being so small, became very upset. He was crying. He was sobbing. I asked the hospital staff if I can hold him to comfort him and soothe him a little bit to try to calm him down, to continue getting medical care, and they said that was fine. So I picked him up.”
“Minutes later, I was standing and he was asleep on my chest, and with all my body armor and my gun belt, became very heavy holding this small child. So that’s when I decided to sit down on the bed and make it easier for him and me.”
The officer’s fatherly instincts took over and he really calmed down the toddler so well, the little boy fell straight off to sleep on his chest.That picture of him holding the child went completely viral, he just had the view that he was simply doing his job, he has been completely flooded with well-wishers and people wonderful reaction to the photo and his kind nature.The toddler is now completely safe and healthy, he is with the Georgia Department of Family & Children’s Services, now he can hopefully get placed in a safe and happy home really soon.
Officer Hurst not thinking that there wasn’t anything special in what he did, said:“It’s what we do, every single day; not just me, but the 600 officers that are on this department. This job is so much more than just chasing the bad guys. It is about serving the citizens of the communities you work in and doing what they need you to do.”
The police officers in the community work really hard to look after their communities, they work hard and really care, they make us feel very proud!
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We all know and love the movie Grease. If you are one of the many that do then you know the name Olivia Newton-John from her iconic role opposite of John Travolta. Others may know her from her singing career.
These days, people are hearing her name due to a battle she was facing with cancer. Unfortunately she is familiar with the disease and the treatments that come with it. This is not the first time she has had to fight cancer.
She had gone into remission and believed that the worst was behind her. Recently she was told that she is not clear yet. She has been experiencing terrible back pain which was initially chalked up to sciatica but she would soon realize that her problems were actually much worse. The cancer actually metastasized and has now made its way into her sacrum.
Olivia was floored when she found out she was going to have to beat cancer again. She truly believed her fight had ended and she was able to continue living life cancer free. After hearing this terrible news Olivia maintains a positive outlook on life no matter what. This is how she approaches many obstacles and it will serve her well during this battle.
She doesn’t allow herself to be swayed by opinions and is open to alternative treatment methods. Olivia Newton-John believes she is going to be just fine. What a mind set to have in the midst of adversity.
Medicinal marijuana has been part of her treatment process and she is trying her best to remove any of the stigma that surrounds the treatment. She isn’t just getting high all day. She uses the drug as a means to reduce her pain. The drug helps with the inflammation caused by the tumor.
This woman is still remaining active on stage and performing for her fans. Even during her most vulnerable time she is an inspiration to us all.
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Oh, those amazing canines. Their unique character and antics never fail to make our days. Despite being very friendly and loyal, many have hidden talents. All they need in order to gain confidence and share them with the world are supportive humans around them. Or, sometimes, what they need is just a rubber chicken. Like in the case with this lovely pooch.
He stumbled across the toy while casually walking around the house, and the moment he stepped on it, he realized the sound it was making was an interesting one. What he did next? He started singing along the noise the toy was making and it’s pretty hilarious to watch and listen to.
Take a look at this ‘musician’ in the making in the video below.
The residents from a village in Oklahoma are aware that the postal workers sometimes struggle with the high temperatures, so they decided to do something nice for them and ease their job. Namely, many families have placed coolers full of bottle with fresh water. Some of them even wrote messages for the delivery men and women to see and treat themselves with some refreshment.
Along with the bottles of water, some even provided the workers with sports drinks.
Isn’t this idea a brilliant one? If you love it maybe you should do it to for the dedicated individuals who make sure your mail is always delivered just on time.
Take a look at the KOCO 5 News Report video below for the whole story.
Officer Hurst said:
The police officers in the community work really hard to look after their communities, they work hard and really care, they make us feel very proud!
If you agree too then SHARE this story with your friends and family.
Olivia was floored when she found out she was going to have to beat cancer again. She truly believed her fight had ended and she was able to continue living life cancer free. After hearing this terrible news Olivia maintains a positive outlook on life no matter what. This is how she approaches many obstacles and it will serve her well during this battle.
She doesn’t allow herself to be swayed by opinions and is open to alternative treatment methods. Olivia Newton-John believes she is going to be just fine. What a mind set to have in the midst of adversity.
Medicinal marijuana has been part of her treatment process and she is trying her best to remove any of the stigma that surrounds the treatment. She isn’t just getting high all day. She uses the drug as a means to reduce her pain. The drug helps with the inflammation caused by the tumor.
This woman is still remaining active on stage and performing for her fans. Even during her most vulnerable time she is an inspiration to us all.
