We really commend the senior people of this world who really don’t let their age define who they are. Far too commonplace are situations where the elderly are told what to do and what not to do… The real key to living a long life is to keep active, keep yourself as busy as you can, every day. That’s exactly what this 82-year-old Jesse Langunas was all about! He lives with his 63-year-old wife, called Joyce, everything was going really well until they found a hole in the shed roof. Like most of us, he got a quote from a builder to have the work done for him, but it just cost too much! Jesse being the active guy he is decided to fix it himself, how hard could it be right? Jesse went to the store and bought a safety harness, very sensible so far, he thought if he tumbled off the roof he would still be safe. There was only one little problem, he couldn’t figure out how to put it on! He could have watched a video online to know how to do it, but no, he went to his local fire station to ask them instead, genius, it makes perfect sense! He went up to a couple of firefighters in the station and they showed him how to put it on properly, they didn’t know what he was intending at this point though. In the fire station, Daryl Burns, sat in his office overheard the conversation between his firefighters and Jesse. Daryl said that:

“Sean was trying to put the harness on himself and came to find out Jesse was trying to get on the roof to work on his shed …[I thought] I don’t know if that’s the best idea.”

He went on to say:

“All of us had an opportunity with a little bit of time in our afternoon and it was like we can do something good with it”

The firefighters were not about to let him do the work himself and they were a little concerned for him, they went to his house and they did the work for him, how amazing, what amazing people! Jesse said:

“They said, you go and start on it, and when we get off, we’ll help you come and finish it”

Jesse’s wife was even more impressed by the firefighter’s action, she was so happy they did such a kind thing for them, she cooked up a homemade meal for them all to enjoy when they had finished working on the roof! The roof now at Jesse’s house is completely suited up, no leaks in sight, at all! Jesse is overjoyed at the whole thing that happened! He said finally, about it all, that the best thing was really that:

“I’m glad to say now I have four friends”

Thank you so much to the amazing firefighters, and Jesse you are an inspiration to us all!

Amusing a baby is really hard sometimes and knowing what to do can be a little bit of luck too sometimes. They will be amazed at what you do when you don’t think it’s anything special and other times you think you have done something amazing and there is just no reaction! This year, on the 8th December, In Singapore a maid tried to entertain a 7-month-old baby called Masha by shaking a thermal flask? She really hadn’t realized that the flask was not closed properly! The boiling water in the flash shot out as she shook it, all over the baby’s right arm, scalding her, she cried out in pain and was very upset, as you can imagine! Masha’s mother, Jinghan Naan, in a Facebook post, said:

“Blisters were already starting to form on her pink skin”

Thankfully the baby’s father, Aizat, was there and able to take action fast, he poured cold water over her arm and the burn as quickly as possible. The maid wanted to console Masha but was worried about touching her now. The Maid sincerely apologized to everyone there and Masha’a parents took her to the hospital, some of the people accepted her apology, but Jinghan was still very upset with her. She said:

“I never said a word to her but I was furious …Hateful and spiteful thoughts filled my mind. Somehow, it irked me that Aizat and his siblings were being so cheery and smiley in order to distract Masha’s attention away from the burns.”

On the journey to the hospital, Jingahn was very quiet… Aizat said:

“It was an accident boop”

He was trying desperately to soften the tension, but his wife didn’t respond at all, in fact when they arrived at the hospital, her irritation grew even more!

But Jinghan went on to say:

“It broke my heart to hear Masha’s cries as they dressed her wound …My rage grew; my baby was suffering unnecessarily because of the helper’s carelessness.”

When they got back to the car Masha was so incredibly tired she fell asleep on her papa’s shoulder, her eyes red and puffy from crying so much! The couple was talking and as Aizat began to speak Jinghan finished his sentence thinking that she knew what he was going to say… “Later when we go back . . .” he started. “Yeah. We’re going to send her (the maid) back. She’s fired…” Jinghan finished the sentence for him! That was not what Aizat was going to say though… He said again what he wanted to say:

“Later when we go back, ask if she is ok.”

Jinghan really could not believe her ears, she sat and listened as her husband explained more:

“The water probably spilled on her as well. We didn’t even bother to ask if she was ok.”

His wife really didn’t see it that way at all, she thought that if it were not for the maid it would have never happened in the first place. She said:

“But this is her fault!”

He said in return:

“Yeah, but she’s human too…”

Jinghan then thought a little about what he was saying and realized that it made sense, she had not shown any compassion for the maid at all in her anger. The maid had only been working there for one week and was still getting to know what to do and learning her role there, she had made a big mistake, but not completely unforgivable. Jinghan said:

“I fooled myself into thinking that how I acted when times were easy was a testament to my faith and character. I couldn’t be more wrong …This has served as a huge lesson for me. I hope that by sharing this, we can all practice more magnanimity, patience and compassion in the most trying of times.”

Jinghan cleared up many details in a recent update.

According to the post she made, Masha is making a great recovery, but she still can’t swim yet though. The maid is still diligently working for the family too! It really is great that everything has worked out ok after such a terrible mistake it could have been considerably worse, her father’s quick actions with the cold water no doubt really helped too! Good luck Masha we hope that you recover quickly and send you love and prayers to be happy and well!

Two police officers went to investigate an abandoned house over in Milwaukee, but they really weren’t sure what they would encounter when they got there. They found a two-year-old toddler in the house! They really tried to make her feel super safe and secure, after all, they are both dads too!  Officers Dan Resnick and Vin Paolo responded to the call where a pregnant woman, with her toddler, who was living in an empty and boarded up two-story house. The House was on 29th Street near West Locust Street in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On entry into the house they saw a pregnant woman, she looked young, squatting inside, she said that she had lost her job and she had nowhere else to go. The house was completely freezing cold, with no electricity and no heating at all, it was super cold! Pablo said:

“[There was a] Broken upstairs windows, draft through the house, clothes and garbage and beds amongst the house”

On entering the bedroom, Resnik saw a 2-year-old toddler under a pile of winter sheets on the bed. Resnik said:

“I just moved the sheets and that’s when I saw the two-year-old for the first time”

The little boy was wrapped in two or three jackets and was deep asleep in the cold room, the only food in the house was a lonesome bag of chips. Paolo got the boy and brought him inside his warm squad car, he called a colleague to bring some McDonald’s for the very hungry looking boy. Paolo remembered:

“Oh, he was really hungry. He scarfed it down …He warmed up to us fairly quickly, but he didn’t say very many words. He did say mama and that’s about it”

“It hurts my heart to see children like this. It’s unfortunate, but we see this quite often”

Paolo has five adopted Foster children himself and really feels compassion for children like this, in these unfortunate circumstances.

Paolo said:

“Coworkers often joke with me as if I’m going to take home every child that I see, and I really wish that I could”

The boy sat on his knee and ate up his chicken nuggets and fries, Resnick took a photo of them both. The lovely photo that the Officer snapped and the toddler has been around after being uploaded by a friend of Paolo’s, called Paulette Rutter Drankiewicz, on Facebook. The post has received well over 4,500 reactions and over 2,400 shares!

Jennifer Ralston said on Facebook:

“I see this officer at work sometimes daily, he does great work!” 

Paolo’s wife, Mel Williams, said:

“He did it because he’s a loving, kind, compassionate, great person with a huge heart. He did it because he’s a dad, and wants every child to feel loved, safe, and have a full belly”

“We don’t want recognition,” Paolo told the Journal Sentinel. “It’s just what we do because we’re dads, we’re people.”

The Milwaukee police have announced that Child Protective Services have custody of the boy and his mother is working closely with social services to find a permanent accommodation. All in all its great news for the toddler who will now live a much more enriched safer life and a great thank you to the police officers involved too!

Sometimes in life things feel like they are all against us, this woman felt like that, she had a really awful tile, she gave up her children to social services and sought professional help to try to improve the situation! After she had reunited with her children again the local community banded together and gave her a gift, it was $625 dollars of gift cards, what an amazing start for her and a wonderful gift from concerned and kind people around her. It didn’t stop there and there was another surprise waiting for her…

From South Carolina, Jessica McCutcheon was experiencing a really difficult year, recovering from domestic violence and drug abuse problems her children stayed with carers on behalf of social services while she could get better and recover. When she was fit and able to get her children back from the social services the community wanted Jessica to really have a fresh start in life and achieve the stability she desperately looked for.

The people that cared for one of her children, 2 years old Harper, had cooked up a plan and they couldn’t wait to do it! They knew that she was working two jobs just to pay all her bills and they wanted to make her life a little easier for her. Shannon said:

“We just felt she was part of our family and we just felt that she needed her kids to have a good Christmas and we wanted to be a part of that”

They had a great idea! Kate Sepko, Shannon’s neighbor works at the North Greenville University as a cheerleading coach, they got some of the students there to help too! The students were able to amazingly and very kindly make a donation of $625 for Jessica.

Kate said:

“Some of them were giving $5, $10, $20. It just impressed me so much, you know, $5, $10 is a big deal for these kids. That’s a meal or a couple meals”

It was all given to Jessica in gift cards in a lovely gift box. When she opened the box she just cried, she was so touched by what they had done for her! But there was even more to come…

In the emotional toll and tears of happiness for the gift, Jessica was given some car keys, she had been given a car! People had realized that she had to keep borrowing other peoples cars to get the kids to school and do jobs, so they decided it was the time that she had a car of her own!!

Jessica was so happy, she could hardly believe what was happening to her! she said:

“It still brings tears to my eyes to know those young people who are trying to start their life actually care enough about me and my children”

People realized that she was recovering from domestic violence and left her some lovely messages of support on Facebook! One Facebook user wrote:

“Personally I think this story is wonderful and good for her trying to get her life straight and do the right thing for her and her kids.”

Someone else Wrote too:

“God bless these people for helping someone that is obviously trying to do better!”

See the video below for yourself:

Nobody gets married with the intention of breaking up, but nevertheless, people do get married then decide to break up, usually because of the emotional turmoil of toil of some sort. They fight for the children and the assets that they own, or partially own… Dr. Scott Becker 30 years ago had a particularly difficult divorce… The Doctor, Scott had to experience his daughter torn from him and his life all because his wife decided to run away with her. He could then only wonder how his daughter was growing up without him in her life! Scott never gave up on his daughter even many decades later, he was always thinking about her and how he might be able to reunite with her, after some time his efforts really did pay off.   For quite a few years after his marriage had failed, Scott tried his best to find his daughter, in vain. He only wanted to have a normal father and daughter relationship and some conversations with her too! Spending many thousands of dollars on private investigators but none of them could help him find his daughter, called April. Many years down the line, 20 years to be exact, after looking for her nearly constantly, Scott decided to use the power of the internet to help him find her! He set up a website called aprilbecker.com he hoped that his daughter would somehow see it and get in touch with him! At last, the miracle happened, he could hardly believe it! It turns out that April was also desperately looking for him too! One afternoon she just googles for “Scott Robert Becker” and sure enough landed on the web page he had set up in hopes of finding her! April found on the website that there was a note for her, like a handwritten note, her dad had written the note for her, it was so she would contact him, and she could see that her dad was desperate to contact her. April says the letter hot her hard… She said:

“I must have cried for three hours straight”

She was overjoyed with the whole event of finding her father that she was forced to leave when she was only two months old! She couldn’t wait to talk to him and catch up on all the things they had missed! Scott was a little reluctant to email her back, it was so nerve-racking to finally find her, he knew just how he would test to see if it was really her! The test he went for was asking her:

“What’s your mother’s maiden name and are you green?”

April, being the real daughter, passed the test no problem at all! She said the correct maiden name and for her mother, and she said:

“Of course, I’m green. My birthday is St. Patrick’s Day”

She knew exactly what he was asking of her, Scott knew that he had found his baby at last! There are no words that Scott could find to express how he felt, all the emotions when he saw her again, like the huge hole in his life had been filled again, he was at peace with himself again. April said:

“Thirty years have passed. He missed everything …He missed high school. He missed junior high. He missed me being active in drama and theater. He missed my kids being born.”

Scott had even missed being a grandfather, but he was determined to catch up on lost time! Scott’s ex-wife had told his daughter little to nothing about him, what a great shame… April said:

“My mom is an excellent woman. She did a good job. But every child deserves to know their mother and their father”

She also said that she is a huge fan of children’s rights and advocates good parenting, with everything that she went through in her childhood she wants to help protect other children from having to endure the same as she did growing up!

When we get married we commonly say ‘until death do we part’ but for this amazing guy it goes beyond this for his wife that passed away, but he still truly loved… He continued to eat at the restaurant that they used to enjoy together. Now he takes her framed photo and has it on the table next to him as he eats, to feel close to her! This amazing guy, Clarence Purvis, 93, found love in his life, she was called Carolyn Todd, when she was, back in the day, just 16 years old, when they first met each other, he was 24 at that time! About a year later they married each other. This was to be the start of 63 years together, in that time their love just grew stronger and stronger and their lives grew closer, all the time filled with love and understanding As Clarence tells the story their time together was the stuff of fairy tales, it was a one in a million example of true love that fairy tale that everyone searched for, but very few actually find! Clarence said:

“Ain’t nobody loved one another more than me and my wife loved one another. I wanted what she wanted and she wanted what I wanted”

Dining at the same place for lunch for the last 13 years, Clarence and his wife went to the Smith’s Restaurant in Reidsville with religious dedication. Even when four years back Carolyn died he still didn’t leave her out, he took her photo to the restaurant and placed it on the table to remember her! He said:

“She was always with me when we were livin’. She’s with me now”

Lots of concerned people tried to convince Clarence that he is simply a little bit lonely and he would be so much better off if he moved forward and tried to move on. It’s simply the case that some people just don’t believe in the concept of true love as Clarence knows that it exists for his wife and him. He said:

“They said if I get me a girlfriend things will be better. I could ask her, could I get me a girlfriend? You know what she’d say? If you want too. That’s how we operated”

Around four times every day Clarence visits the grave of Carolyn a the Cemetery Glennville, he said it’s because he loved her so much and he misses her! He said:

“I imagine I come 125 times a month …I love her that much. And miss her that much. And think she would with me.”

Clarence’s behavior could seem a little over the top and worrying, and that Clarance can’t move on with his life. However, the other side of the story is that they had found true love between them. Clarence just is showing really that true love never dies! How amazing, if you think so to then SHARE with your friends and family, and watch below to see more!

One Christmas Cecil Rodgers was staying with family and very excited to be there, he received a disturbing call from someone who claimed to be his eldest grandson, it was only set to dampen his spirits…. The guy who called him said he had been in a car crash and really needed his help! Cecil said:

“A voice comes on and says, ‘Papaw, this is your oldest grandson. I’m in trouble…He said, ‘I hit a woman’s car and she was seven months pregnant. And they charged me with drunken driving and I’m in jail.”

Cecil then said that a lawyer “appeared” to come on the phone at this stage to talk to him and tell him what he needed to do next… He said:

“I’m going to try to get him out so he can drive home.”

He gave Cecil instructions to send them $2,300 by a direct store to store type of transfer, that would pay for his grandsons’ bail! The “lawyer” told Cecil to go the local Walmart and then transfer the money to the Walmart in Bel Air, in Maryland. He was really concerned for his grandson, Cecil drew out $2,300 from his bank and went to his Walmart Store as he had been told to do… The clerk that day in the store was Audrella Taylor, she would be dealing with the transaction that day, thankfully this was a good thing! Cecil told the clerk about what was happening to him and what he had to do, Audrella was experienced in the store and worked there for years, the alarm bells were ringing loudly in her thoughts when she heard his story! Audrella said:

“He said something about somebody was locked up in jail, he got a call and he needed to send $2,300 …I said I am going to refuse the sender. I’m not going to let you send that money. I think you are being scammed.”

She sensed that something wasn’t right and suggested he call his family first, just to check what was going on and to see if anyone had heard about the accident. Audrella was right, no one else had heard about the accident, his grandson was safe at college, the Walmart store manager, called Dominic Gross, was very happy with the staff member who raised the alarm and for her super fast thinking! He said:

“We are very happy with Audrella and all our customer service associates who help in that manner”

Also, he went to say that they are now training staff to recognize if someone is being scammed like this again! Cecil said: “I don’t have much” Which is why he was so pleased that woman had really helped him from being scammed. There are millions of people, but especially seniors who are the victims of financial fraud, we need to look after our elderly, and help protect them from scammers and bad people like this! Please SHARE the story and help others not get scammed with this rouse!