Inspirational Stories

Jeff had lived alone for years after his daughter moved out to study in a different state. One day, he was surprised to hear her weak voice calling out for help outside his door. Since Jeff Wright’s daughter, Amanda, moved to a town six hours away by bus to study, he lived alone, losing his wife when Amanda was just a baby. She ended up staying in that town until she graduated, as she claimed to have found good work. Jeff would often feel lonely, but he would try his best to keep himself preoccupied with working passionately in the...

Peter Setton was enraged at the sight of his two-year-old grandson, the child of a man he hated, and it drove him to do the unthinkable. Peter Setton slammed his fist onto the kitchen table. “Will you shut that kid up?” he screamed. Across the kitchen, his daughter Alice picked up her two-year-old son Glen and started to rock him, trying to soothe the baby. Glen was teething, and he was understandably weepy, but Pete had no patience and no tolerance for the baby’s gripes. Alice was shocked by the look of anger and intense dislike her father threw at...

Ben and Martha Gibson lost their son, Michael, in a hit-and-run accident a couple of years ago. Since then, Ben’s furniture shop lost a lot of business, and they could barely pay their bills until envelopes of money started appearing on their doorstep. Eventually, Ben caught the person sending them and couldn’t believe who he was. “We’re going to have to sell the store, honey. It’s not working out,” Martha said with a long sigh while looking at the finances of their furniture store located in Reno, Nevada. She and her husband, Ben, had built the shop from the ground...

A man humiliated his wife because he grew up thinking being a mother is a very easy task. He’ll never forget the lesson he was taught later. Chris is a 40-year-old man who works as a junior staff in a large business firm. He had worked there for years but because of his prickly nature, he had not been promoted. He often took that anger out on his wife, Rose, who’s 15 years younger than him and had been working as a doctor when she married Chris. They lived together in a house she bought during her years as a...

Lucas was driving to another city, but there was a baby that wouldn’t stop crying on his bus. He reached one of the stops and decided to scold the parents for not doing anything about it. That’s when he realized the baby was alone and had to do something he had never imagined. The crying had been going for way too long on the bus, and Lucas couldn’t imagine how his passengers were tolerating the noise at this point. Lucas was driving the bus from Miami to Orlando, a course that took around three hours. For almost the entire trip,...

An elderly lady discovers that her landlord is evicting her, selling the house she has lived in for forty years. She thinks she will be living on the streets, but a miracle happens. It was the fault of all these up-and-coming families, Barbara thought. Over the last five years, the old, cozy neighborhood had been quickly ‘gentrifying,’ as the estate agents called it. One by one, her old friends were forced to sell or had their leases terminated by greedy landlords determined to make a fast buck. “I hate them,” Barbara cried, with tears in her eyes. “Hate them! Barbara...