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Your Inspirational Stories

The following stories have been tagged with Gratitude

Thank You!

I have wanted to tell this story for many years since it occurred when I was 16, and I am now 67. This is the perfect place and I hope the people involved who helped me and my friends so many years ago will see it and know how truly grateful I am to them. I was riding in the back seat of a car when suddenly the car slid off of the wet road and turned upside down. The roof of the car was cru... MORE
Values: GRATITUDE

Song of Spring

When I was a very little girl, my father's family would all gather at my great-grandmother's house for Sunday dinner after church every week. She lived down a mile-long dirt lane surrounded by acres of land and after dessert, I loved nothing more than to go for a walk and explore with my daddy. In the spring, whenever the fields at Grandma Sally's would fill with golden sprigs, he would pick on... MORE
Values: GRATITUDE

Sharing

When I heard the doorbell ring, I went promptly to the door. As I opened it I saw a young man, about 24 years of age, standing there quietly. His first words were 'Good evening ma’am. All I'm asking for is bread.’ As I reached for my purse, he insisted he truly did want food. It was then I knew he was hungry. I went into the kitchen and packed him a parcel with sliced and buttere... MORE
Values: GRATITUDE

Unwilling Student

I love it at night. It's peaceful. And when it cools down I sometimes do some ironing. I don't really care for it. I work full time and too busy for most housework. I remember the old woman who taught me to iron. I was about 15 and somehow got a live-in job taking care of a woman who had been an able-bodied, healthy woman until the accident or tumor or something that caused her to be paralyzed.... MORE
Values: GRATITUDE

The Strangers Who Cared

It was to be our second Christmas in Germany and we decided to avoid the naked tree problem that we had the year before. We tried ordering an artificial tree from the States, only to learn that the packaging was too big to send through the A.P.O. mail system. We then wrote to my father, and he agreed to purchase a tree for us. He would ship it to us in several smaller boxes. Two days before Ch... MORE
Values: GRATITUDE

My Little Determination

I was seventeen, pregnant and scared there was no help that was going to come from the father. And I still had to graduate high school. My mother and father had lost all hope in me in graduating or even being a mother. That year I found my strength through my child. After 15 hours of labor she was here and I was determined to show her, even in her birth, that I am worthy of being her mother ev... MORE
Values: GRATITUDE