Overalls in Heaven | Leaving a Legacy of Love by Manndi Maphies DeBoef | Inspiring Story #130

It is a humbling and honoring feat to leave a legacy of love …

Run with Roshni – When Break-Up Leads to Breakthrough | Inspiring Story #129

Roshni, a strong Gorkha, Indian woman, is left devastated after a break-up. She can’t think, eat or sleep until, one morning, she is called to rise with the sun and run…

Beauty From Ashes by Julie Shangle | Inspiring Story #128

What was meant to destroy turned out to be an opportunity to find greater purpose …

New Life. New Me. By Linda Strader | Inspiring Story #127

A beautiful (and entertaining) story inspired by Linda Strader’s latest book “Uprooted, a New Life in the Arizona Sun – prequel to her memoir “Summers of Fire”

You Are So Beautiful | Growing Beyond Insecurities and Learning Self-Love | By Sonam Akther| Inspiring Story #122

Sonam Akther, from Bangladesh, grew up feeling ugly and insecure, unable to meet the beauty standards placed upon her and other women around the world.Today, Sonam, as an educated woman completing her PhD in neuroscience, shares a new story – one of self-love, where women praise other women for their work, for their ideas and […]

Letting Love In with Sheri Salata | Story about Opening Ourselves to Love | Inspiring Story #120

 A beautiful piece about letting love into our life … this story is an extract from Sheri Salata’s memoir “The Beautiful No: And Other Tales of Trial, Transcendence, and Transformation”Love. Specifically, sexy, romantic, passionate, real soul-to-soul love. This is tough. Embarrassing. And tinged with what feels like genuine shame. Love is my unsolved mystery—one of the great […]

Pennies from Heaven | Nothing Can Separate Us | By Brenda Kay Ledford | Inspiring Story #125

No matter how deep our losses might be, nothing can separate us from the love of our loved ones…  A special story dedicated to all those who have lost loved ones over the past eighteen months. I’m counting pennies in the music room that was Mother’s sickroom.  I gaze through the window at the Blue […]

What is Love? | By Jesse, Aged 8 | Inspiring Story #124

What is Love?

Our Shortest Story. From Our Youngest Contributor.

The Story of Flotinya | How a Small Flower Radiates Big Love | By Alayana | Inspiring Story #123

This is the story of a tiny yellow flower expressing herself willfully, reaching out to the Universe, wanting to share her Beauty, her Light and her Love for All… This morning,Being out thereIn NatureFor my daily walkI am Blessed withA Meaningful EncounterOh, you couldn’t guess…Neither was ITo suspectSuch a Sacred MeetingIn between blades of grassHidden […]

The One I Fight With & The One I Love | By Karletta Marie | Inspiring Story #121

One early mid-October evening a romantic beach walk turns into a foot-stomping fight. In this short story, we highlight the positive side of being able to argue with the ones we love.Beyond the horizon, over the Mediterranean sea, a softening sun shone upon angel wings spread across the sky.  Feathery clouds played about, draped in […]

The Good Things Jar | Create a Jar of Bottled Hope | By Keri Harty | Inspiring Story #117

Keri Harty’s “Good Things Jar” is like a jar of bottled hope.  The little messages remind her and her family that we can still expect good things to come our way, even during the most difficult times.My family keeps a “Good Things Jar” on our kitchen table.  I have small cut pieces of paper and a […]

Your Season to Shine by Karletta Marie | Short Story of Hope | Inspiring Story #118

 If your season is not now, trust that it’s on the way. Keep hoping, keep expecting…I’ve walked this path more than 100 times, winding into mountains, through the orange of autumn, around grey winter skies, under storms,  drenched skin, shivers down my spine. “How long will this grey season last?” I’d ask Thorny Bush as I […]