Inspiration Report

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Stacy Wakefield, the wife of Boston Red Sox great Tim Wakefield, who passed away at 57, shared a message she found from her husband. Wakefield, who was suffering from brain cancer, had words of wisdom in a note that his wife shared with Boston Bruins legend Bobby Orr. He posted the message on his X…

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Kyndra Smith was preparing to board her flight when she got a phone call delivering heartbreaking news. As she broke down in the middle of the airport, God sent two strangers to comfort her. Social media is typically a place where kindness, civility, and common courtesy go out of the window. Not only that, but…

Dramatic bodycam footage showing a New York Police Department officer pleading with a man not to commit suicide displays the emotional toll officers typically face in the field. NYPD Officer Carl Fayette’s body camera captured his attempts with fellow Officer Eleodoro Mata to talk a man off the ledge literally. NYPD 26tth Precinct wrote in…

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While Adele was in the middle of singing her song “When We Were Young,” during her Las Vegas show, she stopped the performance after she recognized the doctor who delivered her 10-year-old son in the crowd. While she was walking through the aisles of the concert hall in Ceasar’s palace, the singer noticed a familiar…

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A bus driver from the Dallas-Fort Worth area is receiving praise after performing the Heimlich maneuver on a choking first grader. Dallas Independent School District (ISD) bus driver Raquel Radford Baker was letting students off at school last month when 7-year-old Preston came up to her to tell her there was a penny in his…

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Pink recently opened up in an interview with “60 Minutes” about how she nearly died from a drug overdose as a teenager. “I grew up in a house where every day my parents were screaming at each other, throwing things. They hated each other,” Pink told Cecilia Vega. She described herself at the time saying,…

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A volunteer youth football coach who was shot four times in front of his team in St. Louis, Missouri, by a parent who was upset that his son wasn’t one of the starting players says he’s “blessed” to have survived the attack. Shaquille Latimore told KSDK, “I am a miracle. I beat the odds. A…

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Daines and Amanda Tanner’s dog jumped onto their bed a few months ago and pawed their bodies while they were trying to sleep. It was around 5:30 a.m. on a Saturday, the one day the couple hoped to sleep in each week. Amanda had never seen Axel, their 1-year-old border collie, so active that early.…

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A football player is thanking God for not being blinded in an accident where he suffered burns on his face. He’s since created a new line of merchandise to raise awareness about the plight of burn injuries. When speaking to reporters, Cleveland Browns tight end David Njoku declared, “I give all the glory to God”…

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A recent study revealed that religious people tend to have better mental health results than their non-religious counterparts, a more pronounced phenomenon in more religious countries. In conjunction with the Radiant Foundation, Gallup released a new report called “Faith & Wellness: The Worldwide Connection Between Spirituality & Well-being.” Based on interviews of 1.5 million people…

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