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John Grisham-The Innocent Man

James Lee Burke-Robicheaux

Dennis Lehane-Live by Night

Lee Child-Killing Floor

Laura Hillenbrand-Unbroken

Strangers in action!

Strangers Carry Injured Woman Down the Mountain When She Couldn't Continue Hike

Collapsed at the top of a 14,000 feet summit in the Rocky Mountains, strangers banded together to carry her all the way down.

“It was just so amazing,” 55-year-old Beverly Wedelstedt told InsideEdition.com. “Amazing humanity.”

The question-how do you feel about people who are agnostic?

First, I love them then I pray their hearts are softened toward God so they may believe in Jesus & seek the peace that passes all understanding. My mind keeps going to John 3:16:

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

I have friends who are agnostic & love them as I do my fellow Christian friends but as a Christian I feel sad for them. I'm not a perfect person but a sinner saved from hell by the grace of God. Life here on earth is so short, everlasting life is forever. I've wrestled with loss of love ones especially the last 2 years but God has been with me & I pray those who are agnostic get to experience the peace that passes understanding.

I think my biggest takeaway is that life or death is not for us to decide. Even God, the Judge over all judges, does not have a clear and fast rule - known to us, at least - for when and where execution is deserved as a punishment. The Bible abounds with passages that appear contrary to others.

 

Only God can see to someone's heart and only God can know the complete truth. If God wants someone to die, then I'll let Him take care of making that happen.

 

When it comes down to it, it's 100% my true belief that if I was to sit down and have a conversation with God or Jesus about someone's gravest sins, I think the conversation would be absolutely dominated about penitence, forgiveness, redemption, and salvation rather than vengeance and punishment.

Excellent post! Thank you for your insight!

Prayers for Coach Duncum and family

Great inspirational story - two young men who credit their parents for their success. I'm not going to far out on a limb thinking those parents are very proud of their children.

Fraternal twins named co-valedictorians, head to MIT together

Prayers for TTC & family.

The Doobie Brothers

Supertramp

Styx

ELO

YES

I have never heard of such a wonderful tribute before.

Hundreds Of People Bring Backpacks Instead Of Flowers To Woman's Funeral

If any of you have been going to graduation ceremonies lately or know of someone who has autism this story & video will put an 'unexpected' smile on your face!

Autistic Teen Stuns Crowd as He Breaks His Silence and Gives Awe-Inspiring Commencement Speech

Well, my 6 year old met a new friend on the street. The boy is about ten and they start shooting hoops on our basketball goal. After about ten minutes, my son asks this question "Do you go to church?" the boy answers "Sometime with my grandma." MY son then asks "Have you been baptized?"

 

 

 

How many adult would have the guts to ask those questions after meeting a new friend for ten minutes.

Not many...gotta love kids:)

Desperate Airline Traveler Thanks NFL's Jermaine Gresham for His 'Amazing' Good Deed

A good news story!

“I was stunned. I want everyone to recognize how amazing it was that this guy did this!” she tells PEOPLE. “He didn’t expect anything to come from this. He never told me his name. He did it anonymously. It was so honest and so pure.”

I'm mowing twice a week, weed eating every other time I mow. Happy to report all weeds are gone thanks to weed & feeding in early spring :up:

This is a story where a teen saw another person in need and stepped up to intervene.

Teen Uses Umbrella To Shade Elderly Woman For Nearly 2 Hours At Bus Stop

I loved it...didn't see this coming thought for sure it was the mother.

Mom of Five, Once a High School Dropout, Graduates from Law School with Help from Her Kids

An incredibly inspiring story.

You had me at hello - Jerry Maguire

Houston, we have a problem - Apollo 13

You can't handle the truth - A Few Good Men

I love acts of kindness! Thanks to Officer Kelly for a very inspiring gesture-happy it went viral:)

Kelly said he paid for the groceries to encourage others to do random acts of kindness.

"It is guaranteed that Kelly wouldn't want the credit from this, but it's these random acts of kindness that inspire US ALL to be kind to others!" the Cleveland Police department wrote.

Officer's 'extraordinary' act of kindness goes viral

Good friends of ours are raising, and have legally adopted their nephew, who was born with a cocaine addiction. His mom ended up overdosing almost two years ago, but seeing him endure what he had to endure was heartbreaking and eye-opening. But he is pretty much past all that and is in a much better situation.

 

But I can't help but wonder about other children who don't have the good fortune that he has had.

There are so many special people that step up like your good friends who take on these special children but I'm sure there are some that fall through the cracks. You're right it is heartbreaking and eye opening.

Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome has been a problem for years, below is an article written in Oct 2013. This was a call for awareness 5 years ago. :banghead:

I can’t tell just by looking at a newborn if he will have post-birth drug withdrawal. At least not at first. It usually takes 48-72 hours after birth, and sometimes even longer. But once the withdrawal symptoms kick in, I know. Babies born with drug withdrawal, called neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), are completely inconsolable. They’re miserable. They have tremors, irritability, increased wakefulness, high-pitched cries, vomiting, diarrhea, dehydration, and in the worst cases, seizures.

It’s the sad reality of today’s prescription drug abuse epidemic.

A common misconception is that babies born with drug withdrawal come from mothers with illegal drug abuse problems. Sure, they’re a part of this equation– but they’re not the majority. Of the drug screening we’ve done on Ohio mothers whose babies have NAS, 75% of the mothers testing positive for drugs were using prescription opioids, like Percocet and Vicodin – NOT illegal street drugs. This issue is not isolated to Cincinnati or even Ohio. It’s a nation-wide trend.

This problem – babies born with drug withdrawal – has a direct correlation to the five-fold increase in prescription opioids, or pain-killers, distributed across the country in the last 10 years. In fact, enough prescription opioids were prescribed in 2010 to medicate every American adult around-the-clock for a month.

Now every hour one baby is born suffering from opiate withdrawal across the United States.

We can do better for the next generation. But how? In Ohio, six free-standing children’s hospitals, including Cincinnati Children’s, have received funding from the Governor’s office to conduct research and determine the best treatment protocols.

In Cincinnati, we’ve established a task force made up of the Perinatal Institute and all of the regional birthing hospitals. Not only are we setting out to standardize treatment for these babies, we’re also trying to figure out through drug screening which ones are at-risk for delayed withdrawal symptoms.

This drug screening is a very timely and important step. Most babies with drug withdrawal don’t start having symptoms until 48-72 hours after birth (and sometimes even longer). So it’s possible for a baby to be discharged, sent home and then have withdrawal symptoms. We want to avoid that scenario. Because babies with drug withdrawal feel miserable and will likely require special medical attention, they’re incredibly difficult to care for. Plus 60% of them will need pharmacologic treatment to help manage their withdrawal symptoms. Our goal is to detect which babies will have these symptoms early and keep them for observation and treatment if necessary.

This is our approach to neonatal abstinence syndrome in Cincinnati, once we’re aware of the baby’s drug withdrawal. But what about preventing it from happening in the first place? The solution has a seemingly simple answer with not-so-easy implementation:

If you’re thinking about becoming pregnant, talk to your doctor about tapering off of pain killers before conceiving.

Doctors, be aware of how often you’re prescribing pain-killers, and be thoughtful about how long your patients have been on them.

Awareness of this problem is our best defense in stopping it from happening in the future. Please help me spread the word by sharing this post with your families, friends, and colleagues.

Awareness Needed: Babies Born With Drug Withdrawal - Cincinnati Children's Blog

I'm with @archangel on this one. I, too, cried when Dale Earnhardt died. He meant a lot to me personally. Just because someone is in a dangerous career doesn't mean that if they die doing that, that crying isn't a natural reaction. I have multiple students serving in the military right now, stationed in dangerous places and doing dangerous jobs. If (Lord protect them) something were to happen to one of them, I'd certainly cry my eyes out. Likely for days. Yet, they chose a dangerous career.

 

I'm going to give a somewhat different example. For those of you that have been around for awhile, you will remember Alabama Larry. I never once met Larry in person, but I felt like that I knew him personally and when he passed away, it hurt. Without ever meeting him, he made an impact on my life. That's why ol' TB&G will always have the Alabama avatar photo.

 

The connection there is that, in a different way, Dale Earnhardt made an impact on my life, too. His loss was painful.

I agree so much with this post. Crying for loss of a loved one, a person you connect with or a situation that seems so unfair is a way to come to grips with the reality or simply a way to vent. I'm not a cryer by natural but there are certain times that the tears flow.