Posted by For 101 years the town of Minden, Nebraska has been lighting up the courthouse with Christmas lights. 101 years! That’s a lot of lights! Since 1946, the celebration includes the “Light of the World” Christmas pageant. Generations have come to look at the lights and feel the joy of the season. Click the link below to learn more about the…Read more »
Posted by It’s Christmastime, so Stories of Joy is bringing you some “extra joy” the next couple of days. For the past 25 years CBS Evening News correspondent Steve Hartman uses his segment “On the Road” to share joy with stories of people doing good things for each other. He says this story of kindness tops them all!…Read more »
Posted by We usually hear pass the potatoes, pass the bread, pass the salt, but what does pass the bricks mean? Pass the Bricks is a great program set up by Charlie Jeffers. Charlie has been building with Lego sets since he was four or five years old. Now he’s a senior in high school and realizes…Read more »
Posted by Mitchell Robinson has made it to the bright lights and big city as the starting center for the New York Knicks, but he hasn’t forgotten where he comes from. When Robinson’s high school coach’s wife was diagnosed with cancer, Robinson frequently visited her at the hospital. At her funeral, Robinson told his former coach that he…Read more »
Posted by 14-year-old Lauren Schroeder was volunteering at a local food bank when she noticed there were not a lot of fresh vegetables. She went home and told her parents that she wanted to start a garden on their farm. So she got to work researching the best vegetables to grow and then tended to them daily. Her first…Read more »
Posted by Get ready for a life-changing, heartwarming story that will bring tears of healing joy. In 2010 war-torn Afghanistan, an unlikely pair of Craig Grossi, a Maine combat veteran suffering with PTSD, and Fred the Afghan, a goofy, loving stray West Asian Village Dog, came together and saved each other’s lives. Click the link below for…Read more »
Posted by Teachers make a huge difference. One teacher at an elementary school in Arizona made an impact in a very short time. After just two months of teaching 6th grade, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and had to resign. Inspired by the book Sadako, the students set a goal of making 1000 paper cranes to…Read more »
Posted by Casey McIntyre knew she was dying. She also knew she wanted to make a difference for others. She did that! A million times over! Casey was diagnosed with cancer four years ago, and she had the gift of good insurance. She was well aware that not everyone has that gift, so she looked to help…Read more »
Posted by Can joy be good for your health? That’s what the BIG JOY Project explores. A group of researchers at the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley is finding this to be true. Daily “micro-acts” of joy improve your well being. It’s an interesting study, and you can read all about it…Read more »
Posted by Sometimes all it takes is someone looking and seeing. Nine years ago Katie Ortman Doble was sitting in a doctor’s office waiting for a test. The test would determine her eligibility for a cancer trial that could save her life. She was feeling overwhelmed and lonely. The woman sitting in the waiting room looked and…Read more »
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