Forgiving Her Son's Killer

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May 23, 2011 a project of CharityFocus If someone gives you negative energy, you give back positive, affirmative energy -- such as forgiveness. [...] This is the giving within for-give-ness. - Michael Bernard Beckwith - Forgiving Her Son's Killer It would be easy for Mary Johnson and Oshea Israel to be enemies -- he killed Johnson's only son. But their first face-to-face conversation took a remarkable turn. "You were not that 16-year-old. You were a grown man. I shared with you about my son." At the end of their meeting at the prison, Johnson was overcome by emotion. "The initial thing to do was just try and hold you up as best I can," Israel says, "just hug you like I would my own mother." Johnson says, "After you left the room, I began to say, 'I just hugged the man that murdered my son.' And I instantly knew that all that anger and the animosity, all the stuff I had in my heart for 12 years for you -- I knew it was over, that I had totally forgiven you." A touching NPR story. { read more } Be The Change The next time you feel wronged, take appropriate action externally, but internally, try practicing for-give-ness. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Homeless Man Bails out Banker A Poem Is Secrets from 17 Years of Silence The Man Who Stopped A Nuclear War DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 106,463 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other CharityFocus projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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The Art of Joy

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May 22, 2011 a project of CharityFocus When you do things from your soul you feel a river moving in you, a joy. - Rumi - The Art of Joy Is artmaking selfish? In this interview, artist Gale Wagner reflects on art as a grateful response to fulfillment, as an expression of joy, and as a way of serving it forward. "We're so fortunate. Do you realize that a third of the world's human population isn't going to have fresh bath water or fresh drinking water? And look at this! I'm wasting it washing my car! The only antidote, I believe, is realizing that I've got to give back. And I'm already making the highest spiritual thing I could make," Wagner says. "So why make [art]? Well, I make it because it's the best I can do. It's the highest, most spiritually, visually rewarding and enjoyable journey in every aspect." { read more } Submitted by: R. Whittaker Be The Change Take an inner inventory. What things give you a moment of joy? COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Four Ways to Respond in an Argument 8 Weeks to a Better Brain Sleep Helps Us Remember What We Need To The Power of Touch DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 106,450 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other CharityFocus projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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Family Finds $45K -- And Returns It

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May 21, 2011 a project of CharityFocus Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson - Family Finds $45K -- And Returns It Josh Ferrin picked up the keys to his family's first home last week, and as he opened the attic door hatch and climbed up, he saw a box that looked like a WWII ammunition case. Then he found seven more, all stuffed full with tightly wound rolls of cash -- about $45,000 in all. Ferrin thought about how such a large sum of money could go a long way, pay bills, buy things he never thought he could afford. "I'm not perfect, and I wish I could say there was never any doubt in my mind." Ferrin said. "But the money wasn't ours to keep and I don't believe you get a chance very often to do something radically honest, to do something ridiculously awesome for someone else and that is a lesson I hope to teach to my children." { read more } Be The Change Look for opportunities to be radically honest today. For further inspiration: { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News A Poem Is Entrepreneur of Small Things The Hardest Work You Will Ever Do The Sound of One Hand Clapping DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 106,430 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other CharityFocus projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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4 Reasons To Keep a Work Diary

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May 20, 2011 a project of CharityFocus Learning without reflection is a waste, reflection without learning is dangerous. - Confucius - 4 Reasons To Keep a Work Diary What does Oprah have in common with General George S. Patton? Being an avid diarist. Recently, Oprah offered her readers glimpses into her diaries, along with encouragement to keep their own. Many well-known figures throughout history, from John Adams to Andy Warhol, have faithfully kept records of their daily lives. Aside from a place in history, are there any personal benefits of keeping a diary? This article from the Harvard Business Review outlines four good reasons for keeping a work diary: focus, patience, planning, and personal growth. { read more } Be The Change Start a diary, where you can reflect and write about your daily "work," however you define it. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Live Life as an Experiment Leadership Through Solitude Leadership Lessons from Everyday Life The Sharing Economy Emerges DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 106,413 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other CharityFocus projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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To Serve With Love

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May 19, 2011 a project of CharityFocus Much of what we do is like planting trees under which we may never sit, but plant we must. - Brother James Kimpton - To Serve With Love "A tug at my dress. I look down. There is Meena. All of six. We have just met. "Akka (sister), you must eat in our house tonight," she says. A sweet spontaneous invitation, and an offer I can't refuse. Meena and the others emerge with enormous vessels (or perhaps they only seemed enormous because the bearers are so small). I am served with rice, vegetables, and curry -- and love. Such love. It's a love that will surprise you everywhere at Reaching the Unreached, a not-for-profit started in an Indian village by Brother James Kimpton. It is difficult to describe his work. It encompasses so much and so many. Among other things, he digs wells, runs schools, dresses wounds, rescues orphans, and feeds the hungry. There are entire villages that exist and generations of children who are because of this man's heart." This profile shares further. { read more } Be The Change Find a situation today to practice serving with love. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News How Do You Want to be Remembered? Mall Shoppers Get a Surprise 20 Ways to Travel Bell Curve of Empathy DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 106,388 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other CharityFocus projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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