Category: life

Fallen Officer’s Wife Prays at Grave for Miracle, Meets This Special Man Weeks Later

April Katherman-Redgrave and her late husband, Mike, were teenagers when they first met. They later married and had two sons. Their small family was just perfect before the tragedy struck. When Mike, a San Jose police officer, was killed on duty in a motorcycle accident, April was utterly lost and heartbroken. Visiting the cemetery months after…


Water with Life

“Water with Life” features Taiwan’s waterscape throughout four seasons and takes audience to an unprecedented journey that enables people to see diverse lives relying on water and serious impacts caused by global warming, viewers can take a close look into the water environment and destruction. This title is only available in the US. – Feature…


7 Steps to Clarity

Living with adversity is hard, but a life without clarity is harder. I have found that some of the “hardest” times in my life are eased by the single-minded clarity they bring to my priorities. When someone you love is sick, for example, you have energy to serve them in ways that you never thought…


Lessons From a Refrigerator

I usually wear glasses only when reading or typing, but on this particular day, I’d forgotten to leave them at the desk, opened the refrigerator for some lunch fixings, and was appalled. I was already aware of the bigger blotches and stains, and kept telling myself the fridge needed cleaning. But the specs brought to…


Humpty Dumpty … and the Rest of Us

There’s an old saying: “Dear God: Help me get up; I can fall down by myself.” Robert Redford’s film “Quiz Show” gives us the story of a man who fell hard. A young professor at Columbia University, Charles Van Doren gets the chance to appear on “Twenty-One,” a 1950s television quiz show. The producers have…


You Won’t Believe How a Small Shift in Habit Can Be Life Changing

Habits are extraordinarily powerful. They make up almost half of our daily actions. A change in your habits will have a massive impact. It can truly be life-changing. We’ve all seen or read the stories of transformation. A high school dropout that ends up at the top of the business world, or someone struggling with…


4 Tips to Slow Down When You Feel Overwhelmed

There are times in life when hurrying is the way to go. If your child yells for help, your house is on fire, you’re in a race, or if your plane leaves in seven minutes and you just arrived at check-in—you should definitely pick up the pace.  What happens, though, when life gets so overwhelming…


Study Nixes Mars Life in Meteorite Found in Antarctica

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A 4 billion-year-old meteorite from Mars that caused a splash here on Earth decades ago contains no evidence of ancient, primitive Martian life after all, scientists reported Thursday. In 1996, a NASA-led team announced that organic compounds in the rock appeared to have been left by living creatures. Other scientists were skeptical and…


Parents Chose Life for Baby With 3 Heart Defects and Organs Growing Outside of Her Body

Faced with the prospect of bringing a baby into the world with three heart defects, and a condition with her liver and abdominal organs growing outside of her body, a couple leaned toward faith to summon the strength to refuse abortion. Today, their baby girl is thriving. Mary-Christine and Ryan Robeson of York, Pennsylvania, both…


5 Rules for Finding Purpose in Life

Today’s world is so full of fools who have turned the world into a chaotic mess that the most basic, common-sense statements become nuggets of profound wisdom. I almost stood up and cheered when I came across one of these the other day. The statement in question was made by Abigail Shrier, an Oxford and…