Inspirational Stories

She married him today. At the end of the wedding party, her mother gave her a newly opened bank savings passbook, with $1000 deposited in it. She told her, “My dear daughter, take this passbook. Keep it as a record of your married life. Whenever something happy and memorable happens in your new life, put some money in. Write down what it’s about next to the amount. The more memorable the event is, the more money you can put in. I’ve done the first one for you today. Do the others with your husband. When you look back after many...

“Selena, your father and I have something we’d like to tell you,” Mom said. I knew something was up. I gave her a weary look and followed her to my room,where dad was sitting on the bed waiting. They gave each other a look, and after a short silence, mom said, “Honey, your dad and I love you very much…” “Yeah, mom. What’s going on?” She looked back at dad, Dad took a deep breath. “Your mother and I are getting a divorce,” he let out in a rush. My brain felt numb, unable to wrap itself around the idea...

Jeff had lived alone for years after his daughter moved out to study in a different state. One day, he was surprised to hear her weak voice calling out for help outside his door. Since Jeff Wright’s daughter, Amanda, moved to a town six hours away by bus to study, he lived alone, losing his wife when Amanda was just a baby. She ended up staying in that town until she graduated, as she claimed to have found good work. Jeff would often feel lonely, but he would try his best to keep himself preoccupied with working passionately in the...

Peter Setton was enraged at the sight of his two-year-old grandson, the child of a man he hated, and it drove him to do the unthinkable. Peter Setton slammed his fist onto the kitchen table. “Will you shut that kid up?” he screamed. Across the kitchen, his daughter Alice picked up her two-year-old son Glen and started to rock him, trying to soothe the baby. Glen was teething, and he was understandably weepy, but Pete had no patience and no tolerance for the baby’s gripes. Alice was shocked by the look of anger and intense dislike her father threw at...

Ben and Martha Gibson lost their son, Michael, in a hit-and-run accident a couple of years ago. Since then, Ben’s furniture shop lost a lot of business, and they could barely pay their bills until envelopes of money started appearing on their doorstep. Eventually, Ben caught the person sending them and couldn’t believe who he was. “We’re going to have to sell the store, honey. It’s not working out,” Martha said with a long sigh while looking at the finances of their furniture store located in Reno, Nevada. She and her husband, Ben, had built the shop from the ground...

A man humiliated his wife because he grew up thinking being a mother is a very easy task. He’ll never forget the lesson he was taught later. Chris is a 40-year-old man who works as a junior staff in a large business firm. He had worked there for years but because of his prickly nature, he had not been promoted. He often took that anger out on his wife, Rose, who’s 15 years younger than him and had been working as a doctor when she married Chris. They lived together in a house she bought during her years as a...