A 7-year-old Portland, Oregon girl saved her mother’s life last week with a maneuver she recalled from watching “Mrs. Doubtfire.” Amira Thorton was watching TV when she heard a strange noise coming from the kitchen. Her mother, Jennifer, was choking on a piece of sausage. Amira immediately took action, performing the Heimlich maneuver she saw Robin Williams use in the 1993 comedy. “I picked her up three times,” Amira told KABC. “She spit the sausage out.” “It was pretty scary because there was nobody else here, and I couldn’t talk, I couldn’t, I was just in shock,” Jennifer added. And…
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Prayer request: Through Good and Bad?? I am writing to seek some advice and to ask for your prayers. I am currently 22 years old and I am 8 months pregnant. My husband and I have known each other for 7 years and had been living together for 4 years. We have a 4 year old boy which we both love a lot. Every thing seemed to be going in the right track for us, since we are so young. We had just began building our home and had a lot of plans for our future. About a month ago,…
Prayer Request: I am a divorced mother of 3 amazing kids. About 2 years ago I met someone and the relationship started out slow as friends and the relationship grew from there. I do love him and I believe he loves me. He is nothing like my ex, he is honest, faithful and doesn’t go out and party all night. However, after being together for 2 years and being a part of my kids life for almost as long, he does not love them. This is the topic of most of our arguments lately. I asked him if he did…
Prayer Request: My parents were both killed in a car crash while I was away at college 7 years ago. My life seems like it ended that day. I cry all the time. Even 7 years later. I have been diagnosed with depression but my family and friends think I’m crazy because I still cry and grieve as if my parents died yesterday. My brother on the other hand has moved on with his life as if nothing has ever happened. He doesn’t even like to talk about them when I bring them up. How long will it hurt? How…
Not that long ago, I was packing to leave for a brief and “much needed” vacation. I am very structured and well organized and have a very meticulous system of where everything is placed and needs to be i.e. clothes, accessories, jewelry, and passports. My home front functions in like manner and it would appear that nothing seems to “bypass my peripheral vision.” I function at my optimal performance when things are harmonious and in its proper order. That is why it came as an overwhelming shock to me when I arose from my bed several months ago to get…
Prayer Request: I have been with my husband for nine years. Through out that time he has cheated on me. He has caused me both physical and emotional abuse. We fought every day and I don’t remember ever being happy with him, but I stayed because we have kids together. I wanted them to have their dad around. Never realizing how much we were actually hurting them. I held on to the hope that one day he would change, that everything would be okay, but about a month ago he walked out and we haven’t seen him since. He doesn’t…
Meagan Good and husband DeVon Franklin know all about waiting for “the one.” The couple remained celibate before saying “I do” in 2012. Now they’re ready to share their wisdom in a new self-help book called The Wait. The book will be a Christian Relationship Guide tackling the subject of celibacy. “It’s that waiting period where we really get the most anxiety and the most frustration.. It’s all about how you handle the waiting period in life, from the relationship wait, to the marriage wait, to the career wait.” ( I so agree ) As previously reported, DeVon and Meagan…
This is truly heartbreaking. Pastor of Macon, Georgia reportedly shot himself right outside his home before his Sunday morning service. Rev. Teddy Parker Jr. was the pastor of Bibb Mount Zion Baptist Church, 3268 Avondale Mill Road in Macon. Reports say it was his wife who found him in the driveway of their with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Pastor Parker was 41 and he leaves behind his wife Larrinecia Sims Parker and their two daughters. He entered the ministry when he was 22 and was ordained at Fellowship Bible Baptist Church, 431 Dunbar Road, Warner Robins, where he also taught…
The generous YouTubers from GiveBackFilms are back this week with a new act of kindness. This time, Josh, Kyle, and Andrew interviewed homeless people in Atlanta, Ga., to “get a better understanding of their life.” The young men found an assortment of people, all with poignant backstories. Some of the anecdotes are difficult to listen to — but watch the whole video. Because in the end, they surprised their interviewees with $200. The cash may not have been enough to turn lives completely around, but the gratitude was immense nonetheless. “Take pride in what you’ve got. If you’ve got a…
Prayer Request: Please, I need prayer I am in a relationship with a man who is not a christian. He believes himself to be, but is not. I have been alone for 10 years because of abusive relationships. This man is not abusive, but I don’t feel good about this and need prayer that God fill me with Himself so that I don’t feel the need to have a man who is not of God. He is fun, and we have known each other for a long time. I don’t want to sin. I need prayer and so does he.…
Hello Praying Women, I am going through so much right now. I’m about to lose my home and have no where to go. Out of all of my friends, I am the only one saved. But it seems like no matter how much wrong they do, God continues to bless them. Me on the other hand, try to do everything right but it seems like I’m getting punished. I often wonder if I were to go back to my old ways would my life be a little better. It’s like how can I preach about how good God is when…
Prayer Request: Please pray for my family. As long as I can remember, My mom has been a drug addict. I was taken away from her when I was 10 years old and raised by my grandmother. She has been in rehab programs all my life, but she never completes the program. No matter how low she has sunk, I have always been right there for her. I defended her when everyone else put her down. But now it’s getting harder to do. I now have a family of my own. My husband has told me that she is no…
I would like some insight on a situation I’m going through. I’m a newlywed. I have no kids, but my husband has two kids from a previous marriage. I always said that I didn’t want a man with kids because I didn’t want to deal with the baby mama drama. But it’s totally the opposite with my husband and his ex-wife. There’s absolutely no drama between the two. In fact she’s so nice and BEAUTIFUL! My husband’s family still loves her and invites her to everything. She’s even best friends with my husband’s sister. I’m not the jealous type, but…
Prayer Request: Hi ladies. I have a big dilemma but before I expose myself let me say… Please do not judge me. I really need prayers not judgement. If you’re going to leave a negative comment, please don’t comment at all. I have been married for 2 years to my husband. He’s a great man. No complaints at all. But lately I have been having a feeling that he’s living a double life. As much as it hurts me to admit it I think my husband is gay! It all started from a conversation I was having with him about…
There are many benefits to finding ways to reverse type 2 diabetes. A big one is its expense. According to the American Diabetes Association, the combined cost of medical care and lost productivity due to diabetes in the United States exceeded $174 billion in 2007. People with diabetes pay 2.3 times as much for health care as non-diabetics, and $1 in every $10 spent for health care is attributable to diabetes. Sadly, even though type 2 diabetes was once considered an adult disease, so many children now receive this diagnosis that it is no longer referred to as adult onset.…
Prayer Request: “I am in a mess….I am one year divorced from a man that was/still is emotionally abusive. I did not realize how bad it was until I moved away from him and our three children four months ago. I have suffered through him not working, me taking care of our children along with a full time job and a part-time seasonal business that we owned, to an abortion of my third pregnancy; to making friends with another man that I told my then husband that I was having an affair. In a way it was an affair, not…
Prayer Request: Since I was born it has always been just my mother and I. I have seen her through grave illness and other hardships. She has seen me through many dark times. We have come upon very difficult times right now. We can no longer afford our rent and we have no means of subletting our apartment. Furthermore, there is a man in our lives that is very dangerous and imbalanced that is offering us a place to stay. I fear our safety and our emotional/spiritual/psychological well being. We need prayers that this dangerous man will not harm us,…
Principal James Berardi assumed the envelope was from a parent. After all, who else would have left it for him, wedged between his door over the weekend? On Monday morning, when the principal found it in his office at Grizzly Hill Elementary School in Nevada City, Calif., he absentmindedly opened it and read the note inside, he told The Huffington Post in an interview. Then it hit him — a parent hadn’t written the note. It wasn’t a complaint or suggestion from a colleague. It was an apology letter from a former student, along with $300 that the student had…
Kareem Gibbs (pictured), is an 18-year-old high school student who is considered to be charming, always upbeat and rarely seen without a smile on his face. The youth would make anyone think he didn’t have a care in the world, but behind Gibbs’ sunny disposition is a sad reality — he has a rare form of cancer and has been diagnosed to have only months to live. Yet, despite his gloomy forecast, Gibbs is upbeat and excited about being nominated for homecoming king at the Texas high school he attends in Keller-Central, reports My Fox 4. A coach at Keller-Central…
Bullying is out of control in our schools. Although it is hard for most parents to hear about their child’s negative behavior, parents of children who bully must work closely with the school to resolve the situation. Parents need to remember that children who bully are at high risk for engaging in risky or even criminal behaviors, and it is very important in a bullying situation for the parents to act immediately. If you think that your child may be bullying others, read about the warning signs for children who bully and work with your child’s school to address this…
