Courage can be found in all ages. When three robbers, two with guns, forced their way into the home of a couple with two children in Norwalk, CA, 7-year-old Carlos grabbed his 6-year-old sister and a cell phone and then locked themselves in the bathroom. Carlos then called 911 and told dispatch his parents were being held by…

How many times have you seen a cross and flowers on a roadside, or other memorials that mark the spot where a life was lost? Don’t you sometimes wonder about the people touched by these tragedies and how life turns out for those left behind? A new inspirational fiction book gives us an inside look.   New…

Figure skater Joannie Rochette may have received a bronze medal last night, but what she won transcended well beyond the podium. Yesterday, the Inspiration Report touched on Rochette’s personal triumph–her ability to keep skating despite her mother’s death, skating being a way to honor her mother’s memory, love, and spirit.  Rochette was able to call on…

Figure skater Joannie Rochette’s story is a difficult one to write because it’s a very personal one: Just a few days before the individual female figure skating competition was to begin, Rochette’s mother, Therese, arrived in Vancouver but suffered a sudden, massive heart attack instead.  Rochette’s father, Normand, found his wife passed out in the apartment they were staying at;…

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