# Inspiring

Star Football Player Gives Up Big Money Contract to Be of Service

Jason Brown had a five-year, $37 million contract with the St. Louis Rams but decided it was all meaningless - and just walked away from football. Brown quit the sport he worked his life to master so he could become a farmer, even though he had never farmed a day in his life. What he was thinking? He was thinking about service.

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She Overcame Her Past to Become a Marine and Mentor to Abused Girls

Growing up in 13 different foster homes and the pain of physical and sexual abuse left Tina Thomas feeling empty and incomplete. But Tina is a survivor and no longer can be defined by her past. Fate intervened in her teen years when, despite never having broken the law, she was assigned a probation officer, Mary Beth Ryan. That summer, Ryan asked Tina to be a peer mentor at a special camp for abused girls. It changed her life forever.

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Homeless Man Wants More Than Food on Thanksgiving, He Wants a Family - and Places an Ad

A deluge of love and compassion has reached a 54-year-old homeless man who had the courage to put into action the Christian tenet, "Ask and it is given." Neil Shytles posted an ad on community Facebook pages around Virginia Beach asking for someone to invite him for Thanksgiving dinner. "I was very alone last Thanksgiving. PLEASE, if you have room in your home and in your heart to share your Thanksgiving, I not only (would) be thankful, but also consider myself blessed to spend this time with you."

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Magician Surprises Veteran with New Car and Year of Rent (Video)

After a video went viral in October showing a magician ripping up a homeless man's sign and turning it into money, a fund was set up that raised $40K for the veteran to get him off the street. When the humble vet only wanted a portion of the money, the magician surprised another struggling veteran with an avalanche of life-changing gifts, and made a beautiful video.

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Radio Show Sparks Good Deed Movement

The Bobby Bones Show, a nationally-syndicated radio morning show, has sparked a movement that reminds people to be joyful in honor of a co-host's mother, who recently died of cancer.

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Ferguson Shop Owners Stunned by $200K in Donations to Rebuild

"I've never felt such love," said Natalie DuBose, a Ferguson baker whose GoFundMe page raised $252,000 from more than 7,000 admirers across the world, after her new shop was damaged in local riots.

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Chinese Millionaire Builds Free Luxury Homes in Slum Where He Grew Up

A businessman has returned to the village where he was born in southern China to repay the kindness of residents who, like him, grew up in poverty there. Having made a fortune in construction and steel industries, 54-year-old Xiong Shuihua spent more than six million dollars to transform the wooden huts into luxury homes and villas for 90 families.

# Inspiring

Act of Kindness in a New Zealand Checkout Line

When a Pak'nSave checkout operator Rebecca Mclean, 18, helped an elderly customer pay for her groceries last week she did not intend to tell anyone. However, Northern Advocate editor Craig Cooper witnessed Ms Mclean's generosity, and wrote an editorial about it.