The Kingdom Outside Us!

DailyGood: News That Inspires - May 27, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires May 27, 2026 "Disasters do reveal our true colors, but more often than not, those are dazzling." — Jamil Zaki Tornado's Legacy of Catastrophe Compassion, 15 Years Later After a massive tornado displaced a third of the residents of Joplin, Missouri, and killed nearly 160 people in May 2011, stories of kindness and cooperation overwrote the tragedy - and still do. Almost 100,000 volunteers from nearly every state helped clean up debris and rebuild. Ranchers cooked for volunteers. A university dean, who lost his own home, set up cot...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - May 26, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires May 26, 2026 "One day spent with someone you love can change everything." — Mitch Albom The Cab Driver Who Gets Paid with Time A taxi driver in Hiroshima keeps his daughter's graduation photo on the dashboard. It's a reminder of the choice that transformed their relationship. Years ago, when she was young, she told him something that pierced through everything: "I remember mom reading to me. I remember grandma cooking. I don't remember you." He was a well-paid engineer then, working late nights and weekends, but...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - May 25, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires May 25, 2026 "Don't make plans for life, because you might spoil the plans that life has for you." — Agostinho da Silva A Hummingbird at Every Crossroads Like the prolific hummingbird pollinator he loves, Vasco Gaspar flitted from singing in a band to studying psychology, happiness, mindfulness, meditation, and more, asking himself, “what is life wanting to live through you?” In meditation, he learned to wait, trusting his heart to alert him when something didn’t feel right such as a choice to give away a book instead of selling ...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - May 24, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires May 24, 2026 "Compassion is the greatest form of love humans have to offer." — Rachel Joy Scott This Week's DailyGood Digest This past week's inspirations reveal the subtle threads of kindness and change weaving through our lives. We explored the profound nature of compassion, reminding us that it is the greatest form of love humans can offer. This sentiment was echoed in the transformative story of a  mother's forgiveness , where the act of forgiving the person responsible for her son's death hea...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - May 24, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires May 24, 2026 "In nature, nothing exists alone." — Rachel Carson Native Plants and a Quiet Revolution in Relating to Land What was once dismissed as weeds is now flying off shelves at plant nurseries across the country, as gardeners rediscover that working with nature rather than against it offers something both practical and profound. At Chicago's Kilbourn Park, over 2,300 people lined up for the annual plant sale -- double the usual attendance -- with native species making up nearly one in five plants sold. "I've watche...

DailyGood: News That Inspires - May 23, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires May 23, 2026 "Transformation literally means going beyond your form." — Wayne Dyer Endangered Butterflies Are Thriving Behind Bars In a greenhouse beside a low security women's prison in Washington state, incarcerated women are raising Taylor's checkerspot butterflies one by one, tracking egg clusters, monitoring larvae through months of growth, and contributing to the recovery of a species that has lost 97 percent of its habitat. For Margaret Taggart, who is serving a three-year sentence, the meticulous work as a Butterfly T...

This week's inspiring video: Lost Sheep Having trouble reading this mail? View it in your browser . Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe   Video of the Week May 21, 2026   Lost Sheep   "Lost Sheep" is a paper, stop motion short film by Lukas Rooney that explores the symbolic struggles that any one of us may go through when we find ourselves feeling less than...