Vol. 4 Issue 21: A helping hand goes a lot farther than a harsh word...

All too often, our news, social media feeds, and even our conversations with friends and family are centered around content that brings us down. It can be so difficult to believe good things still happen every day when the overarching things we read and hear are full of discouragement.

That’s why we started this goodnewsletter, Real Positive Vibes (RPV). We've curated good news to share with you, a haven of amazing goodness in the lives of every day people. While you peruse RPV, may you be relaxed, refreshed, and renewed. May you be encouraged and inspired to have hope, shine your light, and do good works.

Sending you real positive vibes,

Chaplain Michelle

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You don't know their story...

We can all use some help from time to time. Even under the best circumstance, we all can face challenges and need a hand up to face the day. This week I want to share this video with you. It perfectly illustrates how important it is to be kind to those around us and lend a helping hand when we can.

No matter how someone might look on the outside or from your perspective, don't assume that you know what is happening in someone's life. We all deal with the challenges in our lives differently but the most hurtful thing someone else can do is judge our circumstances without full context.

So instead, I want you to offer a non-judgmental helping hand to someone. Sometimes it is easier to help someone when we feel superior to them or determined the details that we know of their life make them worthy of help. But in the end, we all need help, and we shouldn't have to bare our souls or be judged deserving to get it.

Let's apply the golden rule, and all help outwhen we can, no questions asked or strings attached.

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Twin Paramedics Whose Dad Died of Cardiac Arrest Saved a Man Suffering Same Condition the First Time Working Together - Good News Network

Paramedic twins whose dad died of a cardiac arrest 21 years ago saved a man suffering the same condition—in a tag-team effort, only a day after the anniversary of his death.

Angie Mills and her brother Steve Mills were only working together by chance during a rare joint shift as part of the same ambulance crew when they resuscitated the patient, whose heart had stopped beating for five minutes.

Glass beads on moon’s surface may hold billions of tonnes of water, scientists say | The moon | The Guardian

Tiny glass beads strewn across the moon’s surface contain potentially billions of tonnes of water that could be extracted and used by astronauts on future lunar missions, researchers say.

The discovery is thought to be one of the most important breakthroughs yet for space agencies that have set their sights on building bases on the moon, as it means there could be a highly accessible source of not only water but also hydrogen and oxygen.

World Happiness Report: The world's happiest countries for 2023 | CNN

There’s cause for optimism in the latest report on world happiness. For one, benevolence is about 25% higher than it was pre-pandemic.

“Benevolence to others, especially the helping of strangers, which went up dramatically in 2021, stayed high in 2022,” John Helliwell, one of the authors of the World Happiness Report, said in an interview with CNN.

And global happiness has not taken a hit in the three years of the Covid-19 pandemic. Life evaluations from 2020 to 2022 have been “remarkably resilient,” the report says, with global averages basically in line with the three years preceding the pandemic.

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