Inspirational Videos

One cute, furry, four-legged creature could not contain her excitement when spotting her owners after being separated from them for several weeks.

Several animals are mentioned in Genesis, as God was creating day, night, the oceans and man. Animals are special beings who are all members of God’s creation. As such, he bestowed upon them a certain level of intelligence – much higher than most of the population would like to admit. 

A clip posted on YouTube shows how one animal, a Siberian husky named Ashley, instantly recognized her owners despite being away from them for weeks. The dog was unable to withhold her joy at seeing her owners, jumping and pawing incessantly at the glass barrier separating them.

The video mentions that Ashley became lost and separated after the animal walked out a door that had been left open by someone tasked with watching Ashley. To make matters worse, Ashley’s owners could not track her movements or locations. The Siberian husky had not been microchipped.

Understandably, after weeks apart and without a way to electronically track her, Ashley’s owners began to lose hope. They started to believe that reuniting with their beloved pooch was not in the cards. 

But then something unexpected happened. 

Ashley had been picked up and thought to be a stray, taken to an animal shelter nearly 250 miles from her home. The clip points out that “an advocate for lost and found dogs” spotted what they believed to be Ashley’s photo and contacted her owners. The next day, Ashley’s owners made the trek to the animal shelter and discovered that it was, in fact, their lost beloved four-legged friend.

The video shows the moment Ashley first spotted her owners. She is lying on the ground, but when she sees her owner, Ashley's demeanor changes. The animal runs up to the glass and desperately tries to find a way to get out from behind the piece of glass that separates her from the owners.

Proverbs 12:10 “An upright man has thought for the life of his beast, but the hearts of evildoers are cruel.”

One mother is warning other parents about the danger of magnets in refillable water balloons after her 8-year-old girl was rushed to the hospital screaming in pain.

Parents hope for and desire nothing more than for their children to enjoy a safe, happy and carefree childhood. Whenever that is not the case, whether it be due to a disease, an illness or some other reason, parents can be left feeling distraught and hopeless. Unfortunately, one mother in Ohio experienced that feeling of helplessness, and she’s now warning other parents.

In a clip posted on YouTube, Kelley Whitty recalls the traumatizing and scary situation that resulted in her 8-year-old daughter, Leah, having to be sedated at the hospital. Medical professionals then worked to remove six magnets from the child’s nose.

Kelley states that the situation began innocently enough after Leah had finished enjoying time in the pool at a friend’s house. 

“I got a call from the friend’s mom, and she was like, ‘Hey, we were all in the pool.’ Leah got out, grabbed a towel, wiped her face and just started screaming,’” Kelley said.

No one was sure what was happening with the child. Leah mentioned she was experiencing “burning and stinging in her nose.” Unsure of what was happening, Kelley took her daughter to the hospital for help.

At first, those medical professionals were baffled as well. But as they continued working, they spotted something shiny in the youngster’s nose. The child had six magnets in her nostrils – four on one side and two on the other. The magnets had “bonded in each side of her nose,” Kelley said.

“Nobody ever wants to see their children hurt or in pain,” Kelley said. “And then the fact that I kind of sit back in the corner of the room and watch these doctors and nurses lay on top of her and try to remove these. I kind of had to comfort her from a distance. That was really hard.”

A doctor in the clip stated that if someone were to swallow multiple magnets, they could potentially try and bond and may damage tissues or intestines. 

Proverbs 22:6 “If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old, he will not be turned away from it.”

Animals living in deplorable conditions were rescued, received the necessary medical treatment, rehabilitated and then released back into their natural habitat or placed in animal sanctuaries.

Animals are members of God’s creation. They were placed on Earth by the same God who created man and also hung the sun, moon and stars in place. As such, they deserve love, care, kindness and respect.

A clip posted on YouTube shows some of the best, but also some of the worst behavior of human beings. The video shows people rescuing animals that had been mistreated and endured some horrendous conditions. After rescuing the animals, different groups of people helped to nurse them back to health and later released them into the wild.

The clip begins in 2016 with the rescue of two orangutans. The video mentions the two animals were “living in deplorable conditions.” So, over the course of five years, the two orangutans were rehabilitated in what is called “forest school.” 

They were then released back into the Asian forest. 

The next story the clip mentions is that of Martha, a 17-year-old brown bear. The bear, up until it was rescued, had spent its entire 17-year existence in captivity. In addition to being kept in small, confined spaces, the bear was also not “fed well.”

Martha, after her rescue, was taken to a veterinarian, where the animal was thoroughly examined. The bear was transported to an animal sanctuary where other bears were currently residing. 

The clip ends with the story of a nearly 30-year-old chimpanzee, Vanilla. Vanilla had spent its entire life locked up in a testing lab. But in June 2023, the animal finally took its first steps outside.

The look on the animal’s face, as it gazes up into the sky and gets its first glance at the sun, is moving and priceless.

Genesis 1:21 “And God created great whales, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.”

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One of the biggest names in all of entertainment, Ed Sheeran, unexpectedly showed up at a wedding ceremony and serenaded the happy couple, singing and playing one of his newest songs. 

Weddings are lovely, often emotional ceremonies. They are instances when lifelong commitments and precious memories are made. The photos and videos captured on that day will only become more and more special as the years go by. One couple who decided to tie the knot in Las Vegas, Nevada, will remember their special day for one very different and “magical” reason. 

In a video posted on Instagram, Ed Sheeran was a last-minute and unexpected arrival at a couple’s wedding ceremony in Sin City. The couple was at the altar, in the middle of their ceremony, when the doors to “A Little White Chapel” opened. 

No one in the room was expecting Ed Sheeran to enter!

The camera catches the utterly surprised and baffled reactions of the bride and groom as they turn and look, only to see Ed Sheeran singing and carrying an acoustic guitar walk through the doors. The tune he’s singing is apparently called “Magical, ” a song off his upcoming album, according to Billboard. 

Ed and his background singers serenade the couple, who look on in complete shock and amazement. The entire room gives Ed and his fellow singers a well-deserved round of applause for their surprise performance. 

The “Shape of You” singer then hugs the bride and groom. But Ed’s beautiful serenade wasn’t the end of his involvement in their wedding ceremony.

Following the song, the couple said their “I dos,” and walked down the aisle. The groom asks, “We can still get pictures with him, right?” However, before the clip ends, it shows Ed signing their wedding license as a witness. 

That was a once-in-a-lifetime type of moment that neither the bride nor groom will forget for the rest of their lives. 

Genesis 2:24 “For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.”

The son of the late Steve Irwin, Robert Irwin, while following in his father’s footsteps, rescued a snake from a zoo’s vending machine.

Animals are unique creatures placed on earth by the same God who hung the sun, moon and stars in place. Because of that, all animals are deserving of kindness. However, gentleness and respect are best given to some creatures from a safe distance. 

For most of the population, snakes are best viewed and observed from a few hundred yards away and behind a sturdy barrier. But for others, like Robert Irwin, snakes are not bothersome in the slightest, as a video posted on TikTok indicates. 

In the short, one-minute-and-a-half clip, Robert, while driving, explains the situation, which has him headed to the zoo to deal with a unique problem.

“OK, so I just got a call,” Robert says. “We’ve actually got a carpet python, a big snake, stuck in a vending machine at the zoo. This is, this is a first.”

The clip then quickly cuts to Robert walking into the facility and standing in front of the vending machine, where he spots the slithery creature, who has gotten itself in an odd predicament. 

He then grabs the camera and gives viewers an up-close look at the snake, resting comfortably behind several bottles of Coca-Cola. How awful would that be? You think you’re buying a Coke, but a snake jumps out instead! 

Robert doesn’t complete this rescue on his own. A second gentleman unlocks and opens the Coke machine, allowing Robert to remove one of the panels behind a row of Cokes. The son of Steve Irwin then slowly and gently places his hand into the machine and withdraws the snake, removing it from the vending machine.

“So that is how you get a carpet python out of a vending machine,” Robert Irwin states.

Hopefully, snakes in vending machines are one situation most people can avoid. Whatever happened to just “have a Coke and a smile?”

Proverbs 12:10 “An upright man has thought for the life of his beast, but the hearts of evildoers are cruel.”

An entire family showed off their moves and fancy footwork at a young woman’s wedding reception during the traditional father-daughter dance.

Weddings and all the festivities surrounding the ceremony are instances when precious, cherished moments are created. From the bride walking down the aisle, to exchanging vows and the throwing of the bouquet, there are dozens of opportunities to create special memories.

As a video posted on YouTube shows, a family used a traditional dance at a wedding reception to create a memory that no one, especially the bride and her family, will ever forget. Typically, the dance between the bride and her father is to a slow, sappy song that holds a special meaning to them. But one family turned that dance on its head. 

Instead of a slow song about “daddy’s little girl,” the bride and her father strutted their stuff in front of friends and family to Bobby Darin’s classic, “Mack the Knife.” It’s clear very early on that both the bride and her father have skills when it comes to the dance floor. 

They swing and sway back and forth effortlessly, displaying their coordination and sure-footedness. Those attendees standing around watching love it. There are several very audible shouts and cheers from the onlookers. 

But about 30 seconds into the clip, dad gets pushed aside as one young man walks onto the dance floor, indicating he is taking over for now. The father-daughter dance has now turned into a sibling dance routine. The bride’s brother also moves about the dance floor with confidence and grace, wowing the people witnessing the sight before them. 

Then around the 1:10-minute mark, a second guy comes along and literally shoves his brother off the dance floor. A second brother of the bride shows that smooth, impressive dance moves seemingly run in their family. 

But don’t fear. The clip ends much like it began. Dad enters the dance floor later in the clip, finishing the dance with his now-married daughter. 

Psalm 30:11 “You have turned for me my mourning into dancing: you have put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;”

A young man from Canada thrilled and amazed spectators with his astounding ice skating routine, showing off his immense level of talent on the frozen, slippery surface while skating to Benjamin Clementine’s song, “Nemesis.”

Ice skaters are a special kind of athlete. Yes, to reach, remain and compete at the highest level requires loads of skill, intense focus, commitment and thousands of hours practicing on the ice. But ice skaters must also possess a fair amount of charisma and flair. Skaters have to know how to captivate and play to an audience. 

In a clip posted on YouTube, Vlad Tchernov put on a dazzling skating routine during the 2023 American Contemporary Skating Festival Showcase. The young man effortlessly moves around on the ice. Early in the routine, the young man ceases skating. Instead, he glides about the ice with such grace and athleticism that it’s more of a dance number. 

Additionally, the choreography and the moves Vlad performs as part of his routine were entirely designed by him, according to the video’s description. 

Once his routine comes to an end, the spectators let the young man know how they felt about his efforts. They explode with a thunderous round of applause and cheers. 

Many who commented on Vlad’s awe-inspiring and mesmerizing routine mentioned how much they loved it.

“Smooth as butter! Loved his musical expression & those nice deep edges! Bravo, young man!” one person posted.

“This is one of the most innovative and inspiring and excellent performances I have seen! Wow! Thank you so much for posting,” a second individual added.

“Vlad is outstanding, I truly lost myself for 4 minutes! TY for your unique photography, & uploads! Kudos to you & Vlad,” someone else wrote.  

“Fabulous! I loved his creative choreography! Very unusual indeed. Thanks,” another YouTuber user commented. 

1 Corinthians 9:24 “Do you not see that in a running competition, all take part, but only one gets the reward? So, let your minds be fixed on the reward.”