If you care to participate, select one or more subjects from the following list, then tell your inspiring story about it. Otherwise, read about your fellow SC members' accounts.

My mother had a bout with a rare cancer early this year. Her stamina, determination and restraint to "make a big deal of it" was amazing. I went to every last doctor's appointment, radiology treatment and Chemotherapy hook-up with her, everyday.

She was the most inspiring human being, dealing with all her pain and discomfort, but not allowing me (or my sisters) to believe anything but how she would be over and done with it in the six weeks of treatments.

"Me Mo" has always been my inspiration in life. She ROCKS!

i picked the personal illness cuz that's the first thing that sparked a story. i had mononucleosis when i was 9 and it was the sickest i've ever been. i slept for basically two weeks straight, hallucinated for two days, and finally got a shot of steroids from my doc as a last ditch effort to give me enough energy to eat otherwise i would've been shipped to the hospital. it sucked, especially cuz it was over my birthday. and the hallucinating...does anyone remember watching the cartoon thundercats? when i was out of it, i thought i had cheetah skin like the girl thundercat and my mom was wiping me down with a cold cloth and everywhere she wiped the cheetah skin came off. VERY weird. ok, this isn't inspiring at all, but oh well. i'm not sure what i could say that's inspirational cuz i'm not sure who i've inspired.

Well, my brother was close to death several times from drinking, hopped on a bus here, and turned his life around in days, getting a professional job in days after not working for years.

huh, so maybe i really could get rid of this cheetah skin. That's encouraging.

I've got a couple of stories of coming to the aid of someone. He's ok now and I still talk to him sometimes. He was in a car wreck.

I have some experiences I could write, but they don't really fit here

Yeah - I gotchya. Better to wait for a survey that comes right out and asks you to share such an experience.

I used to buy food for a regular homeless guy in town. Not much else I can think of.

My inspiring story and yes! I have donated my time by doing volunteer work and helping to serve Thanksgiving Meals during the Holiday's, and I have put in my time cleaning the Church building where I go to Church on sunday. I go over to the assisted living center and I help out with Turkey Dinners preparing and serving meals it is something that our Church does every year? And I have 3 new yahoo groups to help somebody and talk with other people and to share and to love on one another, for this is the Christian way. My first group is : http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/somebodywhoca... and there are resources here and somebody to talk with Suicide Prevention? And my other groups are:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/womenforgod Transgendered Women and this is open to all Christian and transgendered women to talk write and share with one another and talk about anything? And my other group is: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/heterotransgayfamili... Families For Jesus and this is open to all families? And we must all get along and no throwing stones at one another or killing each other. I have been trying to write about myself and being a transgendered woman, and trying to help out somebody else who may be in transition and showing them things that I have learned along the way, and the safest churches that you can attend on sunday mornings and the ones to avoid and stay away from. The very beginning of transition is the worse and the hardest to go through, because of these religious church people who are ready to stone you and kill you, for being who you are in this life. I want to be there for somebody and it may be you? Who needs some wise and great! advice and people to avoid as well. Jessica Rose

Oh man.. this survey needed an option, "One time, in band camp..."

Once upon a time there was a greenhouse. This greenhouse sat unused for years. One day, someone came along and redrew the property line, and the greenhouse was sitting on it! So another person came along and took the weights off it, in preparation to move it, but they never got back to move it. So, one windy morning, the greenhouse, as if sprouting wings, flew through the air, crashed through a fence, hit a neighboring house, flew through the yard leaving a path of destruction, and landed on a car, as if to say "I'm out of here."

I really don't know if there's a moral to this story.

I knew there was a big under all that ruff and gruff exterior.

Once I gave this homeless man my last 5 bucks in food stamps. He had a sign and did look hungry. Well later that day my dad called saying that he had gotten his dividend check from the land grant and was giving us each $150 bucks. I guess I was paid ten fold.

a donation, i like to donate my time to my friends and family, when ever they need me, either it be something that they are worried about, upset about, or just need a shoulder to cry on, i like to let them know that i'm here for them whenever they need me.

I made a Donation to the "Make-A-WishFoundation" thru points I've earned with a survey..My best friends son was in this program he had cancer he is still in remission.
I've bought groceries for a woman I worked with yrs ago. she was in dire need of food, she didn't ask me to buy her anything...I stoped at the store on the way home from work with her and bought them for her, then when I droped her off at her home, I surprised her with them.
I try to do good deeds for strangers..Open a door, pick-up something they've droped. given someone gas money at the pump.