appreciation, gratitude, miracles, recuer, rescue, reunion

An Emotional Reunion as a Man Meets His Rescuer 50 Years Later

In the summer of 1973, a 17-year-old teen was saved from the jaws of death. Loren Oelkers was swimming in the murky waters of Montana’s Canyon’s Ferry Lake on the 4th of July when things went wrong. Two strangers rescued him and saved his life that day, but unfortunately, Loren never thanked them for this ...

Nathan Machoka

Loren Oelkers (left) and Rick Goff.

The Reunion of a Prime Minister and His Ragged Wife

Bai Lixi, the prime minister of the significant state of Qin during China’s Warring States period, was very poor in his youth. Despite this, he was knowledgeable and extremely well-liked. He eventually married and had a son. However, living conditions were so dire for this family that his wife suggested he seek a new life as a civil servant ...

Max Lu

Military gate at Jianmen Pass.

A Broken Mirror Joined Together Again

The Chinese idiom, “a broken mirror joined together again,” expresses the idea of a couple being reconciled or reunited after a period of separation. It has its origins in a story about Princess Lechang of the Southern Chen Dynasty and her husband, the scholar and poet Xu Deyan. In the last years of the Northern ...

Helen London

Princess Lechang.