Today's Oprah Winfrey Show featured stories of survival after tragedy. Melanie and Bud Billings were raising 16 children when they were brutally murdered in their own home.
Now their adult daughter Ashley and her husband are living in the Billing's home where they are raising Melanie and Bud's nine adopted children. Each of the children have severe disabilities and Ashley spends her days caring for her siblings.
Christian and Stephanie Nielson are the parents of four children. After undergoing a plane crash that killed the pilot, both Christian and Stephanie received serious burns but although they face extreme daily challenges the couple are just happy to be alive.
An Oprah viewer named Andrea from California who feels her life is tough spent the day with Stephanie as she goes about her daily chores and quickly realized that she needs to appreciate all that she has going for her.
Stephanie Nielson has become an inspiration to many women and has her own blog called Nienie Dialogues. You can actually write to Stephanie, her mailing address is posted on her blog.
Today's Oprah Show also featured the amazing story of a fateful airplane flight. When two strangers met on a small commuter airplane, passenger Rick soon found out that the girl beside him was in foster care and heading to a shelter. Rick and his wife Annette ended up adopting Christina. You can find out more about the special encounter of Rick and Christina here on Oprah.com.
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