When we turn on our television or smart phones we are bombarded with news that brings us down. Where are all the good stories? Those stories are still there. Here’s one that we hope will bless you.

Fifteen-year-old Clara Daly’s flight out of Boston was canceled. She and her mom had to run to catch a flight set to take off. Now she thinks she knows why.

Just after takeoff on the Alaska Airlines flight, flight attendants asks passengers if anyone knew sign language. “Clara has been studying American Sign Language so she rang the flight attendant button,” her mom, Jane, posted on Facebook. “They explained that the passenger was not only deaf, but also blind. The only way you can communicate with him was by signing into his hand.” Clara knew how and offered to help.

Clara helped the man several times during the flight, communicating his needs to flight attendants. The crew and passengers snapped away on their cameras. You can see the shots on Jane’s Facebook page. But Clara was not done with her high-flying act of kindness.

“Toward the end of the flight he asked for her again, and this time he just wanted to talk. She spent the remainder of the flight until landing with him. He asked her lots of questions, and she signed-spelled the answers into his hand.”

Proud of My Girl

After the flight, Clara told her mom she knew why they ended up on the earlier flight. “Clara told me that she thought it was meant to be that our original flight was cancelled and we were placed on this flight so that she could be there to help this man.” Jane posted that she was “Proud of my girl.”

Clara is dyslexic, so she began learning sign language because she “saw sign language as a way to communicate without having to read and write,” she told CBS News. Clara said she didn’t do anything extraordinary. “Doing something like that is just like what anyone would have done.”