Celebrate the Joy and Warmth of Family Love
I told you recently about our dear friend who performed a random act of kindness by fixing something on my computer. What he did was to color correct some photos I took during the trip Ray and I took to Canada in 2017 with him and his wife. Somehow I set my camera for underwater without knowing it and was very disappointed when I returned home and found hundreds of photos with a pink tint! I keep finding things to share with you from those photos. I hope you don’t mind.
During the stop in Nova Scotia, we visited the Miners Museum on Cape Breton Island.
Ray in particular was deeply moved by this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience being in a place where men and boys have worked so hard and suffered so much.
At the museum that day we learned that a men’s chorus was there to practice. We went into the practice room and sat for a long time, soaking in their beautiful blended male voices. It was wonderful. They are the Men of the Deeps, billed as North America’s Only Coal Miners Chorus. I listen to their Christmas CD every year. I love the song about Daddy coming home from the mines for Christmas—”I still see Daddy walking home with coal dust on the snow . . . ” How it celebrates the joy and warmth of family love.
Don’t forget to celebrate the joy and warmth of your own family’s love every day.
Beloved, let’s love one another;
for love is from God,
and everyone who loves
has been born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:7
But encourage one another every day,
as long as it is still called “today” . . .
Hebrews 3:13