As I described recently, the roaming buffalo and also the playing deer and antelope in Custer State Park in South Dakota inspired us to sing “Home on the Range.” When the song popped into my head more recently, one line made me ponder:
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word . . .
Now there’s a home motto to hang over the mantelpiece or by the front door or simply to scrawl on a scrap of paper and hold tight with a magnet on the refrigerator.
Imagine that you could peek inside these homes and witness that motto lived out.
Cottage in Northern Virginia. Photo courtesy of the Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.Elizabeth Apartment Building in Wheeling, West Virginia. Photo courtesy of the West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.California Cottage. Photo courtesy of the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.Historical interpreter Uncle Bob Beringer stands on the steps of a sharecropper’s cabin on the grounds of the George Ranch Historical Park, a 20,000-acre working ranch in Fort Bend County, Texas. Photo courtesy of the Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith’s America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Cottage in Middlebury, Indiana. Photo courtesy of the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Doesn’t that sound just wonderful?
Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing. 1 Thessalonians 5:11
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I have driven by that apartment building in Wheeling WV many times when I visit my relatives!!!!
I have driven by that apartment building in Wheeling WV many times when I visit my relatives!!!!