Good News

Lately, it seems there has been a bunch of gloomy news to report. As I was about to go into the control room to direct the 6pm newscast, I took one final look at the wires.

What I saw uplifted me.

The father and his three children who vanished on a Christmas tree-cutting trip in the Northern California mountains were found alive Wednesday after huddling in a culvert for warmth during three days of heavy snowstorms.

This is a story that could have gone the other way real easy.

The family could have died of hypothermia. It was also reported that the father and mother were divorced. I immediately thought that this could be some kind of scheme of the father to kidnap his kids.

I'm so thankful that I'm wrong! It turns out the father has custody of the kids and takes his kids to church every Sunday. In fact, it was after a church outing that they went to search for their Christmas tree. It was also reported that the father said that his kids "were his life."

It's refreshing to read about a father putting his kids first when we usually have to report the opposite.

To be honest, it's marvelous to see this story have a happy ending.