Sing Into Your Storm

At the peak of this fresh grief we were experiencing, we felt so sad, before we knew it Christmas Eve arrived. We didn’t even want to go to our relative’s house that year (as was the custom of our family). We just wanted to be alone. I had picked up the mail that day and was thumbing through it when I discovered a packet that had been mailed to us by my Sister-In-Law. Curiously I opened the packet, not knowing what it was (I had completely forgotten about the pictures she had taken that day, back in the summer time). It was a photography envelope with all the pictures and the negative’s that she had taken the day we were up at the cemetery the day I buried my daughter. At first it was very troubling to me, as I was already in a lot of pain – and this was like a fresh reminder of the most difficult day in our lives. Nevertheless, I started to thumb through the pictures and as I was near to the end of the small stack, I suddenly saw a picture that astonished me! It was so different from all of the other pictures! Every picture taken that day was in brilliant Kodak quality, just like you would see on a postcard, having been taken outdoors in the bright June sunlight with a quality camera.

I thought that this one picture might have been some double exposure or something so I pulled out the negatives…

I was shocked to discover that this one picture was right in the middle of the negative slide – while it had perfectly clear (normal pictures) both above this one picture and also right below it as well!

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