Sometimes, kindness can come from the most unlikely places.
For Angela McElhiney, the mother of a son who committed suicide in October, her Christmas miracle came from the collective efforts of Reddit users. One of Angela's last remaining tokens of her son, Nathan, was a YouTube video of him singing the song "Wayfaring Stranger" in his high school gymnasium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkiwwb88AAs"It's about someone going, basically, to heaven," she said.
However, due to the video's poor audio quality, with the sounds of people shuffling/coughing in the background, Angela decided to post it on Reddit and ask if anyone knew of a way to fix it.
"It was such a bad recording and I just wanted to be able to hear him better," she said. "Right now, I feel like it's very therapeutic because I feel like it's the journey he's taking."
And that's when the true spirit of Christmas unfolded before her eyes as her inbox was quickly flooded with countless messages of condolence and offers from audio engineers to fix the sound in the video:
