A feel-good story: God only knows we need them these days.

Coal dust still on his face.

A coal miner at shift’s end rushes straight to a Kentucky Wildcats basketball game to be with and watch with his son.

This story is gaining traction and well it should. From Louder with Crowder:

The Kentucky Wildcats hosted their annual “blue-white scrimmage” when a father and son caught the eye of Coach John Calipari. The father, a coal miner, sat there with his face still covered in coal dust while his son looked excited to be at the game and with his dad.

The boy’s mom was there as well.

My amazing husband started his day at 4:45 am that morning and worked all day. Then drove straight to the arena to meet us and enjoy the game with our son! We are truly blessed with such an amazing man, and beyond thankful! We love our coal miner.

They are truly blessed, and it gets even better. The Wildcats’s coach happened to see the photo above and wrote as follows on Twitter.

At the risk of going on and on (aw, the hell with it, we’ll take that risk and besides, it’s our blog), your Tatler’s father (yes, he actually had one!), while not a coal miner (he worked on Wall Street), would rise every morning before dawn, eat a rushed breakfast, then walk briskly to the station to catch the morning train on the increasingly dilapidated and unreliable New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad to Grand Central. Thence the express train to the Financial District, where he would work long and, no doubt, often tedious hours until day’s end, at which he would go through the whole process again in reverse.

Despite being exhausted, after dinner Dad would take a good amount of his time to read to his four boys before retiring to bed and doing the whole thing again the next day.

This is, or was, nothing unusual; it’s merely a tale of a father who loved his children and whose happiest moments were being with them, especially, in our case, reading to us. The man in the photo though is no different, save for immaterial circumstances. He simply loves his son, wants to be with him and obviously will stop at nothing to make that happen.

May God bless fathers everywhere.