It is not often I include photos of people on this site. Indeed, I have to spend a lot of time dodging around them to get photos of lodge rooms clear of them, but I include the above because it was a very happy moment.

People have all sorts of misconceptions about Freemasonry, but our ladies and our children came to see the Korumburra lodge room with us. Trying to get a clear photograph of the Master's chair proved tough, and while waiting I snapped the above three smiling faces while I listed to Spanish being spoken behind me by one of my brothers, and Filipino being spoken by others (thanks for the lift to that brother's wife!) but above I see Asian and Mediterranean smiles on the children of my brothers.

One of the things I love about Freemasonry is how it unites diverse people. Those that think Freemasonry is a group of old white Protestants are truly mistaken. Freemasonry embraces people of diverse faiths and spiritual traditions, the fathers of the above have brothers who are Christians, Jewish, Buddhist, and Muslim - and it will shock those who are ignorant of Freemasonry and stereo-type it that the majority of Christians in this visiting lodge are Catholics. That two of the daughters of our members giggled together as they played on the Master's Chair can do nothing but warm the good Freemason's heart.