This is a couple from my church.... Autistic child found safe at Gatlinburg resort: "Corey Martinez walked away from his family at the Westgate Resort in Gatlinburg as his parents were packing up the car to go home. His parents and about a dozen others who got together for a family reunion searched for a while before calling for him. Dozens of people showed up to search by foot. Some brought blood hounds. The Knox County Sheriff's Department brought one of its helicopters. Adding to the challenge, young corey martinez is autistic and doesn't speak. "You call his name and he doesn't answer you so we were scared trying to find him," says his mother, Angel Martinez. Dozens of search teams scattered across the resort and beyond. Someone found Corey about 30 feet up a tree with no shoes on. He was only a few hundred yards from where his parents last saw him. "It is just so riveting, so exciting," says Corey's father, Michael Martinez. "We had a prayer vigil. All the churches praying we could contact and we just believed that God sent his angels to protect us." When he got back to the resort one of the first things Corey did was eat a bar-b-que sandwich. One of the volunteers who searched for the boy says endings like this is what they live for. "It's something that we love," says Jo DuBose who brought a team of search dogs. "We're an all volunteer unit so for us to come and have an ending like this makes all the training and all the hard time worth it." The Martinez family is from Indiana. They come to the resort every year and they say all of them will be back." http://www.wbir.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=19262 Thank God for miracles!
Thats sad but kind of humorous. He was found up a tree with no shoes on. Can the child not talk or does he just refuse to? I knew an autistic child.. Theyre usually really nice.. Then the smallest thing will set them off
I think you guys are tottaly missing the point of this thread. yes, it is a miracle! too many things could have happened and didn't!!! He was perfectly safe and that is more then can be said for all the other children that go missing. Thank-God that the little boy was brought home to his parents!!!!YAY
that's good that his parents found him, but a miracle... doesn't sound very divine to me, more like, "oh good, he didn't run away after all, just climbed up a tree and didn't come when we called."
So most six year olds climb thirty feet up in a tree? Not to mention the fact that he held onto that tree until he was found. Don't forget that he was in a heavily wooded area of the Smokey mountains.
which part is miraculous? it's called having a particularily rough day. the only thing really surprising would be that he climbed pretty high but i doubt that's the point of your story. if you look at it logically, it goes: kid climbs tree, parents can't find kid, time elapses, parents find kid still in tree. it's a happy ending, but not wonderworking. man, i'm sorry if i'm getting rude.... it's late here and i'm tired. g'night guys.
The fact that a lot of missing children are not found. The fact that he did not fall out of the tree....
Yeah, maybe I'm an ass, but I certainly don't see that as a "miracle." I mean, it's not like the kid was lost for days and thought to be dead or anything. It just turns out that the kid was fine... that's no miracle. Now, if he would have climbed the tree as an autistic child and come down perfectly healthy, THAT would have been a miracle... something great that cannot be explained.
Quote "Someone found Corey about 30 feet up a tree with no shoes on." No $#!+ Sherlock. I've never seen a tree with shoes on either.
I replied to this and the whole thing about it being a "miracle" in the thread linked below. But everyone keep in mind that I posted this in my Christian forum, so it's heavily religiously related. I'm not asking for debates about religion or anything, I just thought those that posted in THIS thread might be interested on my take on miracles. http://www.hipforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=280610&postcount=4 (Hint: I agree that the kid in the tree was not a miracle.)
Man that made me laugh. I agree this isnt a miracle. I use to climb trees that high in my pre school. I hate how the news writes things to make them seem more spectacular when no one should really care. Its not even news worthy.
mir·a·cle n. An event that appears inexplicable by the laws of nature and so is held to be supernatural in origin or an act of God
or an act of God you people have been tainted this world has jaded you to the little things, and little miracles an infinite amount of things could have wrong gone with a child that could not speak, may have a limited understanding, and is probably overprotected in that situation the act of God wasn't that he climbed the tree or that he didn't wander far the act of God was the upteen things that DIDN'T happen ya'll are gonna piss God off if you keep disregarding his blessings
well if that's your thinking, then pretty much everything that happens is a miracle. i think you're getting the idea of "act of god" and "miracle" mixed up. what you mean to say is that people are blind to god's actions in the world, not blind to the miracles. i mean, with your logic i could also say it's a miracle i made it home tonight since i walked home alone like usual and any number of possible awful things could have, theoretically, happened to me. "the act of God was the upteen things that DIDN'T happen" - granted, but would you call it a miracle? are all acts of god miracles? if you believe in god, which i don't, you likely will say that all of life is an act of god. if so, we need a new word for those staggering, unexplainable things most people consider miraculous.
it was a miracle that i made it to the end of this thread...j/k Actually it was a very nice story and i enjoyed it miracle or not.
if you are thanking god for keeping him in the tree, would you be cursing god if he hadda been thrown outta the tree?
