Miracle at Sea

Typically, there is not a world of good news to report on this forum, but last night I heard some that I will gladly relate. Not since the miracle on the Hudson has such good fortune been herein conveyed. Three men disappeared off Texas eight days back on a journey in a tiny catamaran. After about a day, the search shifted from a rescue effort to recovery, as exposure, hypothermia, drowning, death by shark became the inevitable outcome. But hope flickered in the hearts of kin, not yet ready to consign their fates to the sea. And prayers this time were rewarded when like something out of a Hemingway story, battered and somewhat worse for wear-the three wayward sailors were returned alive from one hundred eighty miles off the coast where they had clung to their upturned twin-hulled boat with hope in their hearts and prayer on their lips and returned from the brink of death-unbowed and unbroken. Thanks be to He on high who still hears the prayer and summons the rescue.