Phil, I'd not seen this before, thank you for sending it again.


Lelia 
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From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 8:59 PM
Subject: Deer Jesus


> Check the spelling I used in the subject.
> 
> Sharon's story about the little boy and the deer reminded me of a
> miracle I have also told on here before.  I'm going to tell it
> again.  When Sandy and I and our first child moved to western
> Colorado to work in a small church of about 60 people in a small
> town of about 800 people, a pastor I met in another near by town
> told me this true story.  In this part of Colorado is a 10,000
> foot mesa, or flat top mountain.  It has hundreds of lakes on it
> and it is a widely enjoyed fishing area of the state as well as
> camping.  The mosquitoes are unbelievably thick too.  There are
> many small mountain towns all around this mesa.  Grand Junction,
> Colorado is on the northwest side of this mountain called Grand
> Mesa.  We lived in a small town on the opposite side of the
> mountain from Grand Junction.  A bunch of the small town churches
> got together and fathers and their sons all went camping on the
> mesa for a couple of days.  A man in one of the churches took his
> three year old little boy.  Somehow, I believe it was on that
> first night, the little boy walked off and couldn't be found. 
> They looked until dark and the next morning, authorities were
> notified in Grand Junction and search and rescue teams came up on
> the mesa and began hunting for the little boy.  It has been many
> years ago now so I can't recall for sure but I believe he was lost
> for at least the first night and possibly two.  One of the men
> from the church pushed his way through the thick brush because he
> thought he could see a clearing on the other side.  Just as he
> pushed through into the clearing, he spotted the little boy.  A
> deer was quickly scampering away and disappeared into the brush on
> the other side of the small clearing.  The man ran up to the
> little boy and picked him up.  With the few tiny words he knew at
> that age, he kept telling the man that the deer had stayed with
> him all night.  The story soon spread throughout the churches all
> around Grand Mesa.  This was nearly 30 years ago.  I would love to
> talk to that little boy, now a man, today to see what he recalled but
> it was clear to everybody there that the deer had indeed stayed
> with the little boy, keeping him from straying off throughout the
> night, and taking care of him.
> 
> Phil.
> 
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