phil.

that is incredible!  i agree.  it would be neat to talk to that boy now to
see what he recalls.  i bet he still remembers.

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-----Original Message-----
From: The Electronic Church [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of Phil Scovell
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 11:00 PM
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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.