Phil, Now that is totally sweet and Loving.

Thanks much.

Jesus Lives! He Reigns Forever!
Lovingly,
Patricia Ferguson


At 09:59 PM 8/8/2007, you wrote:
>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.