This blog is about the Chilean miners who bravely managed to
survive in the collapsed mine for 65 days. Although this is an old storyline
(as this happened around September 2010) I believe it to be one of the most
memorable and inspiring. The miners survived from the support of the people-
their families, friends, the rescue teams and in fact the media. Living only
from the supplies being fed down the two bored holes these miners were finally
rescued by a drilled shaft big enough the fit their specially designed
“elevator” which bought the miners to their long awaited freedom. As they
ascended the light ‘beamed down’ a blinding light as they came to meet hundreds
of press, families re-uniting and millions astonished with what seemed as a
miracle.
This story reminded me much of how Jesus healed a blind man at
Bethsaida by spitting on his eyes and how these men were concealed in darkness-
as if ‘blind’, then as if a miracle freed and on the surface, re-united. It
also reminded me of how Jesus survived 40 days and 40 nights enduring mindless
temptations and starving hours- and how he drowned this all out and kept his
sanity.
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