Posted on 11/20/2023 10:37:16 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
A week or so before Maike Hohnen took the fishing trip that would change his life, he drove past a building site and spotted a sign that read “Free”. Nearby, on a patch of grass, were a hundred or so plastic buckets. Instinctively, Hohnen pulled over, grabbed eight or nine of them, and threw them in the back of his pick-up truck. “When I got home I put a couple in my boat,” he says. “I thought to myself, these will come in handy one day.”
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What an ordeal! Thank God (literally) that the little boy was fine!
Reminds me of the Reader’s Digest Drama in Real Life stories.
As a father who has been in dangerous situations with my son and survived, it brings tears and prayers of gratitude.
Note to self: make sure the battery is fully charged and the bilge pump works.
Did he lose any guns?
Never understood the allure fishing has on some men. I guess whatever floats your boat...
I was not happy with my mechanics the next day. Of course, I drove back to get a drain plug from one of our boats on display. My girlfriend's son thought it was funny that the boat was sinking. Looking back, it was funny...in the eyes of an 8 year old.
Being out in nature, away from everyone else, getting exercise, enjoying the diversity of nature, relaxing for a change, and catching your own meal instead of buying old fish all wrapped up in cellophane at the store.
Heck of a lot better than sitting home watching the booby tube or texting on the phone for hours on end.
They didn’t bother putting on life jackets, since it would have been too uncomfortable to sleep
21 Celsius = 69 Fahrenheit. Pretty cold.
As the coast guard explained to them later in the story, that actually saved their lives.
There are life jackets which inflate on demand.
The author should have pointed out their stupidity, then?
There’s really no subsititute for reading the story before criticizing.
It is mere speculation that lack of life vests actually saved them. There is no way of knowing that. It’s along the lines of, “If you had been wearing a seat belt you would have been trapped in that burning car.”
My point is that it is idiotic and the very height of irresponsible hubris to cruise out to sea in a small boat and not put a life jacket on a child.
Are you saying that their decision not to put a life jacket on a seven-year-old nine miles out at sea was divinely inspired?
Yes, I am.
“With great irresponsibility comes great power”
So, you still haven’t read the coast guard’s opinion? Okay. You know better than the guy on the scene.
God answered his prayers.
With loving and supportive parents, children are very resilient and the incidents that keep their parents awake at night, thinking of what “could” have happened, are often forgotten quickly by children. However, it depends on how secure children are in their home life. This father was always there for his son and the child counted on that fact.
There is an analogy here in the fact that believers in Christ are secure in the fact that they know that God will provide. Just as this child was secure in the knowledge that his father would do everything necessary to save him from harm and make sure they were rescued.
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