We were at the lake a couple of weekends ago with our friends, and had just returned to the boat dock and were getting ready to eat. Matthew had taken off his life jacket, and I guess we were all too busy to be thinking clearly about the fact that we were right next to the water and he should probably still have a life jacket on. I don't know what got my attention, but all of a sudden, I noticed Zack was down on his stomach on the dock dragging a drowning Matthew out of the lake!! Matthew had been playing with a rope and backed up just a bit too far, and IN HE WENT! Thankfully, Zack was right there and heard him go in, because it was right next to the boat and Matthew would have been hard to see between the boat and the dock if we didn't know he'd gone in! And when little ones go in, they have a hard time getting their mouth back up above the water to make any noise, so he so easily could have drowned right there next to us, and we wouldn't have known- and now I'm crying again! It's a hard thing to think about. At the time, I was so shaken up, that I started having trouble breathing and my legs gave out. I had to sit down on the dock for a few minutes, and even then it took quite awhile for my legs to stop shaking! I am so thankful for Zack's quick actions, but I'm even more thankful for the angels that God has sent us to protect this wonderful, amazing, trouble-finding child!!!
Meet Matthew...
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
did I ever tell you about the time.....
that this cute little kid fell in the lake? NO? Well, that's probably because I'm still a bit shaken up over the whole thing! Here's the story....
We were at the lake a couple of weekends ago with our friends, and had just returned to the boat dock and were getting ready to eat. Matthew had taken off his life jacket, and I guess we were all too busy to be thinking clearly about the fact that we were right next to the water and he should probably still have a life jacket on. I don't know what got my attention, but all of a sudden, I noticed Zack was down on his stomach on the dock dragging a drowning Matthew out of the lake!! Matthew had been playing with a rope and backed up just a bit too far, and IN HE WENT! Thankfully, Zack was right there and heard him go in, because it was right next to the boat and Matthew would have been hard to see between the boat and the dock if we didn't know he'd gone in! And when little ones go in, they have a hard time getting their mouth back up above the water to make any noise, so he so easily could have drowned right there next to us, and we wouldn't have known- and now I'm crying again! It's a hard thing to think about. At the time, I was so shaken up, that I started having trouble breathing and my legs gave out. I had to sit down on the dock for a few minutes, and even then it took quite awhile for my legs to stop shaking! I am so thankful for Zack's quick actions, but I'm even more thankful for the angels that God has sent us to protect this wonderful, amazing, trouble-finding child!!!
We were at the lake a couple of weekends ago with our friends, and had just returned to the boat dock and were getting ready to eat. Matthew had taken off his life jacket, and I guess we were all too busy to be thinking clearly about the fact that we were right next to the water and he should probably still have a life jacket on. I don't know what got my attention, but all of a sudden, I noticed Zack was down on his stomach on the dock dragging a drowning Matthew out of the lake!! Matthew had been playing with a rope and backed up just a bit too far, and IN HE WENT! Thankfully, Zack was right there and heard him go in, because it was right next to the boat and Matthew would have been hard to see between the boat and the dock if we didn't know he'd gone in! And when little ones go in, they have a hard time getting their mouth back up above the water to make any noise, so he so easily could have drowned right there next to us, and we wouldn't have known- and now I'm crying again! It's a hard thing to think about. At the time, I was so shaken up, that I started having trouble breathing and my legs gave out. I had to sit down on the dock for a few minutes, and even then it took quite awhile for my legs to stop shaking! I am so thankful for Zack's quick actions, but I'm even more thankful for the angels that God has sent us to protect this wonderful, amazing, trouble-finding child!!!
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