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Speaker 1: Hello, friends, Welcome to Story Behind podcast. This is the

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Speaker 1: show for people who love hearing a good story and

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Speaker 1: who believe the world could use more positivity. We're the

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Speaker 1: team behind God Updates and God Too, and we hope

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Speaker 1: these weekly short stories will brighten your day.

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Speaker 2: A dad saves his twelve year old daughter after she's

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Speaker 2: covered by a clap sandhole ridmy MICHAELA. Gordoni, read by

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Speaker 2: Jolly Provost. A family in the Woodlands, Texas, was on

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Speaker 2: Thanksgiving outing when a twelve year old girl fell into

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Speaker 2: a sand hole. She's completely covered in sand, but fortunately

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Speaker 2: her hero was nearby, her father. The dad saved his

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Speaker 2: daughter just in time to keep her breathing. The girl

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Speaker 2: was completely covered in sand, but her dad quickly cleared

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Speaker 2: the sand from around her head, allowing her to breathe. Firefighters,

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Speaker 2: MEDICX and Montgomery County Sheriff Office deputies were directed to

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Speaker 2: sandbar on the west bank of Panther Creek, just south

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Speaker 2: of the po stra and Bridge, where a twelve year

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Speaker 2: old girl on a family outing was trapped after a

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Speaker 2: large hole she was digging in the sand collapse, said

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Speaker 2: the Woodlands Fire Department. When crews arrived, they found the

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Speaker 2: patient with just her face and head, Showing said. The

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Speaker 2: WFD cruise worked quickly to shore up the area and

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Speaker 2: then carefully cleared away the sand to extradite the patient.

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Speaker 2: The girl did not suffer any injuries and was returned

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Speaker 2: to her parents after the rescue. Florida International University Coastal

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Speaker 2: Science Professor Steven P. Weatherman explained how this can happen.

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Speaker 2: When either the sand forming the hole dries out or

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Speaker 2: someone stands near the edge of the hole adding extra weight,

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Speaker 2: the sand hole collapses in and the heavy grains fill

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Speaker 2: all open spaces in the hole. This leaves no air

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Speaker 2: available for a trapped person to breathe. He said, this

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Speaker 2: event draws attention to the importance of sand safety. It's

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Speaker 2: not just ocean beaches that can present these kind of dangers,

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Speaker 2: it's anywhere that they're sand, including rivers and lakes. Thank goodness,

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Speaker 2: this young girl's family was nearby to help her in time.

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Speaker 2: And do not forget to do good and share with others,

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Speaker 2: for with such sacrifices God is pleased. Hebrews thirteen sixteen.

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Speaker 2: Baby girl born in a Missouri BUCkies parking lot after

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Speaker 2: parents can't make it to the hospital in time. Written

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Speaker 2: by Heather Riggomann, read by Julie Provost. The baby girl

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Speaker 2: was born in a Missouri BUCkies parking lot after her

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Speaker 2: parents couldn't make it to the hospital in time. Sometimes

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Speaker 2: babies arrive with soft lullabies and hospital rooms waiting, and

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Speaker 2: sometimes they show up under the glow of gas station

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Speaker 2: lights in the middle of a Chile, Missouri night, as

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Speaker 2: if Heaven itself whispered, now, little one, Now, that's precisely

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Speaker 2: how tiny Elena Birdsong entered the world at three sixteen

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Speaker 2: am on November fourteenth, right from the parking lot of

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Speaker 2: a Bucky's. And goodness, what a story her little life

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Speaker 2: has already written. Nathan and Jenna Birdsong from Marshfield were

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Speaker 2: doing what every couple does when labor finally becomes real,

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Speaker 2: timing contractions, wrapping the hospital bag, breathing through the pain,

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Speaker 2: praying they make it in time. But as every mama knows,

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Speaker 2: some babies come with their own schedule. We were halfway

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Speaker 2: there when we realized we were not going to make it,

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Speaker 2: Jenna shared. So Nathan did what any desperate dad to

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Speaker 2: be would do. He pulled into it the first bright,

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Speaker 2: safe place he knew, that familiar Bucky's sign shining like

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Speaker 2: a beacon in the night. I pulled in, parked, the truck,

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Speaker 2: hopped out, got on her side, Nathan recalled. I was

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Speaker 2: trying to look see if any emergency services were on

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Speaker 2: the way. Picture it. The parking lot humming quietly, the

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Speaker 2: giant beaver mascot smiling down from the sign, and a

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Speaker 2: husband holding his wife's hand as dispatchers from Mercy's Hospital

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Speaker 2: walked them through what was about to happen. And then,

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Speaker 2: in less time than it takes to order a brisket sandwich,

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Speaker 2: Jenna delivered the baby girl right there in the truck.

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Speaker 2: Elena took her first breath, wrapped in courage and adrenaline

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Speaker 2: and the kind of love you can't script. One minute later,

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Speaker 2: Nathan said, with a smile, I saw the Strafford Police

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Speaker 2: Department start coming in the parking lot. The officers arrived,

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Speaker 2: ems arrived. By that time, the bravest couple in the

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Speaker 2: BUCkies parking lot had already done the impossible. And now

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Speaker 2: Jenna is healthy, Baby Elena is perfect, and the Birdsong

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Speaker 2: family has a story that they'll be telling for the

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Speaker 2: rest of their lives, the kind that gets pulled out

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Speaker 2: at every birthday, every graduation, every engagement dinner, do we

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Speaker 2: ever tell you about the night you were born? While sweetheart,

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Speaker 2: a dippy like that? Don't you think sweet Elena deserves

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 2: Because little Lena didn't just arrive quickly. She arrived boldly,

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Speaker 2: joyfully and write out God's perfect timing. And isn't that

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Speaker 2: just like life? Sometimes the holiest moments happen in the

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Speaker 2: most ordinary places. Sometimes miracles show up between gas pumps

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Speaker 2: and neon signs. Sometimes the babies cry echo louder than

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Speaker 2: fear ever could, reminding us that God writes beautiful stories

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Speaker 2: in unexpected places. Welcome to the world, Elena Birdsong. You

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Speaker 2: were worth every wild minute of your unforgettable arrival Psalm

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Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty one eight. The Lord will watch

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Speaker 2: over your coming and going, both now and forevermore.

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