1 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:09,000 Speaker 1: Hello, friends, Welcome to Story Behind podcast. This is the 2 00:00:09,039 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: show for people who love hearing a good story and 3 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 1: who believe the world could use more positivity. We're the 4 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:18,919 Speaker 1: team behind God Updates and God Too, and we hope 5 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:22,480 Speaker 1: these weekly short stories will brighten your day. 6 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 2: A fire broke out, So a UPS driver in caring 7 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:31,400 Speaker 2: neighbors rush to save one hundred and one year old woman. 8 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:35,520 Speaker 2: Written by Heather Rigaman Red Budley Provost. A fire broke 9 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 2: out in Santa Ana, California. So a UPS driver and 10 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 2: caring neighbors rush to save one hundred and one year 11 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 2: old woman from her home. Neighbors stepped in to help 12 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 2: the woman and reached out to a UPS driver for 13 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:48,000 Speaker 2: more help. They together saved the older woman's life. Sometimes 14 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,200 Speaker 2: we imagine God's protection as something dramatic, angels with wings, 15 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:55,319 Speaker 2: miracles that split the sky open, loud rescues that leave 16 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 2: no doubt. But more often God keeps us safe in quieter, 17 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 2: holier ways. He placed watchful eyes in neighboring windows. He 18 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 2: stations steady hands behind steering wheels and lunch counters. He 19 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 2: moves people into the right place at the exact right time. 20 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 2: Like neighbors who notice smoke, teachers who don't look away, 21 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 2: and drivers who pause their route and step in because 22 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:18,080 Speaker 2: something isn't right. God uses those around us as his shelter. 23 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 2: Rick Edwards, her son didn't even know the neighbors who 24 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 2: saved his mother's life. They could barely see her when 25 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 2: they opened the door. There was so much smoke, he said. 26 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 2: The neighbors had run to her condo after seeing the smoke. 27 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:31,680 Speaker 2: They pounded on the door and used a fire extinguisher 28 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:34,120 Speaker 2: and a garden hose to help put out the fire. 29 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 2: They then called in the ups driver for help, and 30 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:38,480 Speaker 2: he was able to get the woman out of the 31 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:41,479 Speaker 2: house into safety. When danger comes, it's often a human 32 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 2: voice that calls her help, a stranger who runs toward 33 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:46,800 Speaker 2: the fire, a calm presence that stays when fear wants 34 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 2: to scatter. Those aren't accidents and assignments, divine nudges woven 35 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 2: into ordinary lives. Scripture tells us that God is our 36 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 2: refuge in our strength, but so often that refuge arrives 37 00:01:56,520 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 2: wearing familiar faces. It looks like community, It sounds like 38 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 2: someone saying I've got you. It feels like being carried 39 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:05,559 Speaker 2: when your legs won't move fast. Enough. We are watched 40 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:08,080 Speaker 2: over in ways we don't always see, protected by prayers 41 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 2: we didn't know. We're being prayed, guarded by people who 42 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 2: didn't realize they be the answer until the moment asked 43 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 2: them to be. And maybe that's the reminder we needed today. 44 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:20,680 Speaker 2: We are not as alone as fear tells us we are. 45 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 2: God is near, and he proves it by how he 46 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 2: uses us for one another. Because safety in God's hands 47 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:29,640 Speaker 2: often looks like love showing up right on time. Watch 48 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 2: this incredible video and be reminded how God uses the 49 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 2: ordinary to make an extraordinary difference. He survived the night 50 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,200 Speaker 2: with prayers after getting lost on a hike, clinging to 51 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 2: Jesus and his faith, written by MICHAELA. Gurdhonny read by 52 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 2: Juley Provost. With no way out of a steeper vine 53 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 2: in the wilderness, a sixty seven year old hiker turned 54 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 2: to the one thing he could be sure of, God, 55 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:03,079 Speaker 2: So he turned to praying while lost on the hike. 56 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 2: It was nearly twelve hours before a forty person search 57 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,680 Speaker 2: and rescue team found him. He was hiking on Mount 58 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 2: Tappalabas in Marin County, California, when he fell into a 59 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 2: ravine I'm just happy to be back home with my 60 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 2: wife and family and friends, said the hiker, Grant Gunderson, 61 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 2: an investor from Granite Bay, California. I feel like God 62 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:22,920 Speaker 2: has blessed me with a second chance to make a 63 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 2: difference for him in this life. He left work early 64 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:27,520 Speaker 2: in the early afternoon and got to the mountain area. 65 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,400 Speaker 2: Grant had been on the Cataract trail there over twenty 66 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:33,680 Speaker 2: times before, but this time he decided to go on 67 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:37,120 Speaker 2: a steeper trail he'd hiked once before. At five point forty, 68 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:39,320 Speaker 2: he texted his wife to tell her his phone was dying. 69 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 2: After descending the trail, he reached an unfamiliar body of 70 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 2: water became disoriented. This point, it was just being God, 71 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 2: nature and animals in the park, he said. While trying 72 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 2: to find his way, he slipped due to a recent 73 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 2: rainfall that made the groundsaf I slipped and lost traction 74 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 2: and suddenly found myself careening quickly down a steep ravine, 75 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:59,440 Speaker 2: pete first in a sitting position, said Grant. He quickly 76 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 2: shouted Jesus help and save me as he rolled and 77 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 2: flipped headfirst into the dark ravine. He came to a 78 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 2: stop with his head facing downhill, he saw two boulders 79 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 2: next to a creek bed below. I knew that if 80 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 2: my fall had not stopped, my head would have hid it, 81 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 2: causing me a possible concussion or even death. 82 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 1: He says. 83 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 2: I was never afraid because I knew that God was 84 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 2: going to help me get rescued from the ravine. He said, 85 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:21,720 Speaker 2: sooner or later there would be a search party looking 86 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 2: for me. He walked to the water and saw a 87 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 2: drone's light overhead, but it didn't see him. He stumbled 88 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 2: along for a while before taking a break on a log. 89 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:31,479 Speaker 2: He sat there for almost forty minutes. Then he saw 90 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 2: three headlights on a trail near the lake. Help. I'm 91 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 2: Grant and I've fallen. I'm over here, he called out. 92 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 2: His worried wife had been the one who called in 93 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 2: multiple agencies for help. It was just after two a m. 94 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 2: When they found Grant, who had only minor injuries and 95 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 2: was a little dehydrated. The Fine My app on Grant's 96 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:48,480 Speaker 2: phone had helped the agencies to look at him. He 97 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:50,600 Speaker 2: was able to walk back to the trailhead with assistance 98 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 2: from the search team, said Muren County Search and Rescue. 99 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:56,160 Speaker 2: He was then transported by a deputy back to his vehicle. 100 00:04:56,839 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 2: The first thing Grant asked for was responder should tell 101 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:01,600 Speaker 2: his wife that he was I was so glad to 102 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:03,599 Speaker 2: drive home and hog and see my wife, says Brand. 103 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 2: His advice for other hikers is to always have a 104 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 2: charged cell phone with a tracking app, and never give 105 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 2: up and never panic. 106 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,520 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening to Story Behind podcast. 107 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 1: We're really glad you joined us for this week's story. 108 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 1: To see photos and videos that may have been referenced 109 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 1: in this episode, check out the links and the show notes, 110 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: and if you enjoyed what you heard today, subscribe to 111 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 1: our podcast and please tell a friend about us. 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