Posted on 04/13/2010 10:13:40 PM PDT by Between the Lines
WINTER SPRINGS, Fla. — James King said it was an act of God that led him to find Nadia Bloom in a thick swamp early today.
“God directed me to her,” King said hours after finding the 11-year-girl alive.
A day earlier, the 44-year-old University of Central Florida alum was part of a volunteer search crew that had been unable to find Nadia.
But at first light today, King, a military contractor, entered the woods armed with two cell phones, his shoes taped to his feet and some food and water to give Nadia if she was found. He prayed, quoted Scripture and looked to God to direct him to Nadia.
Then he called her name repeatedly as he ambled through the woods.
“I knew the Lord wanted me to go back in as soon as it was daylight,” King said. “I needed him to direct my path. I asked him, would he guide my path?”
The path led him to the middle of the swampy area between state roads 434 and 417 and the girl's gated subdivision, Barrington Estates.
“I said, ‘Nadia!' and she answered, ‘What?”' said King, recalling a moment about 8:30 a.m.
The missing 11-year-old was sitting calmly on top of a log. She didn't appear to be injured but was “polka-dotted” by bug bites, he said.
He scooped her up gingerly, praised God and then called 911 from the phone he knew was equipped with GPS.
King fed Nadia trail mix — she was disappointed it didn't have M&Ms — and she munched on an apple as they waited for rescue crews to arrive. They talked and prayed while they waited, King said.
(Excerpt) Read more at heraldnet.com ...
It's not as bad as it sounds unless you forget to bring a mosquito net and a gallon of deet. In fact, right now it is downright pretty and while the no-see-ums are just starting the skeeters aren't that bad yet and the deer flies which are the WORST aren't out yet either.
Someday you may find that GOD will get into the smallest part of our lives, if we would let him!
I love what his wife says about him, I pray the same can be said of me.
“This is James King. He is who he is. He’s got great faith. He’s an instrument used by God.”
“I live in an alligator / eastern diamondback / skito / tick / redneck infested swamp.
It’s not as bad as it sounds unless you forget to bring a mosquito net and a gallon of deet. In fact, right now it is downright pretty and while the no-see-ums are just starting the skeeters aren’t that bad yet and the deer flies which are the WORST aren’t out yet either. “
ROFLMAO - only a Southerner would write that and this Southerner clearly understood every blessed word! ha ha
“Thank goodness she was found alive and safe. But if this is true, it almost makes you not want to get involved for fear of the third degree treatment.”
No different now than in the days of the Good Samaritan.
It sickens me that this guy is a suspect. My sickness is misdirected, though. It is our immoral society that actually sickens me. We are so jaded that a hero automatically is a perp. It is the first thought of many of us. I do not blame those of us that had the thought. I blame our sick culture that made the thought “normal and expected”.
This man’s story does not pass a smell test ...
<><><><><<
Too funny and a crying shame at the same time ...
On GMA this morning, George Stephonopolous (sp?) gave the guy as much time as he wanted to sing the praises of God, and how He alone is responsible for helping him find the girl. A rare sight indeed on network tv.
And here we are, doubting the guy.
God Bless the Rational Ones, when they come to the forefront on FreeRepublic!
Your words give me hope there is still a chance for sanity!
There indeed is a chance for sanity in our Nation; I have a master plan. However, my plan does not belong here, but rather on a CWII thread. It involves B.I.T.S. and B.L.O.A.T.
Thank you. Blessings to yourself as well.
Amen and Hallelujah to that.
I agree on needing him now, but am of Good cheer and strangely calm and ready to see what comes next.
Remember- We fight not against flesh and blood but powers and principalities.
Larger things are afoot than what we see.
And I know how it all turns out.
God Bless you and yours, and peace be upon you.
Well then, the Lord wouldn’t have been glorified nationally and proclaimed would he have been?
Or, it could have been a couple of other things.
In any case, I’m pretty certain he had his reasons. Always does.
Maybe its just to get you and I discussing him right now.
:-)
If this is true, then Praise God!
If this guy is lying, then I am beyond ticked (RF rules).
Well, I believe the James King version.
I can hear the gnashing of teeth in this thread.
God bless you and your family as well.
No it doesn’t pass the smell. The 911 call is creepy...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.