The Cokeville Miracle Page #5

You okay'!

Did wc wake you'!

Good.

There's something else

I wam r0 talk to you about.

Jasc, was mm anyxhing clsc

that maybe you didn't ml] us'!

Anything at all'!

It would really help your dad

if you could think of something.

- Yeah, I know something clsc.

Li ghtbulbs.

Right before the bomb went off',

lots of angels came down

through the ceiling.

They looked like lightbulbs.

- Lightbulbs.

You mean like this'!

- Uh-uh.

Likc that,

There was an angel

for everybody'

They were holding hands

in a circle around the bomb.

Then when the bomb happened,

they went fast up into the ceiling.

- This guy had police training.

He knew what he was doing

with that bomb,

but it didn't work

like it was designed.

It shouldwe gone out,

but instead it went straight up

through the ceiling.

- Why don't you go on upsnairs,

okay, honey?

I'l1 be there in a minute.

There is no way

Jason coulnfve known that.

- There's something else that I learned

that happened that day.

- [chuckles]

- Do you think this is funny'!

Do you think this is a game'!

Go ahead and try it again.

We'll see who wins this game.

- You want m talk miracles'!

Fl] tell you a miracle.

- Try it, big man!

Tr)' in!

- Thar mc and every other officcr

just happened to be

out of town that day,

because I know

that if 1 would've been there,

I would've stormed into that room

with so much hatred for that man.

I probably xvollldHze gotten myself

and everyone else killed.

But without me

and the other cops,

there was a chance

for it to g0 another way.

- Hey, he doesn't understand.

He's jusx a little kid.

Hey.

- Let's say a prayer.

Pass it on.

- Let's say a prayer.

Pass it on.

- Let's say a prayer.

- Lot's say a prayer.

- Allyson, you say it.

- Why mo'?

- Because you're

the smartest in the class.

- Dear God,

we need Your help today,

especially if the bomb goes 01f

- Most every child prayed

sometime during the crisis...

Not because

somebody told them 10.'.

But because they wanted to.

And they weren't the only ones.

[Phone blaring]

- Plcasc, God, please.

- They won't allow us to be

on the elementary school grounds,

but we can do SOmCthing right hero.

I may get fired for doing this,

but if anyone wants to,

please join mc in praycr.

- The cntirc high school got together

and knelt in prayer.

Praying for their

little brothers and sisters,

their moms and their dads.

Prayers for their safety were going on,

not just throughout the town.

12-4 w base!

Nadcnc, you got to talk to mo!

But as the news spread,

throughout the whole country.

- The man and his wife have herded

the entire student burly

into one classroom.

They arc demanding a ransom,

and we understand that that ransom

is $2 million for each child held'

The nearest hospital

is in Montpelier, Idaho,

which is about 30 miles away.

That hospital and others arc gearing up

for what could be a disaster

of epic proportions.

- Maybe cvcn the world.

[man speaking Spanish on TV]

Dear God.

- Even then you couldn't bring

yourself to pray?

. [sniffiei]

It'd ncvcr worked before.

Why should it then'?

- Hey.

It's all right, sweetheart.

- We pray that we will all be safe

and that cvcryonc will live.

We pray in J esus's name.

Amen,

all:

Amen.

- I gm to get um of here for a minute.

- But if you ask mo,

the most amazing thing.

Is that even though these kids

and these teachers

xere terrorized for two hours

by a raving lunatic...

So many of them turned

and went back into that room to...

make sure that everybody was out.

They went into a room

that was on fir:

that they could barely breathe in,

with a madman and his guns

and cartridges

exploding everywhere,

trying w help othcvs.

- [sobbing]

- You're gonna be okay.

Come on.

- [coughing]

Is there anyone still in here'?

- Me.

- [gasps]

Cindy.

Oh,

Out the window.

Go, g0.

Ben'!?

- And one of them that was saved

a1 the end was our Cindy.

- I got her.

I got her.

- Take her!

- I gather.

' Cmdy, run!

Go! Go! Go!

- [sobbing]

Oh, my babies.

Oh, my goodness.

- Where's Daddy'!

- Ron, it's all right in from of you.

- I sec it.

But I don't

[sighs]

Hop out, bud.

- I'm staying with Dad.

- Well, I'm not staying.

I'm going in,

[car door opens]

[indistinct chatter]

- We'll meet you right here

after class, okay?

- Be good.

- Bye, bud.

Hi. Hey.

Hi.

What'!

- I shouldn't bc hero.

I thought I could do this for Jase,

but I can't.

Fve got so much hatred

for those people,

and I know they're dead,

and I'm glad they're dead.

- Ron, I love you.

You're thc greatest man I know",

but I will not raise our children

seeing you like this.

You had bettex figure out

what's real in [his world

and what's not,

or you could lose us.

- Hey, come on, you guys.

Lefls g0 to class'

- It's only natural that our faith

is tested when bad things happen,

to ask ourselves, if God is in control,

thcn why didn't Hc slop this'!

Why did He let those people

enter the school'?

Why did He let any

of our innocent ones get hurt?

And not just the children

and xhose in room 4'

We've all been wounded

because those

we love the most have been hurt.

And because we're human,

it's only natural

that we have feelings of hatred

towards those that did this,

but hatred toward them

is a dcad-endjourney.

Hatred inwards them

is like drinking a poison

and hoping it will kill your enemies.

It doesn't work,

What will work, what will save us

from a lifetime of hatred and loathing

is the same thing that saved

our children in that room...

Prayer.

We've all wimessed the miracle

ofhow prayer can save lives'

Now let's let it heal our hearts.

[children Singing indistinctly

in xhe distance]

All:
u Pray He Ls there u

u Speak u

n He ix listening u

n You are Hi:
child u

n His love n

n NOW surrounds M n

n He hears your prayers n

u He loves the children :

H Ofsucrh is the kingdom H

n The ldngdvm of Heaven n

u Heavenly Father :

n m m really thaw? n

n And do You hear and ansmv-er

every chifdkpngver? I

u Some say (hm Heaven is far away 1

u But 1 feel it cluxe around me

ax I pray

n Heavenilm' F either, I remember now n

- Dear God, please forgive me.

A:
u Something that Jesus

mid his disciples long ago a

n Sufler the children m came w me n

: Father, in prayer

I'm coming now to Thee I I

- I'm so sorry.

Can you forgive mo'?

Let's g0 find your mom, okay'!

Come on.

All." u Father, in prayer

I'm coming now ta Thee u

[music swells]

Nu

- We knew that a miracle

had happened,

and there was a spirit

about the town.

We loved each other.

It was a gift, and we knew it.

- We know that there are people

on the other side who care.

We know we're not alone.

We know.

- I know I'm here for a reason,

and it's my children and my husband.

And I was saved that day

to be a mother to them

and to teach them

that not everyone

in this world is good,

but that we can forgive

and that we can move on.

- Doris Young told us that...

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