TRAPPED & ALONE
In 1989, in the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake comes the heart-touching story of Buck Alvin Helms. Helms is a fifty-seven-year-old, two hundred and forty pound longshoreman, who friends describe as a cantankerous man with a booming voice. Helms was trapped for eighty-nine hours in the driver’s seat of his Chevy. He was underneath a ceiling of the collapsed Nimitz Freeway, which had become a tomb for many others. After being found his first question was, “When am I going to get out of here?” Put yourself in his shoes. What would you have thought of in this situation for 89 hours? He later shared his thinking as he was trapped as, “Does anyone know what happened to me? Does anyone care? How long will I be here? Is my situation totally hidden from others?” Many of us can relate to similar thoughts. We at times ask God the same question. The nation of Israel asked similar questions in Isaiah…
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