True Story
Out in Casa Grande Az. the lady whose children this is about, told this story. They lived near the railroad tracks, and the children would play on them, she looked out the window and saw a train coming from over a mile away, she went outside and yelled at the kids to get off the track, the train came through there around 70 miles per hour. Both boys immediately started across the tracks to come home, but the youngest one, got his foot caught when a track closed on it, the brother stopped to help him. The Mother saw something was wrong and began running towards them, when it became obvious the train would get there long before she did, she dropped to her knees, held her hands out and began praying in earnest. Almost at the last second, the older boy dove off the tracks, and into the tall grass at the bottom of the hill the tracks were on, he righted himself and looked back, the train had passed and his brother was gone, he rose up on his knees in prayer, and tears flooded his eyes, when he heard from just a little ways behind him and to his left, the brother say, "we gotta go back and get my shoe!" he spun around in disbelief as the brother got up and dusted himself off. " When did you jump?" he asked incredulously "right behind you, I pulled my foot out of the shoe though" he replied.
The Mother was still on her knees giving thanks for getting both of her sons back alive, she had been unable to take her eyes off them, and saw them both jump in time! The two boys walked back to the tracks, but didn't retrieve the shoe, it had been cut into several pieces.
One of the aftermath's of this was that the boys who were almost always fighting over something, very rarely fought anymore, the older brother being willing now to almost always give the more to his younger brother, so a new peace reigns in their household. She had told this story just a day or so after it's happening at a prayer group, but in Spanish or the Mexican language. I knew whatever the story was had to be really intense, just from the way she told it, and when I mentioned this to one of the other members, he told me what had happened so we all rejoiced with her great blessing! He wrote me for several years after I came back to SD and told me of the change in the boys.
Eccl. 28:22 Many hve fallen by the eddge of the sword, but not as many as have perished by their own tongue.