{"id":730,"date":"2010-10-14T08:01:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T08:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2010\/10\/chilean-miners-miscounted.html"},"modified":"2010-10-14T08:01:58","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T08:01:58","slug":"chilean-miners-miscounted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2010\/10\/chilean-miners-miscounted.html","title":{"rendered":"Chilean Miners – Miscounted"},"content":{"rendered":"

“There are actually 34 of us,” Jimmy Sanchez a nineteen-year-old trapped Chilean miner said in his letter forwarded up a tube last Tuesday just before the dramatic rescue a day later, “because God has never left us down here.”<\/p>\n

Trapped for two months in a collapsed copper mine awaiting rescue, several news reports have indicated that what kept the 33 miners hopeful was their faith.  There were regular prayers throughout their ordeal.<\/p>\n

Mini Bibles, crucifixes, little statues of saints, and MP3 players with an audio version of “the Jesus Film” were sent down by various churches and spiritual groups, according to a report in Christianity Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They made a special area for prayers, in addition to separating tiny living spaces deep in the earth.  Two of the miners made confessions and commitments to faith, while trapped.<\/p>\n

Like Sanchez, others felt the presence of God.  Mario Sepulveda, another miner said, “I was with God, and I was with the devil,” Sepulveda, the second man freed from the mine, said upon reaching freedom. “They both fought for me. God won” as reported in the Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We always knew that we would be rescued,” he said. “We never lost faith.” <\/p>\n

I hope those miners know that the whole world was thinking about them, praying for them, and that hope never died. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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