We need a miracle right now...

Those were the words of the Governor of West Virginia in reference to the 13 miners that trapped in one of the mines. The only thing I know about coal mines is what I've seen in the movie "A Coalminers Daughter" . I just didn't grow up in or around coal mining communities. But something that Yoss said really hit me today.. He and his friends grew up near the community where the miners are trapped. I don't know why it bothered me when Yoss said it, but it was like it almost became personal at that point. It wasn't just some place in West Virginia, it's a place where families live, it's a place where kids play and go to school and crack on each other like Chairborne, Yoss and Jonnycakes do all the time.
The cameras are focused on a white wooden church where people have gathered to pray and wait. They wait for news that they pray will never come. The news that their loved ones are gone. The weather there seems to reflect the saddness everyone feels. It is gray, rainy and cold. Hope is surely fading.
My prayer tonight is that God will comfort those families as only He can. My heart breaks for that entire community. They do in fact need a miracle. I hope they get it....