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A Father's Love Phil
Littleford took his son on an Alaskan fishing trip
with two other men.*
In a quest to find some running salmon, they
flew their seaplane into a secluded bay.
The fishing was everything they had dreamed.
When they had finished for the day, their plane
was on dry ground.
The fluctuating tide had left their plane
twenty-three feet from When they awoke.... the tide had come in and their plane was drifting in the water. They cranked the engine and took off. Unknown to them, one of the pontoons had been punctured and was filled with water. The extra weight caused the seaplane to crash within moments. Everyone survived, BUT they had no safety equipment on board. They used their waders as floating devices, but the frigid water was a deadly threat. The current was too strong for Dr. Littleford’s twelve-year-old son to swim against. The other two men fought their way against the tide and barely made it to shore. The two survivors looked back from shore to see Dr. Littleford and his son, Mark, being swept out to sea, arm-in-arm. The Coast Guard reported that they probably lasted no more than an hour in the freezing waters. The hypothermia would chill the body functions and put them to sleep. Mark, with a smaller body mass, would fall asleep first and die in his father’s arms. Dr. Littleford could have made it to shore, BUT that would have meant abandoning his son. He chose to die with his boy! You
and I were lost in the sea of SIN!
Too weak to fight against sin’s
current, Through
His sacrificial death, the Son of God CONTINUES to
reach out to ALL who are drowning in the sea of
SIN. ONLY
those who "GRASP" His
offer of salvation are saved. The
love of the Father is too GREAT to be comprehended,
but too IMPORTANT to be refused! David A. Sargent, Minister
Church of Christ at Creekwood
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