Life-giving love

Search and rescue efforts have turned more into recovery missions in China since the devastating earthquake there last week. People cling to dwindling hopes of finding new survivors. Stories of late and unexpected rescues keep that hope alive.

Here’s one, an amazing one. My colleague Helen Hitchcock received it in an email from a friend:

A co-worker’s from China and so has been in contact with other Chinese in regards the horrible earthquake there last week.

A friend sent her a story in Chinese; I’ll para-phrase:

The relief workers were searching through rubble and found a woman in a “cat position”, on her hands and knees, say for instance you are washing the floor.  The workers approached and saw that she wasn’t breathing and walked off.  The director of the group sensed something and went back.  He looked under the woman and a baby boy, a couple months old, was wrapped in a comforter under her, alive, with no injuries.  Inside the comforter was a cell phone.  The mother had texted the baby, “baby if you survive to read this, know I love you always, mommy.”