You can have your doubts, but we KNOW it was a miracle. Jack and Ben were cleaning up trash all around the compound with Caleb and Samuel. This includes burning it so it isn’t blown or carried out again. From inside Devin and I heard BAM! like a gunshot and then Jack screaming OW! and a desperate cry, so we came running. He was red all over and covered with dust/ash. We quickly put him in the shower, knowing something in the burn pile had exploded, but not knowing what. He said he hurt everywhere – his whole front and back of his neck, too. He had some sticky stuff around on his arms. Many people heard the bang and came in – our bathroom has never been so crowded.
And the miracle? Well, the explosion was a metal can of PVC glue. The lid was found 30 feet away at our door. The boys all had the same story – big fireball that went up and around Jack. Caleb was behind Jack by about six feet and down the hill just a bit, but had the burn on the front of his pants just a little. Quickly wiping at the burning feeling, somehow Caleb got a blister on his thumb. Jack was completely unscathed (once he got the ash out of his hair). Unlike the young men in the fiery furnace, he did smell like smoke and glue, but once he calmed down we were all hugely praising and thanking God that the fire just went right up and over him.
Secondary lesson learned – don’t clean up near the fire pit while burning in it. Primary lesson learned – OUR GOD IS AN AWESOME GOD. Of course, we knew that.
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