I don’t usually write about news stories on this site. There is so much sadness and heartache in the news, I just like to keep things light and fun around here. But I can not stop thinking about this ongoing saga.
When I first heard about the CNET editor and his family gone missing, I had weird pangs of familiarity. They are a family a lot like my own, I guess. A young couple with two kids, faces on the web, visiting family for the holidays. I don’t know what it was about them - really - but I just felt worried for them. Like I would be if I this was a story about a long lost friend. The pictures around the web made them seem so normal…an indication that tragedy can strike anyone, I guess.
Then I read that the wife and kids had been found.
At the time they were rescued, they had been out there for nine days. Her husband left them two days prior to try to find help. They had all been there, together, trying to survive for seven days. A young couple and their two daughters: 4 years and 7 months. The search is on to find the Dad now that the wife and kids have been brought home. I feel an ache inside of me wanting them to find this man, feeling a sickness in my stomach as I wonder what I would feel like if that was MrZ out there, and they were flying me and my kids to safety. I just can not imagine the agony as the minutes ticked by.
And then, as I read the article, I got to this part:
And my heart broke. I just can not imagine. I am still nursing my daughter and knowing that nursing her would be her sustenance until help came along…knowing that it was literally my body keeping her alive. This mother also had to encourage her four-year old to nurse too, just to sustain her in the cold. Wondering if it brought comfort to them in the cold. Were they scared? Those small children…did they know their parents were worried?
I just can’t stop agonizing for this family. For the pain they’ve already suffered. I can’t help but find myself praying to whatever gods will listen that this man, this father, that he be found and brought to his family so that they can be together again. I don’t know why I feel so much more invested in this story than the dozens of other tragedies gracing our newspapers every day, but I do. And I just felt like putting their story here too. So that so many of you who have prayed for my family in their time of need, maybe you can do the same for this family, for this father lost in the cold.
I too have been worried all day. I don’t know why this particular story strikes such a chord with me. I just keep thinking of that poor father out there in the cold and his family, finally safe and warm, still worrying about him.
I hope they can hear and feel all our prayers. It’s Christmas miracle time.
Wow. I had no idea about this story as I literally never turn on the news unless there is something major going on. This is so sad! I just watched a show “I shouldn’t be alive” on the weekend on the discovery channel where a couple was lost for many days and they made it. I can’t imagine the mom’s fear trying to keep her 2 babies alive while her husband is out there somewhere. I am so sad for them and I truly hope he is found alive and well, soon!
I found out about this story because Mr Lee works as a Senior Editor for Cnet.com and they posted information that they were missing several days ago on their web site.
Since I have often seen his videos on Cnet when researching cell phones I couldn’t help but follow the story.
I hope they find him soon. He’s a very smart person and hopefully has dug himself in somewhere to keep warm.
Me too. I don’t claim any kind of organized doctrine in my faith, but I’m sending my whole heart out into the universe that this husband, this daddy will come home to his kids.
And what a tough mom. And smart.
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beautiful post, zoot. brought tears to my eyes.
Oh, I just read about it- hopefully they will find him. They seem to think they will very soon. I think it’s normal, too, Miss Zoot, to have such feelings come up… I mean, it’s the holidays. We want everyone to be happy like we are…
It’s 10:45 a.m. on Wednesday morning — everyone here in Oregon is just a mess over this. I’m glad you wrote about it, Zoot. Teams are out there searching again today, but the terrain is horrible — sheer, rocky cliffs, thick forest. And it gets dark so early. I can’t stop from thinking about it. It is everyone’s worse nightmare.
They dropped provisions at several spots, hoping Mr. Kim will come across them. He seems to have been leaving a trail — shredded map, some clothing items. And they’re trying to get a cell tower up, too, in case he has a phone that is working. I am so amazed by the mom and her two girls. They are in good health and just fine.
Please keep sending good thoughts to the Kim family and the searchers, too.