Not all heroes wear capes – and sometimes, they’re only 7 years old.
Just ask Meghan Drye, the mother of Micah, a little boy who wanted to be a superhero for Halloween, but was tragically swept away by floods that struck Asheville, North Carolina, last week.
The floodwater rose high enough that Drye and her son, along with her parents, had to climb to the roof of their home for safety. However, the flood became so powerful that it broke the home apart.
At that moment, Drye said her son called for Jesus to save him.
“He reached for something past flesh, past human, past anything that even grown adults, I think, would reach for,” she said. “My son called out to the one God Almighty. And I think at that moment he was rescued, and he became my hero, and I think all of them carried me through that moment.”
All four were sent downstream, with Micah being torn away from his mother.
Drye spent three hours in the water, becoming entangled by roots and trees. She said she held on to the vegetation, but something greater told her to let go.
“In the midst of the chaos, all I heard was God telling me to be still and to stop fighting the water,” Drye recalled. “That was Him, that was prayers. That was prayers that told me to be still and to let the water carry me to where I needed to be rescued.”
“When I did let go, I heard the voice say, ‘You still don’t fight the water’ and then I ended up in between the two carriers that stuck with me the whole time,” she said.
She was then spotted by a man and then tended to by a rescue team.
Micah’s body was recovered about a quarter-mile away from where Drye was rescued. Drye’s parents also didn’t survive the flood.
“My grief today is unfathomable. I’m sorrowful. I feel broken,” Drye said. “But what is the main thing that I take away from grief is the uplifting of all the prayers that I have received.”
Remnants from Hurricane Helene drenched the state of North Carolina last week, dropping nearly 30 inches in some spots – or about 4-months-worth of rain – in only three days.