Emphasis Preaching Journal

Ten-year-old Taylor Touchstone survived four days alone in the waters of Turtle Swamp, Florida, swimming and floating without food or shelter, until he was rescued by a fisherman some 14 miles from where he disappeared. So dangerous is the swamp, which is used by the U.S. Army for jungle training, that four recruits had disappeared and died the previous year. But what perhaps saved Taylor is the fact that he is autistic, and may have fixated so completely on one detail, that he managed to block out fear and hunger, and consequently did not panic.