I write this brief blog post with some trepidation.

A dramatic story is still playing itself out on the other side of the world. Eight boys remain trapped in a cave in northern Thailand, along with their soccer coach.

Rescuers have pulled four of the boys out. Thai navy SEALs and other rescue experts are suspending their rescue effort overnight to replenish their SCUBA tanks and to get back into the cave network to finish the job of rescuing these young men.

The world has been riveted by the drama and also by its thirst and hunger for some good news to cheer. We’ve been beleaguered and besieged by bad news of late. The world remains fearful on multiple fronts.

Then they found these Thai boys and their coach alive in the cave. We want the rescuers to succeed.

May they catch their breath and then plunge once again into the beast to save those boys, to return them to their families — and to give the world reason to cheer out loud.