• Holding On

  Contributed by Sean Harder on Mar 18, 2010 (message contributor)

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HOLDING ON

Let me share a story from Chuck Swindoll.

"Four guys decided to go mountain climbing one weekend. In the middle of the climb, one fella slipped over a cliff, dropped about 60 feet and landed with a thud on the ledge below. The other three hoping to rescue him yelled, 'Joe, are you OK?'

'I’m alive, but I think I broke both my arms!'

'We’ll toss a rope down to you and pull you up. Just lie still,' said the three.

'Fine,' Joe answered.

A couple of minutes after dropping the rope, they started tugging and grunting together, working feverishly to pull their wounded companion to safety. When they had him about three quarters of the way up, they suddenly remembered he said he had broken both arms.

'Joe, if you broke your arms, how in the world are you holding on?'

Joe responded, 'With my teeeeeeeth.'"