How Bad Do You Want To Live ?
Luk 18:18 And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
Luk 18:19 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God.
Luk 18:20 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor thy father and thy mother.
Luk 18:21 And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up.
Luk 18:22 Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
Luk 18:23 And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich.
Luk 18:24 And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
Rom 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
• His surgery was (May 5, 2003) at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado and his harrowing story was carried in newspapers and on television around the world since this 27-year-old didn’t show up for work in his hometown of Aspen on Tuesday morning. It’s not the kind of celebrity anyone would willingly choose, to be sure.
• For this seasoned expert, it was only supposed to be a daylong adventure in the extreme sport of "canyoneering" that combines hiking and climbing up then down rugged, remote terrain, using rock climbing gear to negotiate narrow canyons. After solo winter expeditions to the summit of 49 of the 54 peaks in Colorado that are 14,000 feet and above since December 1998, a few hours hiking around Blue John Canyon in southeastern Utah’s Canyonlands National Park seemed like a walk in the dark. But something went badly wrong this time for Aron Ralston.
• as the scrappy mountain climber moved through a three-foot-wide ’slot canyon,’ he pushed his arm into a crack in the canyon wall and a 1000-pound slab of sandstone suddenly shifted and broke loose, crushing his right hand and forearm and pinning him in a horrifying, excruciating prison. He tried to use his ropes and anchors to free himself, but couldn’t budge the massive boulder. Day turned to night and hours turned to days as Aron - who had narrowly escaped death in an avalanche in February - was forced to wait for the help that was unlikely to arrive. By Tuesday morning he had completely exhausted his water supply, and by Thursday morning - after five agonizing days of forced standing in the unforgiving elements of the remote Utah wilderness - he realized that drastic measures would have to be taken if he was going to survive.
• Aron Ralston had only two choices as the sun rose over Blue John Canyon last Thursday morning: He could die with his arm trapped beneath a 1000-pound boulder, alone in the desert, or he could amputate his right arm with his own pocketknife.
• Utah park ranger Steve Swanke was in awe: "I’ve never seen anybody who has [such a] will to live and is as much of a warrior as Aron is, and I’ve been doing this for 25 years."
• Because of his strong desire to live, Ralston was somehow able to tie a tourniquet to his right arm, and then painstakingly do the unthinkable - crudely sever the crushed limb just below the elbow with his own knife. Once the grim task was done, he found a way to set up his climbing ropes and hooks, then rappelled 60 feet straight down a rock wall to the canyon floor, where he began the arduous trek back out to his vehicle.
• That’s where rescuers found him late Thursday afternoon, bloody and dehydrated, staggering along a stream. What was left of his right arm was still wrapped in the tourniquet, and he was only two miles from his car; he had walked seven miles with his wound. His was quickly airlifted out of the canyon by the rescue helicopter to St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction, where the veteran climber is still listed in serious condition.
• Authorities and medical experts say that if Ralston had not cut off his arm to free himself, he would have surely died from either dehydration, exposure, or the effects of his limb being crushed. But were such drastic measures really necessary? Yes, we know he would have eventually died from his injuries, but what if he had just postponed his tough decision? Wouldn’t someone have found him if he had just waited?
Utah rescue helicopter pilot, Terry Mercer, says if Ralston had not made the decision to cut off his own arm, he would never have survived. He told ABC news, "Where [Aron] was pinned, we went back in there and looked at the spot he was pinned and it was such a narrow canyon and the overlap was so bad that we could fly right directly over the top of it we would have never seen him down there."
• ’’He reached a point when he knew he could die with an arm, or live [without one],’’ said Mike Hill, a spokesman for Canyonlands National Park, "To have the mental fortitude to do [what he did] is incredible."
• Aron Ralston, like few others, could quite literally explain what Jesus meant when He made this graphic, gruesome statement:
Psa 146:2 While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
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Psa 27:1 A Psalm of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Psa 27:2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
Psa 27:3 Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
Psa 27:4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.
Psa 27:5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
Psa 27:6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.
Psa 27:7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
Psa 27:8 When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
Psa 30:4 Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
Psa 30:5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
