This young, blond Finnish-American, adopted and kinda wild, told me his life story the other day at a local burger place. He was out logging, Finns loving the forest, but all by himself to save money. This was two years ago. Out of cell-phone range, using his buzz saw, a tree fell on him, he was pinned down, and he had to amputate his own leg with the buzz saw, then tie a tourniquet, then crawl to his vehicle to get help in phone range by dialing 911.
Btw, using his story does not mean he agrees with (or even knows of) my political and racial views. I did tell him I had a blogsite and his guardian-angels story was something I would love to publish, and he was okay with that. It was his birthday, btw, and I bought him one drink, and he bought me one too because we hit it off, I listened with empathy to his whole, rocky life experience, and did not laugh off his angel encounter. “I guess God has some purpose for you,” I said at the end, and he smiled.
As he lay there, pinned down, and revving his chain saw to cut his own leg off, he heard two men behind him, discussing him. One said: “Do you want to go on to Judgment — or do you want to live?”
He kept turning around to see these two mysterious guys out in the woods, but no matter how he twisted his neck he could only see his own leg.
“I want to live!”
So he did.
A feisty young soul, as I sat there in this burger place, he then challenged some other guy to a fight over “looking at his girl,” and left the bar, taking his shirt off. 😉
Our angels (the Vikings called them fulgyas) know us like the back of our hand; they are former humans; you cannot b-s them; and they can get gruff with the young souls who seem to never, ever learn. 😉
“So it was two male voices?” I asked.
“Oh yeah, it was two guys.” 🙂
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Why do these encounters keep happening to me? Because I am creating an authentic new religion.
And I saw with this guy that his NDE had not straightened his life out, just opened him up to something higher, a more moral and better world. People like him with the childhood from hell need a structure, a group, to join, where he can be guided to a new life of non-self-destruction, surrounded by friends who have overcome themselves the great challenges that life flings at us.
Like having to cut off your own leg.
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Why didn’t he cut the tree he was under???
If he could’a, I’m sure he would’a. 😉
Yeah – if the tree trunk was laying on his leg, it should have been in reach of the chainsaw. From the two photos, it looks like his leg was amputated well below the knee. I can’t imagine a situation where his lower leg would have been in reach, but not the tree trunk that was laying on it. He could have bent at the knee to get even closer to the tree trunk. Story doesn’t make sense. Maybe he lost his lower leg in a motorcycle accident or something, and is a just a congenital liar and storyteller. I had a friend once who was like that – he would make up the wildest BS stories just for the fun of it, and swear that he was telling the truth, smiling all the while. He enjoyed seeing if you would believe him. This story sounds suspiciously like that rock climber who had a boulder pin his leg or arm (can’t recall which), and had to amputate it.
Hard to know…. but even a liar is not eager to cut his own leg off to have a great story to tell. 😉
Possibly the tree was just massive, and he could not sit up and use his upper body in such a way that he could cut up a huge, thick tree. And remember, a heavy-duty chain saw weighs up to 20 pounds: “Small electric models can weigh as little as 6 lbs. whereas some of the larger gas products can weigh up to 20 lbs.” Now, this guy is a professional logger, not some weekend retired old guy out there in his backyard. Holding a heavy buzz saw at a weird angle may not have been possible for him for more than one or two minutes. Also, he may have been struck in the head by a branch, or had other injuries to his upper body. Who knows?
Maybe he also feared dying of exposure out in the woods. If his clothes were soaked with sweat and then the temp. drops to 35 degrees by 4 am, he is in trouble just from that. I cut a lawn three days ago at a rare 91 degrees, then the temp. dropped in 15 minutes to 65, a 26-degree drop (not atypical for the UP of Michigan), and with strong winds. I was pretty cold, soaked in perspiration and blasted by that wind, and speed-walked home to stay warm. Eight hours of exposure to cold would have been a real problem.(Jesus eventually would have died of exposure on the cross, btw. In dry-air countries, the temp. can drop a huge amount at night, from 100 degrees to 40.)
Anyway, I never got to question this fellow further. As likable as he was, and as much as we hit it off, he got up fast and was gone, maybe off to some appointment.
What I did notice was that he had gray hair in his goatee at just 31. (His face looks like a man in his thirties.) I have no doubt he has been through a lot.
….and also that his guardian angels were gruff for a reason. 😉
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I did a blog article a while back about a man who had a truly heart-rending tragedy in his life (a car wreck caused by another motorist where his wife and baby died, he was left crippled and in a wheelchair, and just one child, a son, escaped completely unscathed). The angels and/or God/Jesus/Someone gave him a very loving reception.
He got to see his dead wife and hold his dead baby, both very alive in the other world, and he experienced a beautiful feeling of overwhelming cosmic love, all of which strengthened him for his life now as a wheelchair-bound father and widower.
We all get what is coming to us, and if you genuinely try hard, your angels see that. You do not have to be perfect to feel divine love, mercy and support. Those who scoff at Christianity or its eastern cousin, Buddhism, do not understand that many people have such horrid lives that feeling love, compassion and forgiveness from a higher power is a reason to join and stay with such a religion, even if some of its doctrines may not make a lot of sense (via the priesthood changing the meaning of the original teachings of the Founder and Master).
Or, it may have been that he simply got careless and let the chainsaw slide off a tree trunk he was cutting, thus accidentally cutting off his own leg below the knee. Rather than admit his own carelessness, he invented a story about his leg being pinned by a tree trunk, which forced him to amputate his own leg.
Also possible 🙂
Good story.
God is real, but the bible and the church are not our friends:
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