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An Eagle Scout billed $25,000 for a rescue. He got lost while hiking in New Hampshire.  The price of this rescue was much (much) more then the average of $203.  I’m guessing this must have been a big rescue attempt for it to cost over 100 times more then the average.

As most of you know I enjoy hiking, so thats why this story caught my attention.  It’s kinda fun to read what people think.  One person said that we don’t charge for ambulance for drug addicts but we charge a 17 year old boy.  Other people said that it was his choice to be out in the woods (and without a buddy!) and it was his choices that got him lost so why should tax payers be held responsible.   And still another person asked that if they were going to be charged did the parents have a choice in how much to spend for the search and rescue?  And if they did not find the boy would they have still charged?

I guess for me what I get from this is the importance to do ‘prep work’ for a hike.  I know my last one I did a crappy job at (did have a great time and stayed on the trail but just went the wrong way!).  In today’s world there is no reason not to have a good GPS with waypoints to your vehicle, camp, and anything else (another thing we did wrong last time, we had a GPS but did not mark where the car was, how dumb was that?).  Also the importance of having a buddy at all times.  You should never be out in the woods by your self.  Never.  If he had a friend with him he might have been like “Hey, the trail is over here” (or at very least the 25K would have been 12.5K for each!)

Okay, I guess when it comes down to it if I was out in the woods and got lost and a search and rescue was done and it cost 25K, I would understand when they send me a bill.  I would not like it, but I would understand.

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one of my favorite Hymns is “Jesus I Come (Out Of My Bondage) and so here are a few people singing it that I found and liked on You Tube.  I think the best version is by Matthew Perryman Jones but I could not find it on You Tube.

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In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry.  In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth had dried out.  Then God said to Noah, “Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.  Bring out with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh—birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth—that they may swarm on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”  So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.  Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by families from the ark.

WooHoo!  Made it off the boat!  I’m sure it was not the best smelling place around.  So I’m sure they had joy at leaving the boat.  But to go into a world where everything had died.  They must have felt sorrow at the same time.  Life is like that a lot.  You can rejoice about one thing and yet be completely heart broken about another thing.

P.S. Genesis 8:15 is a small verse.  ”Then God said to Noah”  Thats the whole verse.  5 words.  No real point to this, I just noticed it and wanted to point it out.

P.P.S. All Scripture are taken from the English Standard Version (ESV) of the Holy Bible

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Marci Moo is my sister’s nick name for Marci.

Anyways, we saw Dr. Barrett again today.  We are a little bit more dilated and he really thinks it’s going to be soon.  Yesterday (the 27th) was our due date so he did give us the option of inducing.  Nyssa was not sure if she wanted to or not so she asked me and I said “No, not yet”.  Dr. Barrett agreed that waiting for now was the best option.  We did all agree that if she does not come out by next Tuesday (10-6) that we will induce then.

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How great, O Lord, is your love

How wonderful are your mercies!

They are fresher then the morning due

They are greater then the heavens

They are more beautiful then the setting of the sun

They are purer then the waters from a spring

And they are brighter then the midday sun

How great, O Lord, is your love

How wonderful are your mercies!

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