Special Events
Texas Lutheran University provides many opportunities for its students and faculty to hear from fundamental and motivational people around the world. The most recent visitor was Aron Ralston, a man with an inspirational story and author of the best-selling book of his journey entitled Between a Rock and a Hard Place. Ralston's story was also documented through the Academy Award-nominated movie 127 Hours.
Ralston, an experienced climber, shared with the TLU community his journey of descending a Utah canyon when his right arm was crushed by an 800-pound boulder, leaving him pinned for nearly five days. He made the decision to sever his arm to escape the canyon. " I stepped out of my grave and into my life again," Ralston said.
Students found the lecture to be very intriguing and motivational. The TLU Twitter account tweeted a line from Ralston's lecture in which he stated "Sometimes our boulders are our blessings." It was seen that a number of students retweeted this. Nothing but good could be said about Ralston and his story.
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