Have you ever woke up, not knowing you have gone to sleep? Maybe you had drifted off during a ball game or TV show. Maybe you were reading and slipped into a short nap. Perhaps, you closed your eyes to pray but wound up falling asleep.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates an incredible 100,000 accidents occur each year because drivers either fell asleep at the wheel or were driving drowsy.
Here’s the point. You didn’t realize you were asleep until you woke up. (more…)
We live in a disturbed world. Not the disturbed that unloads a gun on people in a Colorado movie theater, but the disturbed that interrupts what we do every 23 seconds. According to author John Freeman,
600 million emails are sent every 10 minutes. (Ever feel that most of them land in your inbox)?
65% of North Americans spend more time with their computers than with their spouses.
The average corporate worker spends 40% of his or her time sending or receiving emails.
49% of all drivers with cell phones text while driving.
When was the last time you had lunch with someone where his or her phone didn’t ring, beep, or play the annoying part of a rock song? How often do you lay your phone on top of the table, just in case a life changing email were to come through? (By the way, has it?) (more…)
As you look around the country, it’s easy to see a place that needs some change. We seem to have issues running out our ears. From the national debt to the healthcare debate, from moral decline, or the fragile state of the family. After all these years, we still face issues of race, inequality, and prejudice. On top of that, the economy continues to struggle and people are still losing their jobs or unable to find employment.
Let’s face it our nation is hurting. Try as our leaders may, it seems that most of our problems lay beyond our abilities to find solutions; but maybe that’s the way it was meant. As never before we need solutions that go beyond our abilities, we need help that goes beyond our own thinking – we need a miracle. (more…)