FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE
From Jim Hansel’s book, Holy Sweat: “We as human beings are living miracles. We are, as the psalmist says, “fearfully and wonderfully made.” I don’t know if you realize it, but you and I produce about three billion red blood cells every day, about a million a minute. I told that to a group one time and then asked, “How does that make you feel? I expected them to be astonished and excited. One guy said, “Tired.” We all laughed. But we should be appropriately awestruck, actually. We’ve got approximately sixty thousand miles of capillaries running through our bodies. In some places, the cells have to line up one by one to go through in order to do what they are supposed to do. And this is all choreographed without the least bit of conscious thought on our part. The human eye can see an estimated eight million different colors. It’s also estimated that two million signals are hitting our…
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