Tuesday, June 22, 2010

ALARM 2


I mentioned a few days ago on the blog that the fire alarm had gone off in our Seattle hotel room last week. It was annoying to everyone who had to go stand outside in the middle of the early evening, and yet - if it had been an emergency, we would all have been grateful for the noisy alarm.

Alarms are important and necessary, but we don't always appreciate them.

Most of us begin the day with some kind of alarm startling us out of a deep sleep.

The stove alarm tells us the cookies are done.

The dashboard alarm means you've left your headlights on.

The sounding of the car alarm in the crowded parking lot means someone is searching to remember where they parked.

The school alarm means this class is over and you have 3 minutes to get to the next one.

You may not hear it, but there is another alarm going off ...

On any given day, 700,000 people receive treatment for alcoholism.
Forty-six percent of all late teenagers in the U.S. have had sex at least once.
Fifteen-hundred children in the U.S. die every year from abuse or neglect.
Every second, $3,000 is being spent on pornography. Every second, 28,000 people are viewing it online.
Within two years of graduation, 96% of high school students leave the church. Less than 30% ever return.
Every day 146,000 people die. Every hour 6,000. Every minute 100.

Can you hear it? The alarm is sounding.

And be blessed.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It makes me think that since I have begun seeing a Christian counselor, that it should be considered preventive medicine. I think so many people have deep wounds and many of the ways they seek to cope with that is destructive. Counseling helps to figure it all out and heal those scars inside. I could be wrong, but it just might save the insurance companies and society , in general, the cost of treating all of the illness that results from these destructive bahaviors.