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\nThe Fire of Sacrifice featuring Lucy Stimpson- Maynard from the album Precious recorded and produced by Ross Gill<\/p>\nI thought it would be nice to start the new year with a positive thought and I am, therefore sharing something I recently read in \u201cWord for Today.\u201d
\nDespite your aches and pains, you are a living, breathing, walking, talking wonder. The psalmist said, \u2018You created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother\u2019s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made\u2019 (vv. 13-14 NIV).
\nOne author explains: \u2018Most of us take our eyesight for granted, but even the simplest of processes is divinely complex. The retina, for example, conducts close to ten billion calculations every second, and that is before an image even travels through the optic nerve to the visual cortex. The human nose can detect one-millionth of one milligram of garlic floating in the air and distinguish among ten thousand distinct odours. The hairs blanketing your body magnify the sensation of touch so that you can discern a thousandth of an ounce of pressure on the tip of a half-inch hair. Amazing, isn\u2019t it?\u2019
\nTrillions of chemical reactions are taking place in every cell of your body every second. You are inhaling oxygen, metabolising energy, digesting food, maintaining equilibrium, purifying toxins, producing hormones, exhaling carbon dioxide, repairing tissues, and circulating blood. As you read this, millions of electrical impulses are firing across billions of synaptic pathways, and you don\u2019t even think about it.
\nBut you should, and you should praise God for the gift of life and the multitude of His blessings you enjoy. And you should do one more all-important thing: discover your life\u2019s purpose and dedicate yourself to fulfilling it. It has been said the two most important days in a person\u2019s life are the day they\u2019re born and the day they discover why they were born. Think about it!<\/p>\n
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Wishing you all a most blessed 2024
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