Showing posts with label John Piper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Piper. Show all posts
A psychiatrist working at Yale University, George Mahl, counted and examined ten speech disfluencies (including the infamous "uh" and "um") with the purpose of measuring a person's anxiety level.  He calculated that, on average, during every 4.4 seconds of spontaneous speech, one disfluency occurs in a person's speaking.   (Source)
With every week that passes by, 
I seem to realize more and more just how short life really is.

The changing of the seasons, illness, cancer, death, accidents, age, time-usage, friendships growing deeper, and friendships becoming forgotten, natural disasters, war, evil, the weakness and fragility of my own body...


These are all worldly reminders that shout out to me:  Life is short.
Find the thing(s) that really matter and pursue them whole-heartedly 
while you still can.    

(This sparks a search for objective truth and meaning which I have found in the all-encompassing love of Jesus Christ)