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Rosemary Laxton • Meanwood Valley Baptist Church • Illustration • • 30 views • 6:53
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
A New Jersey man who cleans homes to supplement his income shared the story of how he accidentally went to a townhouse and left it spotless. Louis Angelino said he often cleans homes for friends to make extra money and was schedule to clean the home for his friend Mark. He arrived and found the key in…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Pope Francis called on the world’s Catholics to make better use of their time. His challenge to the faithful was to “give up insulting people on social media for Lent and pray instead of wasting time with ‘useless words, gossip, rumors, tittle-tattle.’” The Week, March 6, 2020 p. 6 The rest of us could…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Communities across the United Kingdom are being invited to adopt the famous red telephones boxes. British Telecommunications has initiated a program to convince local communities to adopt and use local red telephone boxes that are no longer needed. The growth in mobile phone usage has rendered the boxes…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Over the last ten years the average price of Super bowl advertisements has doubled. Commercial time for Super Bowl LIII (53) sold for an average of $5.25 million for a 30 second ad, roughly $175,000 per second. If every 30 seconds is that valuable, then each day is potentially worth slightly more than…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
Writing to business executives, Peter Drucker says, “. . . only constant efforts at managing time can prevent drifting [into wasting time]. Systematic time management is therefore the next step. One has to find the nonproductive, time-wasting activities and get rid of them if one possibly can” —Jim L.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 41 views
When Isabel Larios was stuck in LA traffic after an accident on her way to work, she made the most of it. Instead of complaining, she got out of the cab of her food truck and opened up for the other motorists waiting for the road to clear. National Public Radio reported that she “served eggs, burritos…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
“As a personal commodity, money is extremely elastic, in that you can theoretically accumulate an infinite amount of it, and your income fluctuates at different points in your life. Time, by contrast, is intrinsically inelastic: You cannot accumulate more of it, and you’ve never had any less of it. You…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Lando Norris, a driver for the McLaren Formula One racing team, was soaking in the tub after arriving in Sao Paulo when he learned the two day test had been cancelled for security reasons. The test was cancelled after robbers attacked team cars and vans outside the circuit at a race the weekend before.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
British police found a suspicious object along a highway and closed the road for several hours to protect motorists. A video recorded along the stretch of road showed that the stranded travelers passed the time by playing an extended soccer game in the empty northbound lanes. Thames Valley Police said…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
Jamie Farlee recognized that his friends and neighbors were struggling with the turmoil in the nation and decided to take a unique approach. Rather than complain or protest like many others, Farlee made signs pointing in another direction. Braving chilly January weather, he sat on the tailgate of his…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 36 views
On August 7, 2016, Luke Aikins jumped from 25,000 feet above California's Simi Valley without a parachute, landing in a 100ft. x 100ft., two-tiered net. After the jump, he said “whenever people attempt to push the limits of what's considered humanly possible, they're invariably described as crazy, but…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Smart Phones keep track of a lot of information about the people who use them. Now, a Spanish wireless company says they have devised a way to measure a person’s boredom level using several easily checked factors. Researchers for the company had 54 participants install an app that monitored phone statistics…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
June 2015 was one second longer than usual because scientists added one leap second to keep the earth and atomic clocks in synch. Scientists say that leap seconds are not like a leap days, which come every four years. Leap seconds are not predictable because weather exerts a force on the Earth’s surface,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
The Colorado Rockies handed out 15,000 shirts to fans attending a recent home game. The only problem was, the shirts were meant to honor their shortstop Troy Tulowitzki, but his name was spelled wrong. The team incorrectly spelled the player’s name “Tulowizki,” and said they decide to hand out the shirts…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
The latest survey by the American Time Use Survey shows that Americans spend an average of two hours and 46 minutes each day watching TV. It is our most frequent past time. Americans over the age of 14 also spend eight hours and 44 minutes a night sleeping 10 minutes more per night than we did a decade…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
Michael McDowell, a popular NASCAR driver took some time away from the social media before the busy racing began. He told his supporters on Facebook and Twitter that he would refrain from using social networking sites for thirty days as part of what he called a “social media fast.” McDowell says he got…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 45 views
When Florida authorities arrested 49-year-old Jeffrey Hawkins on charges of trespassing, they expected him to say very little for his own protection. Instead, Hawkins waved his right to right to remain silent and began talking about his fraudulent use of credit cards saying he was “sick of running.”…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
A new survey indicates a growing number of people are less attracted to social media sites such as Facebook. The poll conducted by Reuters and the Ipsos research firm found roughly a third of social media users are not excited about the experience, and the sentiment seems to be growing. The survey found…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Animal rescuers rushed to a Singapore home after a woman called them because she thought she heard a cobra hissing in her bathroom. When the woman called the emergency number, she sent the team a recording of the noise she heard, which they believed could be the sound of a deadly black spitting cobra,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
In Long Beach, California, police arrested a man for taking a photograph of “no aesthetic value.” “Sander Wolff, who takes photos for a local newspaper, was detained after snapping shots of an oil refinery.” What if authorities arrested everyone for engaging in activities of no value? Life could become…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 7 views
I find this great need for control in my own life constantly. Recently we went on our staff retreat. We always handle some items of business on the way to wherever we’re staying. This year we took a personality test. Yep, that’s right! I suppose we were trying to see if any us actually had a personality.…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 20 views
I must confess that God is still growing me in this area and I have a long long way to go. I have, however, met other pastors who seemed to really “be in step.” When I was a little kid living in Jacksonville, N.C., my dad pastored the “First Church” in that town. We would often go out in the country,…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 2 views
One modern philosopher admitted, “I want atheism to be true … It isn't just that I don't believe in God, and, naturally, hope that I'm right about my belief. It's that I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that."”
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 48 views
Though it has not been scientifically proven, feats of what psychologists call “hysterical” strength do occur. In 2006 in Tucson, Ariz., Tim Boyle watched as a Chevrolet Camaro hit 18-year-old Kyle Holtrust. The car pinned Holtrust, still alive, underneath. Boyle ran to the scene of the accident and…