Was it Designed?

BONE - A Marvel of Strenght!

Bone has been described as "an engineering masterpiece of tensile, compressive and elastic strength.

Consider: The human skeleton consists of approximately 206 bones and 68 joints. The longest bone is the femur, of thighbone; the smallest is the stapes, a bone inside your ear. As skilled gymnasts clearly demonstrate, bones, muscles, cartilage, and joints can give a healthy body an astonishing degree of flexibility and range of movement. "The thumb alone would convince anyone that the architect of  our body (whoever that may be to each one of us) had to be genius!" says the National Space Biomedical Research Institute.

Bones can also take an incredible pounding. "[They] are constructed in exactly the same way that reinforced concrete is constructed," states the institute. "The steel of reinforced concrete provides the tensile strength, while the cement, sand, and rock provide the compressional strength. However, the compressional strength of bones is greater than that of even the best reinforced concrete." "We only wish we could mimic it," said Robert O. Richie, a professor of materials science at the University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.

Unlike concrete, bone is an essential part of countless living organisms. And it is dynamic. It is able to repair itself, respond to hormones that affect its growth and development, and even play a key role in the manufacture of blood cells. Also, like muscle, it slowly grows stronger, as the load on it increases. Hence, athletes have heavier bones than do so-called couch potatoes.

What do you think? Is bone a product of chance? Or was it designed?

Secrets of Family Success

Secret 1- The Right Priorities

Having the right priorities requires that each spouse puts the other's needs ahead of self, possessions, job, friends, and even other relatives. Both are willing to make sacrifices for the interests of the family. Spending more time with each other and with the children.

Yet overtime, a person's priorities may change. Many seemed more focused on career than on family? Yes it is easier to say that we put family first than to show it.

Rate your sense of priority:
1. When my spouse or child needs to talk, do I give that person my attention as soon as possible?
2. When talking to my boss or others about my activities, do I consider first, the things I do with my family?
3. Would I turn down added responsibility ( on the job or elsewhere) if my family needed time?

If you answered YES to the above questions, you might assume that you have the right priorities. But how would your spouse and children rate you? How we see ourselves is not the only yardstick by which our priorities are measured.

Lastly take note,

A winning parent, places high priority on spouse and children. Why not share your resolves with your family? When one member shows willingness to change, the others are more likely to follow.