Lifestyle
• The World Health Organization estimates that 1.9 million deaths worldwide are attributable to lack of physical activity.
• Chronic diseases associated with physical inactivity include cancer, diabetes, and coronary heart disease.
• More than a quarter of adults in the United States do not engage in any leisure-time physical activity, such as running, calisthenics, golf, gardening, or walking.
• Sixty percent of adults are not sufficiently active to achieve any health benefits.

Source: www.eatsmartmovemorenc.com/Data/TGTexts/FasInFat_2011.pdf
 
Church Sign
Here’s a profound quote I saw on an evangelical church sign in Chattanooga, Tennessee:
—Submitted by Lamar Phillips, Ooltewah, Tennessee
 
 
Adventist Life
My young grandson enjoys singing, “Lift Up the Trumpet” as he plays or wanders around the house. I asked him what Jesus will do when He comes.

Without hesitation he replied: “He’ll say, ‘Cock-a-doodle-doo!’ ”
—Ruth Calkins, Tustin, Michigan
 

One day my husband was out driving the crop sprayer in our family’s fields. A businessman phoned him, and my 10-year-old daughter told the man where Daddy was. There was a long pause at the other end. “He’s . . . praying?” came the reply from the confused businessman.
 
I’ve attached a picture of the sprayer, in case there are people who’ve likely never seen a crop sprayer. We use it to spray for unwanted weeds and bugs in our family’s wheat, barley, and soybean fields in rural North Dakota.
 
I love singing, and we’ve incorporated songs into our table prayers with the family. It’s a good way to “spray” peace upon the family and get rid of those unwanted “bugs” that pester our lives! 
—Brenda Klein, Sykeston, North Dakota
 
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This article was published October 27, 2011.