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Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Listen to your heart


Consider your heart...

It is made up of muscles and 4 chambers that beat automatically without our thought.

It beats an average of 80 beats/minute, every minute of every hour, every hour of every day, and every day of our life! That could work out to pumping 4-5 billion times in our lifetime.

It is very sensitive and extremely quick to respond. Consider standing up from a sitted position. If the heart does not beat that little harder or faster, we might feel faint because the blood pressure to the brain is decreased at a higher height.

Although only the size of your fist, it pumps at least 2,500 gallons [9,500 liters] of blood throughout your body daily—roughly the equivalent of raising a one-ton weight to a height of 40 feet [some 10 m] every 24 hours!

If the blood vessels of just one adult were laid end to end, they would stretch out for 60,000 miles [100,000 kilometers] and could encircle the earth two and a half times!

Ever got a bruise? That's some blood vessels that had ruptured due to some trauma. The blood vessel would plug itself up and prevent further leakage and with time, repair the "hole" by itself!

Our blood vessels are very elastic and despite years of bending at the joints, it does not wear out and crack or break.

Scientists marvel at our heart and the circulatory system. This is only a very very short list of the marvels of the heart. Nothing has been invented that comes close to what the heart can do.

Still wondering if there is an intelligent Designer Creator out there? Just listen to your heart... it will tell you the answer.

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