Hope

IN 1997 THE JOURNAL of the American Heart Association reported on some remarkable research...

According to the Chicago Tribune, Susan Everson of the Human Population Laboratory of the Public Health Institute in Berkeley, California, found that people who experienced high levels of despair had a 20 percent greater occurence of atherosclerosis -- the narrowing of their arteries -- than did optimistic people. "This is the same magnitude of increased risk that one sees in comparing a pack-a-day smoker to a non-smoker," said Everson.

In other words, despair can be as bad for you as smoking a pack a day.

THOUGHT: That is just one more reason to choose hope and and faith. The Christian life contributes to good health today, and eternal life tomorrow.

KneEmail: "Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day" ( 2 Cor. 4:16).

Posted by Mike Benson at October 16, 2008 1:41 PM

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