Sermon Illustration

While visiting a Swiss town, an American businessman watched a man painstakingly carving the casing for one of the fine cuckoo clocks made in that region. Noting the slow rate of progress, the businessman said, "My good man, you'll never make much money that way." "Sir," the clock-maker replied, "I'm not making money, I'm making cuckoo clocks."

>To realize the value of one year: - Ask a student who has failed a final exam. To realize the value of one month: - Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby. To realize the value of one week: - Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper To realize the value of one hour: - Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet. To realize the value of one minute: - Ask a person who has missed the train, bus or plane. To realize the value of one second: - Ask a person who has survived an accident. To realize the value of one millisecond: - Ask the person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics.

Children today average 17 hours a week with Mom and Dad, 40 percent less time than children spent with their parents in 1965. And they spend more than 25 hours a week watching television. Los Angeles Times, quoted in Signs of the Times, May, 1992