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MINI TIPS

Please do not turn on A/C on immediately as soon as you enter the car. Open the windows after you enter your car and turn ON the air-conditioning after a couple of minutes. 

Here's why:  According to a research, the car dashboard, sofa, air freshener emit Benzene, a Cancer causing toxin (carcinogen - take time to observe the smell of heated plastic in your car).  In addition to causing cancer, Benzene poisons your bones, causes anemia and reduces white blood cells. Prolonged exposure will cause Leukemia, increasing the risk of cancer. May also cause miscarriage.  Acceptable Benzene level indoors is 50 mg per sq. ft. A car parked indoors with windows closed will contain 400-800 mg of Benzene. If parked outdoors under the sun at a temperature above 60 degrees F, the Benzene level goes up to 2000-4000 mg, 40 times the acceptable level... People who get into the car, keeping windows closed will inevitably inhale, in quick succession excessive amounts of the toxin.  Benzene is a toxin that affects your kidney and liver. What's worse, it is extremely difficult for your body to expel this toxic stuff.  

So friends, please open the windows and door of your car - give time for interior to air out -dispel the deadly stuff - before you enter

GOD WILL SEE YOU THROUGH
2 Corinthians 1:3 -  Praise be to God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort.

God can bring you through situations you think you won’t survive, or feel you’ll be stuck in forever.  He can make you comfortable in the most uncomfortable places, and give you peace in the midst of trauma.  Before your life is over you’ll live, love, and experience loss.  Losing some things will actually help you to appreciate the things you still have.  It’s the taste of failure that makes success sweet.  You’ll live each day not knowing what tomorrow holds, but confident that God has your tomorrows all planned out.   They’re not in the hands of your boss or your banker or your mate or anybody else.  Nor are they in your own hands to manipulate and control.  No, all your tomorrows are in God’s hands.  Just because you don’t recognize the path you’re on doesn’t mean that God’s not leading you.  He promises, “I will lead them in paths they have not known.  I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight.  These things I will do for them, and not forsake them” (Isaiah 42:16).  So get to know God-you’ll need Him.  And He’ll be there for you.  He’ll be there when everybody and everything else has failed you.  He’ll be there for you in the dark places.  “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning” Psalm 30:5.  However long the night, morning always comes, and with it His joy.  As you look back you’ll realize that His grace protected you, provided for you,, secured you, calmed you, comforted you and brought you through.  Times and seasons change, but not God.  He’s always “the God of all comfort.

 

Thought:  'When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others.' - Chinese Proverb

 

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