Self and Selfie 

An Indian government food inspector dropped his cell phone in a reservoir in May, while taking a selfie. When divers couldn’t retrieve it, he ordered that the 500,000-gallon reservoir be pumped dry. They eventually found the phone, but it was too waterlogged to operate. He then found himself in “deep water.” He was suspended from his job and fined, since the water was intended to irrigate farmland during the hot summer in Chhattisgarh state. 

A Whole Country Gets Younger 

On June 28, all South Koreans got younger! Was it the result of a Nobel Prize scientific discovery? 

No, the country decided to jettison a traditional age custom that counted infants as a year old at the time of birth. 

Around the World (literally!)

We use the expressions “out of town” and “out of the country” when we are away from home. For a year, U.S. astronaut Mark Vande Hei could say he was “out of the world!” He set the U.S. record for time in space after completing 5,680 trips around the earth over a span of 355 consecutive days. 

Life as a Testimony

“Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 5:16; see also Philippians 2:15).

The Reverend Billy Graham, whose life on earth ended in 2018, about eight months short of 100 years, made the Gallup list  of most admired men and women (started in 1946) a record sixty-one times. 

Don’s comment: Billy Graham would be the first to give glory for this recognition to His Savior Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit within. 

Source: NEWSMAX Magazine, April 2023, p. 29