Emphasis Preaching Journal
Down for the count
Commentary
All of my life, as I am sure of that in most of your lives, I have had to live by the
numbers, and it has only gotten worse. There was a time when if you could manage to
keep your social security number and telephone number in your head you could pretty
well count on getting through the day unscathed. Those days are gone forever. I believe
that the downward slide began with the invention of the area code. All right, I innocently
went along believing that little harm would come and that could even be some benefit.
What did I know?

