Emphasis Preaching Journal

When people who have just performed some heroic, life-threatening deed in order to save another are asked what they thought about what they were doing while they were doing it, the reply is usually "nothing." Here's a stranger who helped pull three children out of a burning house: "I didn't even think about it. It was happening so fast, and I knew we just had to get them out of there." Here's the mother who lifts a tree off her son's leg: "I didn't even stop to think that the tree was too heavy for me. I didn't feel how heavy it was -- until I put it down."