We in our culture nowadays tend to go through life at a mad rush -- lickety split -- in constant hustle and bustle. Whew. It can leave our heads spinning.

And yet, our modern day pacing is not fast enough for some. They have developed a technique to use vacuum power to bring life into warp speed -- from the womb to the tomb in mere seconds -- a real Womb-To Tomb-Express.

What a way to wipe out all of life's inconveniences, disappointments, and pain -- in an instant -- before they happen. People put on the Womb-To-Tomb-Express will never need to use their "right of universal health care." No dirty diapers. No scraped knees. No broken hearts. And no taxes!

Unfortunately, travelers on the Womb-To-Tomb-Express, are denied "the right to choose", but what do disposable human beings know anyway? They made the mistake of being conceived in an inhospitable womb.

Change? Hope? Inspiration? The next president? What difference does it matter to those innocents chosen for the WTTE? They don't care. They're outta here in a flash.

All abord? No thanks. I missed the Womb-To-Tomb-Express. When I was a womb dweller, that service wasn't readily available to my mom. (Had it been, I am quite certain that she wouldn't have chosen a quick death for me.) And looking back, I am so thankful that I was chosen to go through life at regular speed.

Being an incredible winner for having beaten the tremendous odd against my conception, it would have been a shame to have missed out on the rest of my life. When I think about the millions chosen for that quick ride through life on the WTTE, it breaks my heart. Infanticide isn't innocent.

As I was driving to work this morning in Nashville, I noticed a church sign about being lonesome. It read something like this: "Ever Feel Lonesome? So Have We. Join Us Sunday At 10:30."

Now that started me wondering. Is their Sunday morning service a lonesome time for lonesome folks? Are you welcome if you are not lonesome? Is the congregation so lonesome that they are advertising for friends?

Biblical Christianity can be a lonesome lifestyle. Jesus promised that those who follow and obey Him will be persecuted and misunderstood. He said: "How narrow is the gate and difficult the road that leads to life, and few find it."

Jesus, Himself, was lonesome -- rejected by His people, misunderstood by His disciples, put to a torturous death by the Romans. Alone on the cross, He cried out: "My God, My God, why have You forsaken me?"

Yet, Jesus' loneliness in death ended in resurrection and produced a world wide movement of spiritual power, personal transformation, and salvation that continues to this day. It was written in the Old Testament that God will set the solitary in families. The New Testament calls it "the communion of the saints" or the fellowship of believers.

Being joined heart-to-heart in loving relationships with others who have hearts passionately aflame with love for Jesus Christ dispels loneliness. Maybe that is what the Nashville lonesome church sign is refferring to.

Mental impressions lead to beliefs. What you continually impress on your mind or allow others to impress on your mind, will eventually be believed by you. The only really effective way to change your beliefs is to work on the source -- your impressions. Your present belief system and behavior patters are the result of hundreds of thousands of impressions made on your mind over all the years of your life.

The most important mental impression maker in your mind is your own thinking. Many people are overly concerned with the impression they make on other people, but are very careless about the mental impressions they make on themselves through harmful, self-destructive thinking.

Today's mental impressions are the seeds of tomorrow's beliefs. Unfortunately, many people hang out their mind like a piece of fly paper and let it collect every impression that lands on it. In today's negative and self-destructive culture, that is the formula for defeat, depression, and discouragement.

Harmful mental impressions are everywhere, but you don't have to accept them. Instead you can fight the fight of belief. You can choose which mental impressions to accept as credible and helpful and which ones to reject as harmful trash. True change doesn't start in the White House. It starts in our individual minds.

We 21st Century Western folks are an odd lot. Unwilling to control our behavior, we attempt to manipulate consequences.

We allow our appetite and consumption of food to be unrestrained . . . then we have fat surgically removed and/or spend billions trying to find a magical diet.

We engage in random sex at a whim . . . then we pay a doctor to vacuum up and kill our offspring.

We buy adjustable mortgages that we can't afford . . . then we expect the government to bail us out.

We commit crimes . . . then we pay attorneys to get us off.

We watch, read about, think about, and do depressing, meaningless, guilt producing, violent behaviors . . . then we take drugs to feel better.

We ignore and destroy our health . . . then we expect the government to pay for our health care.

We commit adultery . . . then we lie like a dog to cover it up.

We give in to a compulsion to go against the sexual design of our body . . . then we expect the public, the church, and the government to sanction our behavior by calling it marriage.

We destroy our relationship with our wife or husband . . . then we magically wipe it away with a divorce.

We fail to spend the time necessary to show consistent love and discipline to our children . . . then we spend money to "fix it" and bail them out when they self-destruct and rebel.

We self-destruct with drugs or alcohol or pornography or gambling or any number of other harmful behaviors . . . then we expect someone else to fix it and make it all better.

Whew! Wouldn't it be much, much easier to spend our time and effort to develop positive, uplifting, good-results-producing behaviors in the first place? Wouldn't that be easier than trying to fix and cover up consequences? Why do we make ourselves work so hard?

Scientists wonder, "Does life exist on Mars?" But no one asks the question: "Does life exist on Earth?" We all accept the existence of life as an indisputable fact because we personally experience life both within us and all around us.

However, no one can see or touch life. True, we can see and touch living things, but life, itself, is invisible like the wind. We see the results of life -- what life produces -- but we don't see life itself.

When a living creature dies, we know that life is gone, but we cannot find anything material missing from the creature. Therefore, whatever life is, it is non-material.

Some people may suggest that life is merely mechanical, a machine like functioning of a material, fleshly body. However, if the remains of a human being could be made to mechanically bend its legs and waddle along upright, no one would suggest that the person's life had returned to his body. Therefore, life is much more than a mechanism made of matter.

Common sense reveals life to be non-material and invisible. So how is it possible (as many arrogantly insist) that something non-material could be produced by matter "evolving" over billions of years? How could something intangible and invisible come from collapsed atoms and a big bang? (And where did those theoretical ancient compacted atoms come from?)

The truth is, nobody can scientifically explain the origin of life. Science studies matter. Life is immaterial. Therefore science can offer nothing but time and chance as its "explanation" of the origin of life. Science clothes the most nieve idea, "It just happened on its on," into high sounding terms and theories and pontifically pronounces that life developed by itself from some kind of sludge 100 billion (or whatever number they choose) years ago.

Meanwhile, the smallest child knows that crushing a butterfly destroys something far more that a little bit of matter. Who is wise among us?