My bed has sensors, most likely pressure sensors that can detect breath, movement, and heartbeat. The accompanying app performs calculations based on the readings—average heart rate, average breath rate, restful v restless sleep. It provides an overall score for the night’s sleep. It supposedly detects how long it takes to fall asleep.
It also pops up a piece of advice. Sometimes the advice is ludicrous.
The other day, I opened the app. It gave advice for evening wind down in order to help me fall asleep more quickly. I looked at the graph provided for sleep that night. Sleep came within one minute of crawling into bed.
One of the writers providing advice in the book of Proverbs in the Old Testament tells us to seek out many advisors.
We can observe our leaders, political or organizational or otherwise, who have listened to good advice and those who either chose to ignore sound advice or relied on untrustworthy sources.
Pause. Think about your sources of advice. Evaluate the good from the bad. Choose advisors wisely.
Gary Mintchell
Faith Venture 