March Madness began yesterday for men’s college basketball teams. There are more winners and losers than the sixty-four teams that began the tournament, however.
If you’re one of the forty million people who filled out a bracket, know that your odds of predicting the winner of every game are one in 9.2 quintillion. (Baylor’s loss yesterday ended my chances.) But beer and pizza companies always win during March—beer consumption escalates nearly thirty percent, while pizza orders increase by nineteen percent.
Meanwhile, productivity in America loses. Experts estimate that lost wages paid to distracted and unproductive workers could reach as high as $1.9 billion. That amount of cash stacked in dollar bills would reach approximately 120 miles into the atmosphere. That’s seventeen times higher than the altitude at which commercial jetliners fly.
Clearly, what we do in private affects what we accomplish in public.
This fact relates to our spiritual lives as well. In My Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers claims that “my worth to God in public is what I am in private.” Why is this true?
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