Page 15 - The Miracle of the Blood and Heart

ook at yourself in the mirror. Can you feel
the presence of a network of crimson red
fluid pumping at high speed and pressure
just 2 millimeters under the skin of your
face? Are you aware of a magnificent net-
work of veins, altogether thousands of kilometers in length,
and a pumping heart capable of squirting blood meters high
into the air?
No! There is no sign of this impressive movement in your
reflection in the mirror. Yet this activity continues ceaselessly
while you get on with your life. Even while you are asleep,
your heart pumps blood with great power and audible sound
known as your heartbeat, and the blood flows at great speed,
again with a sound known as your pulse. The chief reason
why you are unaware of all this is your delicate skin, created
specially for you. This gives you an attractive, ordered and
calm appearance while concealing and protecting all this
activity beneath it.
This circulatory system is formed collectively by your
blood, heart and network of blood vessels, and functions
without pause throughout your life. The flowing of the blood,
with all its countless features, is one of the matchless proofs of
creation.
The blood acts both as a carrier and as a regulator within
the body. It flows constantly and has tasks that it will not
fail to perform at every moment throughout that jour-
ney:

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