The Circulatory System

[Music] here we are at the post office our mail gets delivered by companies that use sophisticated systems for distribution and tracking every package reaches its destination after a long journey by hand by truck train and plane just FedEx alone delivers more than 10 million packages every day to more than 220 countries and it keeps track of every single one until it reaches its destination wow that's amazing but do you know what's even more amazing no what could be more amazing than that your body inside our bodies the heart pumps the blood through special tubes called blood vessels bringing oxygen and nutrients to every organ and muscle down to the smallest tissue at the tips of our fingers this process takes under a minute after delivering what our bodies need the blood returns to the heart where it restocks with oxygen and clean blood the heart will pump and deliver the clean blood continuing this essential and life-saving cycle this delivery system is called the circulatory system your circulatory system delivers more packages than all the delivery systems of the world put together there are 7 billion people on the planet and there are 30 trillion cells in the human body that's 5,000 times the amount of all postal and delivery services put together all day long your circulatory system must feed 30 trillion hungry cells Each of which needs a different set of nutrients to function it's as if it sends trillions of delivery Vans zooming around to all corners of your body which unload minerals vitamins hormones glucose fats and amino acids exactly what each cell needs and at the very same time it knows exactly which elements could harm you it takes the waste products of each cell and then delivers them out of the body by expelling them so they do not harm you now imagine if your circulatory system got mixed up for example keratin is a protein needed to produce here if keratin were sent to the wrong addresses and caused here to grow in the wrong places you wouldn't be able to function properly if here covered your eyes you wouldn't be able to see and if it covered the palm of your hands you would not be able to grasp things firmly the fact that your body works this way shows us that Hashem created the most sophisticated awesome delivery system in your body so that each of your cells gets exactly what it needs your heart doesn't miss a beat your entire life it keeps your blood circulating so that every delivery arrives right on time and delivered in the exact amounts to its specific place and without a GPS even the largest most efficient postal delivery system with all its sophisticated networks and hundreds of thousands of employees can never deliver their packages the way your body does so yes your built-in delivery system is more amazing than any delivery system in the world and best of all you don't even have to pay for its services it's all a gift from Hashem stop think feel I am daving to Hashem who at this very moment is performing trillions of kindnesses within my body