Today I want to talk to you about safety of you and your family.

Now, I'm not talking about safety against criminals or getting robbed, that kind of thing.

I'm talking about safety in your everyday walk of life, concerning daily risk of just

kind of moving about the world, risks that could be life-threatening, but yet we choose to live with these

conditions or activities anyway. Now, there's a big question here, and I really want you to ask

yourself, why would we do that? Why would we knowingly subject ourselves, our children, to situations, circumstances, activities

that could seriously injure or, in fact, kill them.

Or kill us.

Some skiers can be seen jumping off before the chairs crash into one another.

That's the real story.

Now, hopefully I'm making you think here by asking yourself the questions.

What are the risks that I live with?

Do I make a conscious decision to live with them, or am I just

not thinking about it? Am I assuming somebody else is looking out for me and mine? I'll bet if you

do stop and think about it, you would say, you're aware that you take a certain amount of risk

every day regarding you and your family,

and that that's just life.

I mean, let's face it, we can't live in a bubble, right?

So where is the line?

You can't live in a bubble, but where is the line about what is an acceptable level of risk?

And who decides what that is? Is it you? Is it some manufacturer

of something you use, maybe your car or a ladder or your house? Is it the government? Now,

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