{"id":39723,"date":"2017-08-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/homeowners-remove-alarm-clock-from-inside-wall-after-13-yea\/"},"modified":"2017-08-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T00:00:00","slug":"homeowners-remove-alarm-clock-from-inside-wall-after-13-yea","status":"publish","type":"sermon-illustrations","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/homeowners-remove-alarm-clock-from-inside-wall-after-13-yea\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeowners Remove Alarm Clock from Inside Wall after 13 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Homeowner Jerry Lynn was trying to figure out where he should put a hole in his wall for a TV wire. He went up to the second floor of his house and lowered his wife&#39;s alarm clock on a string through an air vent&mdash;according to a story from <em class=\"citation\">CNN<\/em>, he &quot;thought he could listen to the alarm, which he set to go off after 10 minutes, and know where to put the hole.&quot;<\/p>\n\n<p>But then the string broke. The clock fell. Lynn was still able to use it, though; when the alarm went off, &quot;[h]e could still hear where he needed to poke a hole in the wall.&quot;<\/p>\n\n<p>And then the alarm kept going off every night at the same time&mdash;for 13 years.<\/p>\n\n<p>Lynn had figured the batteries in the clock would likely die soon, but each night he and his wife would be treated to about a minute of beeping that could be heard &quot;from any room on the first floor.&quot;<\/p>\n\n<p>Lynn told <em>CNN<\/em> that they don&#39;t mind the beeping: &quot;It&#39;s kind of cute.&quot; But <em>NPR <\/em> reports that the nightly alarm became &quot;too much to bear,&quot; and the clock was removed from the wall.<\/p>\n\n<p>Rather than throw it out, though, &quot;[t]he clock now sits on their mantle, still set for 7:50 p.m.&quot;<\/p>\n\n<p><em>Potential Preaching Angles: What do we have in our lives that we&#39;ve just learned to &quot;deal with,&quot; to ignore or sweep under the rug? 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