In \u201cFocus on the Family,\u201d Rolf Zettersten wrote, \u201cA good friend in North Carolina bought a new car with a voice-warning system\u2026 At first Edwin was amused to hear the soft female voice gently remind him that his seat belt wasn\u2019t fastened\u2026 Edwin affectionately called this voice the \u2018little woman\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe soon discovered his little woman was programed to warn him about his gasoline. \u2018Your fuel level is low,\u2019 she said one time in her sweet voice. Edwin nodded his head and thanked her. He figured he still had enough gas to go another 50 miles, so he kept on driving. But a few minutes later, her voice interrupted again with the same warning. And so it went over and over. Although he knew it was the same recording, Edwin thought her voice sounded harsher each time.<\/p>\n
\u201cFinally, he stopped his car and crawled under the dashboard. After a quick search, he found the appropriate wires and gave them a good yank. So much for the \u2018little woman.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was still smiling to himself a few miles later when his car began sputtering and coughing. He ran out of gas! Somewhere inside the dashboard, Edwin was sure he could hear the little woman laughing.\u201d<\/p>\n
People like Edwin learn before long that the little voice inside, although ignored or even disconnected, often tells them exactly what they need to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In \u201cFocus on the Family,\u201d Rolf Zettersten wrote, \u201cA good friend in North Carolina bought a new car with a voice-warning system\u2026 At first Edwin was amused to hear the soft female voice gently remind him that his seat belt wasn\u2019t fastened\u2026 Edwin affectionately called this voice the \u2018little woman\u2019. \u201cHe soon discovered his little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[538,2516,4182,4920,961],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}