God's Life-App

Life has a million wicked tricks for increasing stress, but now, with the right app, a smartphone can be a tool to help reduce stress and find calm.

Stress levels are higher than ever.

Higher than 1983 at the very least. According to researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, stress increased 18 percent for women and 24 percent for men between the years 1983 and 2009. Hit especially hard were people with lower incomes and less education. Overall, most of us are feeling more stress today because of economic pressures and the difficulty of protecting ourselves from the world and its constant flow of information.

But there is some good news, according to USA Today: Stress decreases as you age. Yes, that's right. If you can stay alive and keep aging, eventually you'll feel less stress.

So what are people doing to deal with their stress? Adult coloring books are huge right now, and some are actually advertising "stress relieving patterns." The Washington Post reports that about 12 million adult coloring books were sold in the United States in 2015. Books have been created for fans of cats, Dr. Who, Taylor Swift and even...