[SoldierDad]

There but for the Grace of God, go I. I am nothing without Him.

[KsSunflower]

SoldierDad...I have enjoyed reading your posts this evening. God Bless You, and your son will be in my prayers as I head for bed tonight. May God strengthen and keep him as he defends us.

[Quix]

I think it's a paradox.

I'm not nothing without Him in the same way that a rock is nothing without Him.

I'm still made in His image.

But the image tends to get so tarnished, polluted, mangled without Him . . . the functional result is probably somewhat akin to being equal to a rock without Him.

[Quix]

YUP, YUP.