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[[Gratitude is a rare gift.. How grateful are you?..]]

That’s a sticky subject- While the man with no shoes may have been dissapoijted in his conditions until seeing the man with no feet- he still has the problems associated with not havign shoes- Am I dissappointed in how life has turned out for me? You betcha- Am I ungrateful to be alive? No- absolutely not- Am I thnakful thigns aren’t worse? Of course- but htis changes nothign about hte severity of the conditions I’ve had to endure- Would I change anything If I could? Sure, but that doesn’t mean I don’;t enjoy the opportunities illness has brought as well, and would probably miss them if htings were different after changing them if I could

[[Are you an American and not a Zimbabean, or Kenyan?... There is much to be grateful for..]]

Am I the King of Spain, or the world for that matrer? Nope-

I’m not complqining- but I’m also not goign to pretend thigns are grwat because ‘things could be worse’ either. I fully accept my particular situation, and accept that God is the potter, and no matter how bad thigns become, will trust in Him- but like Joni Erikson said, we can still love God while hating the terrible thigns in life that have happened to us because of original sin- it;’s not a sin to hate the effects of sin that have made our lives not so great- this isn’t how God wanted thigns to be- He wanted us all to be kigns of the world, not paupers and lame/blind/deaf/ crippled etc- we just weren’t smart enough to figure out what we were throwing away when we ate the apple