The Importance of Gratitude

[tabibito]

Pure application would be a focus on how we can apply the particular passage at hand to living our life in Christ. The setting of a passage and what happens and how it fits in history is good from an intellectual standpoint, but on a practical level, unpacking just want it means to, e.g., "take up your cross and follow Me" complete with illustrative examples is much more pertinent to the average believer on a daily basis. We are not put on this earth to become master exegetes; we are here to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling, learning to love the Lord our God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength, and our neighbor as ourselves.

The response to such a preaching is frequently

[Sparko]

Spongebob treats me like I sometimes treat God.

same here - I need to talk to God more, just about life, and say "Thank you" more often.

[Cow Poke]

same here - I need to talk to God more, just about life, and say "Thank you" more often.

My youngest daughter has been the picture of this for me....

When she was little, sometimes she would climb up in my lap when I was in my EZchair and wrap her arms around my neck, and say, "Daddy, I love you".

I'd growl "Oh yeah, what do you want NOW?"

And she'd giggle and say "I don't want anything - I just want to tell you I love you".

And she just sent me a text telling me that her coworker wants me to be HER Dad, too!

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My baby is the one on the right - people often confuse them for the other person, and/or believe they are sisters.

[Sparko]

My youngest daughter has been the picture of this for me....

When she was little, sometimes she would climb up in my lap when I was in my EZchair and wrap her arms around my neck, and say, "Daddy, I love you".

I'd growl "Oh yeah, what do you want NOW?"

And she'd giggle and say "I don't want anything - I just want to tell you I love you".

And she just sent me a text telling me that her coworker wants me to be HER Dad, too!

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My baby is the one on the right - people often confuse them for the other person, and/or believe they are sisters.

My right or yours?

[Cow Poke]

My right or yours?

I'm not sure - I get confused.

[One Bad Pig]

I'm not sure - I get confused.

Without a caption, I'd have guessed the one on the right. She definitely looks more like you.

[rogue06]

same here - I need to talk to God more, just about life, and say "Thank you" more often.

Yup. I really hate it that for all practical purposes I only talk to Him when I need or want something and only occasionally remember to say thanks (especially in light of Luke 17:11-19).

[rogue06]

My right or yours?

As my father woulda said: there ain't nothing right about that boy (you).


Okay. Maybe he never said that. But I can imagine him doing so.

[One Bad Pig]

Yup. I really hate it that for all practical purposes I only talk to Him when I need or want something and only occasionally remember to say thanks (especially in light of Luke 17:11-19).

I grew up with the notion that spontaneous prayer was the only valid way to go, but the set morning and evening prayers I've said since I became Orthodox have helped me immensely in that regard.

[Cow Poke]

Without a caption, I'd have guessed the one on the right. She definitely looks more like you.

She's the less tall of the two.

[Cow Poke]

She's the less tall of the two.

It's kinda funny, cause one of them will see a patient one day, then the other will stop in the next day, and the patient will say, "well, I explained all of that to you yesterday...."

[One Bad Pig]

She's the less tall of the two.

[rogue06]

She's the less tall of the two.

Why don't you distinguish them by the colo... ahhh. You know what? Never mind. Have I told you recently how much I admire you?

[Cow Poke]

Why don't you distinguish them by the colo... ahhh. You know what? Never mind. Have I told you recently how much I admire you?