Opus 2025-230: Wants, Needs, Haves

As I sat contemplating the blessings that God has bestowed on me I wondered how I would explain that to someone.  What is it that I attribute all these blessings to?  One of the points that came to mind was that I certainly can’t credit my glorious self discipline, hard work and great intelligence.

Yet I am truly blessed.

I can’t think of anything that I really want that I can’t have if I set my mind to it.  All of my needs are abundantly met, and I have a hard time seeing how those basics would be dissolved or disappeared, except for extreme action by the government working overtime to destroying the economy or incredibly stupid decisions by my wife or myself.  I rejoice in the haves that God has given me.

Since I was in the mood, I ask myself what would my life be like if I got what I deserved?  First of all, I would be a physical basket case.  I deserve to be confined to a wheelchair, but not being able to afford a wheelchair.  I deserve to be locked away in the cheapest nursing home in the country.  Based on my personal discipline I deserve to be blinded, missing limbs, and in constant pain because of my diabetes and lack of care for it.  I deserve to be toothless and hardly able to stand up and walk straight because of my lack of discipline.  I deserve to be alone in the world because I don’t know the basics about friendship.

Yes, I am blessed.  Why?  Only by the grace of God and by his providential care can I claim any of this.  So, I do so.  God’s grace is how, and the power of providential care are the source of the blessings that we can’t explain but we can be grateful for.

I also think that attitude can make us more aware of the blessings we have.  There have been times in my attitude really stinks.  I trust I’m over that.

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