life is a big crap shoot. ya get what ya get. you can study and work hard to improve your 'lot' but you have to play the cards you get. as for acts of God - if you are ready to praise God for his gifts, you must also accept his punishments. with the billions of people on billions of planets in billions of galaxies - any individual attention you may feel you get would indeed be a miracle. “Mere longevity is a goodthing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement foreternity.”
_Dave O'Connell_ (http://www.users.qwest.net/~daveoc/) In a message dated 1/12/2010 12:43:42 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, [email protected] writes: I definitely don't think God is to blame. We are responsible for our own actions, I just think focusing on who is to blame is useless. By "things happen for a reason" I mean, "things just happen and we should learn something from them and try to make the best of it" If I'm not making any sense it's because I'm tired lol. Night nights :) Lissette Whitehead _www.lissettesgoaltowalk.synthasite.com_ (http://www.lissettesgoaltowalk.synthasite.com/) _www.lwgripgloves.com_ (http://www.lwgripgloves.com/) ____________________________________ From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] WHO is responsible for putting you in a wheelchair... Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:26:35 -0700 I always thought that phrase was trying to defer blame to God yet forgive him because he is God and must have a purpose. I just don’t think God does every little thing “For a reason”. He has more important things to deal with than whether or not I’m in an accident. Like getting a win for my AZ Cardinals in the playoffs. Sometimes it is our own fault. That doesn’t mean we should dwell on it. Of course we should still try to make the best out of a bad situation. I think my injury was caused by me making a bad decision. I was not driving, but I should not have been horsing around like we were. Others had no real input into their injury. Like a disease or getting hit by a car when walking on a sidewalk. Sure you put yourself in that area, but you had no real reason to not think it a perfectly safe area. Fault is a sliding scale, but should never be used as an excuse for not trying to make the best out of what you can still do. Trying to adjudicate blame is a waist of time and energy. Just my 2 cents, Greg ---------- Things happen for a reason and we should try and make the most of it and even turn it into a learning experience. I ____________________________________ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. _Get it now._ (http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390708/direct/01/) =
