We will be convening here at the ZigZag café, Suisse, on Thursdays for conversation and dialogue. I invite you to stop by every Thursday for the question of the day. Your thoughts and participation are most welcome. Pull up a stool, avec un café, un thé, ou un chocolat chaud, et un croissant, and join in here on Thursday at the ZZ café.
For today:
What are you thankful to God for?
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10 comments:
My wife!
Lukas,
Thanks. Good person to be grateful to God for.
Among many things, L'Abri!
Thanks. I can join you in that.
There are tons of things I am thankful for and even more I do not know, where I should be thankful.
Still I do not always give my thanks to God. This is probably one of the main things missing in so many lives...
Thank you for the reminder!
Whenever I opened my lips to give
thanks for that which from God had descended
the face of the other suddenly ascended
sadly asking in his grief:
What you give thanks for
I did never receive
What should I give thanks for
tell me please.
And whenever I named
a gift he had gotten
another face exclaimed:
Then I am forgotten!
Lukas,
Yes, it's so easy to slip into the status quo or taking things for granted. Saying thank you can be forgotten, so we all need reminders from time to time.
Sisyphos,
Thanks. Surely, there are many elements that make up your poetic scenario and some of them seem true. Yet, we live in a world that's not our own. As a result of the choices of countless others/selves, we could be numbered among the seemingly forgotten, though this may not be the end of the story.
Late. As usual. Deliberately working my way through the Hebrew scriptures, I am thankful that I cannot fully comprehend God.
Carter,
Thanks. No doubt a worthwhile challenge to work through the Hebrew Scriptures. And so true, that we could not handle a comprehensive knowledge of God.
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