I'm so Blessed!

A woman tells a friend she's struggling with the death of her daughter 5 years before. Her friend listens and is comforting and later tells her husband "We are so blessed! Our kids are healthy!"

A man tells a friend of his wifes struggling health and the friend says, "We I don't know about any of that, I've been blessed so far with our health."

A teen from the burbs working on an urban mission plunge to Houston says, "The people have nothing. They were born into bad families, or bad circumstances that have molded them in negative ways or attempted to hold them back. I'm just so blessed to live where I live and to have the family I have!"

What does this say about how we view God?
What does this say about how we view ourselves?
What does it say about what value?

It seems our blessings are often connected to how we are doing materially. or more importantly how we feel about our place in the world.

Someone once said something like this to me. "We've just been blessed!"
I wanted to say... "I guess God hasn't blessed us."

But this kind of theology is .... (pause) um.... ugly.
posted by riddle at 12:34 PM | |