#thanking god

[walkswithmyfather]

Amen! 🙏🕊️🙌

Source: walkswithmyfather

[prayersource]

Prayers wrote in ink

thank you Lord for poetry

in so many words

you have given me to think

of your eternal presence.

.

D W Eldred

[troubledontlast1]

First miracle of the day is being alive today.

Thank You, LORD.

[gothhcake]

me today

[spoiledcadet]

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

From “Born Again Again” - “Episode 29: How Atheism Is Different Than We Thought”

(From 2019)

Joe: Since Thanksgiving is coming up, I kinda wanted to talk about how being an atheist has made me so much more appreciative.

Katie: Ah, that's a good way to wrap this up, Joe.

Joe: As Christians, I think we gave so much credit... we like took credit from people and gave it to God, all the time, when it was actually just people.

So, like, at your dinner table on Thanksgiving, make sure that you make it a point to really thank the people who actually made the food. Like, thank your mom for spending hours, like, preparing and thinking about Thanksgiving and cooking the food.

As opposed to sitting down and being like, "God, thank you for giving us this food." But actually, God didn't do anything.

Your parents worked for the money, you worked for the money, the workers, the farm workers, like, planted the seeds, the whatever people came and harvested it, and there's people who drove it to the store, the people at the store who put it out, you know, like, it's people who gave you that stuff.

Katie: Amen.

Joe: Amen.

[dramoor]

“The secret of happiness is to live moment by moment and to thank God for all that He, in His goodness, sends to us day after day.”

~St. Gianna Beretta Molla

(Photo © KDH Telluride, Colorado)

[atheostic]

When I was around 7 (give or take) my atheist af mom and I were travelling and stopped at this cute little rural nunnery to look around and buy handmade cookies.

While chatting with one of the nuns, my mom learned she had been blind for decades but had not always been so and no doctor had been able to figure out why she had gone blind. 

Having a background in medicine, my mom asked her to describe how she went blind. Based on what she was told, she gave the nun the number of a colleague of hers from medical school who had become an eye doctor who specialized in rare cases. 

A few months later she received a call from the nun, who had heeded my mom’s advice and called the doctor. 

She could see again.

The nun probably ultimately credited God for her ability to see again (believing my mom to have been sent/guided by God to lead her to call my mom’s doctor friend or what have you).

But people crediting God for the actions of doctors is so common that doctors often just assume that’ll be the case. 

They do what they do anyway despite expecting their hard work to go unrecognized because it’s the right thing to do.