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MONDAY THOUGHT 6/16/08

June 16, 2008 on 11:48 am | By John Ingrisano | In Faith & Forgiveness | No Comments

I am blessed.  I am not lucky or fortunate (those imply happenstance or coincidence, as if there were no God).  I am blessed.  And by the way, I’ve been accused of being one of those privileged white guys, the type born with all the advantages.  That’s true, kind of, but my privileges included a double-header divorce history, massive financial setbacks following decades of 60-hour sweat equity, and the “advantages” of being able to start over from scratch … twice.  Such privileges!
 
I am blessed with one amazing thing: faith!  That means whenever I screw up or get screwed, I believe each is an opportunity to learn, grow, take a few more humbling, stumbling steps along the broken road of my faith journey, every once in a while coming up with an “Oh, now I get it!” bit of understanding.  My blessings are every breath, every day — good times and times I’d just as soon take a detour around. 
 
My point:  Just ask for and accept the blessings God chooses to send us every day.  We don’t have to spell them out (one Mercedes, two cancer cures, one tax refund check).  All we have to do is say, “Lord, I ask for your blessings this day.”  Then take a big sigh, rejoice and enjoy your blessings. — jri
 

“To bless in the biblical sense means to ask
for or to impart supernatural favor.  When we
ask for God’s blessing … we’re crying out for
the wonderful, unlimited goodness that only
God has the power to know about or give to
us.”
        –    Bruce Wilkinson
               (The Prayer of Jabez)
 

Recommended reading:  The Prayer of Jabez, suggested by a friend in Florida, is a small but amazingly powerful book about faith and God’s awaiting blessings.  It takes about two hours to read, but it will be two hours well spent.  God bless.
John R. Ingrisano