“Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.” Ps100.4 NKJV
I think it a blessing to see life not so much a right as it is a privilege. “It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves.” All creation is the overflow of God’s goodness. His existence has spilled over and created our own. We live, because of Him, have life and breath because He graciously sustains it. And, God has not just made us alive but aware that we are alive. We know that we exist. We are keenly conscious of things like beauty and pain and the innumerable nuances of feeling, and sight and sound and smell. We all have smelled the magic in a babies breath that aroma of life that lingers so close to the spark that started it. God has infected us with life and as His has spilled over into our own, we write poems, a sing songs, and dance, and draw and romance. We are, because He is!
Life is not our right. Life is a privilege. “Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.”
11/20/07 ts
Just me trying to be honest with God.
