Today you will spend solitary moments of conversation with yourself, either listing your complaints or counting your blessings. ~ Tripp, Paul David. New Morning Mercies (p. 242). Crossway. Kindle Edition.
Why is complaining so easy?
Tripp’s response is, they’re
easy because sin still causes us
to make it all about us.
Because sin really
is selfishness at its core,
we all still tend
to shrink our worlds down
to the small confines
of our wants, our needs,
and our feelings.
What about
counting your blessings, though?
We’re leaving out sin, selfishness,
wants, needs, most feelings…ours
as well as those we perceive in others…
running through a field,
gulping in fresh air, smelling flowers,
listening to children laugh,
even sitting alone and remembering
such times!
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