Weeziana said:
I often hear people say how "blessed" they are when something good happens to them. A neighbor of mine says how "blessed" her family is that they are healthy. This frustrates me to no end. So, does that mean that your god blessed you but not the family around the corner with a toddler with terminal brain cancer?
i thank it is a blessing, when my dad had cancer my family was really close something like that brings people to geather makes them stronger, no matter what the out some, some lessions in life are not easy, some are.
Does this mean that your god picks and chooses who he blesses and lets others become ill and other die?
we are only give the challages that we can handle, some things that happen to me might be for someone else. there is much happyness in the world, but people seem to not care and go on, God dose love and bless all of his children, were the one that walk away from him. "if you found yourself farther from God who moved? It wasn't God." we make the destions our self. take Joseph sold to ejypt for exaple he went though very hard times, did he thank God cursed him? no he went on with faith...
sometimes we ask ourself that, but theres another question that comes after this one it is more important. what are we doing here? and were are we going?
It's basically the same to me when someone asks you to pray for a loved one or ill person. Would your god let someone die because no one prayed for them?
people are appointed to death at a certain time, how that person dies in life no one knows... "My son, peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment; And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes. Thy friends do stand by thee, and they shall hail thee again with warm hearts and friendly hands." [Doctrine and Covenants 121:7-9]
I'm curious to see what those of different beliefs feel about this topic. What do you think it is to be blessed and what does it mean to you. For the non-believers, what do you think when someone says this? What does it say about "God" to you?
to me life is a test, to follow God or not there are many things that we cannot explain many that we can. why is it that a tornato one of the most power things on the earth can lundge a straw into solid brick and take an egg and place it on the ground with no scrach on it? people belive what they wait to belive weather it is the true or not, for the most part they want the easy way out... but at the end all people seek something they can neather see nor touch... i belive that a kind and gental person will have many blessing that can and cannot be seen, like a new car vs. peace. some of the most important blessing to me are not things of the world but the closeness of my parents that is more important than anything in the whole of the world, out of everything there the one that are going to stick it out, we all have choices so make them good ones and never regreat anything!!!
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