What are you most grateful for?

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(21 February 2013, 21:16)MaryN Wrote: My lovely OH who has stepped up to the plate for me more times than I can count!

I count mine doing that just once....continuously, since the day we met!!!

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(22 February 2013, 00:14)HideandSeek Wrote:

(21 February 2013, 18:01)Mortblanc Wrote: 1. peace of mind based on my religious convictions.

Sorry I love looking at philosophy and religion, can I ask what you mean by this? don't mean to intrude on private beliefs and if you feel I am just tell me Mortblanc.

I'm a Christian, so I'll give my answer. Bare in mind that if you don't believe the same, that doesn't matter. The idea is to try to understand the other person's point of view. If you don't understand that, there is no need to make a show of your (not directed at you H&S, just everyone on the forum) inability to empathise with a conflicting view to your own.

For me, my faith as a Christian empowers me with surety of action. It guides me in situations morally. Comforts me the same way a parent does in times of suffering. Strengthens me in my desire to help other people. Emboldens me to try and save another person's life. And relaxes me when death is knocking at my door, knowing (through faith) that it is not the end.

If you believe God guides you, then the strength you have is increased hugely through love. Love causes the adrenalin rush in the grandeparents that bend car doors to rescue grandkids from burning cars (I'd have opted for using the door handle haha), love makes protecting someone 100x more important. Even the Tarahumara who run 100 miles a day....everyday....do so because they love to run.

Laugh all you want, but if your car has crashed into a freezing river, you want someone with love trying to rescue you, instead of someone that quits because their reason/purpose isn't enough of a reason to die for.