"So, who are you praying to?" I ask... knowing that he is not a believer."God and Buddha" he said."Buddha lets us talk to anyone".
So what do I do with that?
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Hedging the bets
Yesterday in class a student was talking about his bad luck. In his broken English he was telling us that even though he prayed he has much bad luck. He had lost in playing his xbox games, it had rained when he left the Y so his ride home was wet but the worse was that he had gone to the bathroom and while there realized that there was no toilet paper. To make matters worse, there were no males in the house he could call to deliver the toilet paper since they had gone hunting. He was left with only females which he could never ask to deliver the TP...he got stuck twice not having TP. "Bad-luck, I have to take two showers. But I pray", he wondered.
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But who answers???
Heidi - ! Kings 18 contains the phrase "the God who answers by fire, He is God" (v. 24). Could this chapter be used in some way to answer the question?
~lew
Interesting how so many things can be attributed to God or luck, when really our own actions play a huge part. Twice without TP...well, what do you learn from that? You could check before you go? You could talk with others in the house and come up with a system (or encourage everyone to follow the 'rule') where whoever uses the last piece on the roll puts on a new roll...and if it's not in the bathroom...go find some...
We...and especially youth perhaps...easily neglect the part we play in the results.
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