'Just Rewards (2)'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
You offer up your suffering to God in thanks for him sacrificing his son on the cross for our sins. And the priests were always willing to remind you just how horrible Jesus' suffering was, in gory detail!
It meant that you sucked it up and shut up. Nuns loved that phrase a lot, too.
I hate to interrupt, but:
Cincinnati Reds 2010 NL Central Champs!!! Come on postseason!!!
Platitudes:
When my mother was in a car accident several years back and wound up with permanent nerve damage to her rotator cuff, several people said to her "God must have been looking out for you," meaning that she was lucky to be alive. She always asked them WTF God was doing for the three seconds before the accident that he couldn't have prevented the guy who hit her from running the red light in the first place.
Cincinnati Reds 2010 NL Central Champs!!! Come on postseason!!!
Walkoff home run no less! Sit down St. Louis!
My aunt and I talked about just that. She had a short term terminal diag, she'd say she was dying quickly. But she wasn't dying of cancer; she was living with cancer until it killed her.
I grew up with the YA novels that were all battle against cancer! But for some of us, some like my aunt, the idea of living with until it could be chased out out or get the final say, appeals more. Because she didn't lose a battle. The other roommate just took precedence. It had nothing to do with her. Stupid ass mutating cells that don't pay attention to poison or pure will.
Cincinnati Reds 2010 NL Central Champs!!! Come on postseason!!!
Walkoff home run no less! Sit down St. Louis!
There is joy in Mudville tonight.
Oh, quester. That brings back memories. My mom used to tell me "offer it up", too.
Today has been another day of not much accomplished. The Internet is mostly to blame.
I have to sit down and think through this week's Bay Area trip so I can remember anything I need to pack, charge, buy or otherwise prepare for.
You offer up your suffering to God in thanks for him sacrificing his son on the cross for our sins.
I don't get it. Suffering as a gift? How do you do that? However, "suck it up and shut up", I get.
Catholic logic does not fit reality.
Basically, nothing we suffer can ever be as great as what Christ suffered. So, you think about how much he suffered and offer your suffering up to him as a thank you gift.
~ma to Jilli and Sox!