I suppose it is ostentatious to say so, but going through the list of all the things I am thankful for today a pattern emerges. It seems that I am grateful for things that have congregated around me as in a river current.
I cannot credit my own strength or genius for this. Instead I count the strength and genius of others within my reach as pure, glorious miracles. I never deserved any of them any more than the flotsam deserves jetsam.
Thus to my mind does God as metaphor become God as reality.
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As is oft cited, we stand on the shoulders of those who preceded us. Add to that, the co-dependency of the “genius of others”.
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I’m going to guess that hard work and good decisions had a lot to do with the things that just floated up to you.
I’m reminded of Jimmy Stewart saying Grace
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