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Wednesday 32nd Week OT
St. Luke’s Institute
November 12, 2014
ENTITLEMENT KILLS
GRATITUDE ++++++++++++++++++
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The age of entitlement: we take it 4 granted
that we’ve a rt 2 have needs fulfilled & wishes granted
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Few of us think it extraordinary we’ve a roof
over R heads, a warm bed 2 enfold us & full stomach 2 sing us 2 sleep
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Yet 4 millions on planet, such conditions would
be cause for high jubilation
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We’re so accustomed 2 getting most of what we
want, we‘re progressively losing gift of gratitude
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Result=we make selves miserable, focusing on
lack
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We’re highly skilled in counting R grievances, we’re
fast becoming a culture of complaint
FORGETTING GIFT &
GIVER ++++++++++++++++++++++
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Meanwhile, like the lepers cured in today’s
Gospel, we’re unmoved even by miracles
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Most of us belong to 90% who didn’t return 2 give
thanks 2 God 4 what we’ve received
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Not only do we forget G, ultimate giver of all
gifts, we often forget 2 acknowledge R indebtedness 2 folks around us
GIVING &
RECEIVING +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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All receiving depends on a giving
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People who give do so by impoverishing or
diminishing themselves in order to enrich us
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We owe them our gratitude; it is not optional
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Furthermore, courtesy of giving thanks is a
necessary lubricant of social life, binding persons together in mutual
generosity
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And while expressing R gratitude’s important,
it’s even more important 2 feel gratitude
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Feeling grateful=a sign we understand that
whatever we possess, we’ve received & only reason we’ve received it is someone
else’s given it
CONCLUSION
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Human community depends on this acknowledgment
of mutual indebtedness; w/o it we become chronic complainers
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Where am I on spectrum may B a good question to
ask ourselves today
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