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Title: Too blessed - to complain
Post by: soap creek on July 24, 2013, 06:53:00 PM
I read this quote today, and it really spoke to me. It seems to much of the time I hear others or myself complain about things that aren't really all that important. I have a job, a roof over my head, plenty of food to eat, pretty healthy for the most part, and enough money left over after the bills are paid to set a little aside for Trad archery. Yes I would say I am truly blessed, the Lord has been good to me. No complaints
Title: Re: Too blessed - to complain
Post by: awbowman on July 24, 2013, 06:57:00 PM
My camp is named Too Blessed to be Stressed.

I had lunch with one of my sons yesterday and we were reliving days gone by.  We laughed until it hurt.   I thought of how true that saying was.  Fact is we are all blessed!
Title: Re: Too blessed - to complain
Post by: VictoryHunter on July 24, 2013, 07:00:00 PM
Amen!
Title: Re: Too blessed - to complain
Post by: britt on July 24, 2013, 07:43:00 PM
I woke up this morning and everything else is a bonus. And another day clean.
Title: Re: Too blessed - to complain
Post by: northener on July 24, 2013, 07:47:00 PM
Good reminder, thanks.
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Post by: monsterbuck on July 24, 2013, 07:49:00 PM
I tell people all the time. That i'm blessed more than anybody in this world. Roof over my head, great wife and kids. Great friends, and most importantly, a child of the king. Yes God has truly been good to me. God bless ya brother.
Title: Re: Too blessed - to complain
Post by: Flatshooter on July 24, 2013, 07:52:00 PM
Amen to that soap creek.. The ringtone on my cell plays "Lucky man" by Montgomery Gentry. It is a reminder to me everyday of God's goodness.
Title: Re: Too blessed - to complain
Post by: South MS Bowhunter on July 24, 2013, 08:01:00 PM
Thanks for the needed reminder   :pray:
Title: Re: Too blessed - to complain
Post by: Mudd on July 24, 2013, 08:07:00 PM
I regularly tell folks that if I were any more blessed I'd have to take something for it.

If the world knew just how I've been taken care of especially the past 3 years they would share in the "awe" of it.

I think that each person born in this great country should understand just how magnificent we have it.

Even our poor are rich beyond comparison when you see poverty elsewhere.

Thanks for bringing it to the forefront of our thoughts.

God bless,Mudd
Title: Re: Too blessed - to complain
Post by: Sixby on July 24, 2013, 08:09:00 PM
I believe Chris Kristofferson did a song once that said Why Me Lord, What have I ever done, to deserve even one, of the blessings I've known?

I often think on that and it tells me , Nothing. That is why it is so wonderful. The great mystery of all time is this, Why did God love me when I was un-loveable and un-Godley? Again eyes have not seen, neither ear heard the things that God has prepared for them that love Him and that are called according to (His purpose). But his spirit has revealed them unto us. Yea , the deep things of God.
Many of you evidently know what that purpose is and when you see it it is a wonderful thing. God simply wants companionship with people that are like minded to Him. And here is what is so good. He will change our hearts and minds so that we become what He wants. God made a conversion kit and called him Jesus.

What a wonderful Saviour!!!!!!


God bless you all and great thread and posts.

Steve
Title: Re: Too blessed - to complain
Post by: ssoden on July 24, 2013, 08:21:00 PM
Thanks for the reminder .. his Grace is truly amazing to me.
Title: Re: Too blessed - to complain
Post by: Butch Speer on July 24, 2013, 11:56:00 PM
Some great posts here. Sometime you don't know how blessed you are till you look around yourself.
Title: Re: Too blessed - to complain
Post by: Shinken on July 25, 2013, 12:02:00 AM
I see that I am on the same wavelength as awbowman...

ditto on...

TO BLESSED TO BE STRESSED!

Amen.

Keep the wind in your face!

Shoot straight, Shinken

   :archer2:
Title: Re: Too blessed - to complain
Post by: frassettor on July 25, 2013, 05:48:00 AM
Amen!
Title: Re: Too blessed - to complain
Post by: Keefer on July 25, 2013, 05:54:00 AM
Mr. Sines,
I read that quote yesterday as well..My "Daily Bread"...I was thinking how Blessed my wife and I are with our three adopted daughters and also knowing I have friends here on Tradgang that I can relate to as well that feel the same way as I...God Bless,
            Keefers <><
Title: Re: Too blessed - to complain
Post by: rbcorbitt on July 25, 2013, 06:40:00 AM
I, too, am truly blessed!  It is way too easy to get all caught up in the day, or the moment, to realize how blessed we are.

Thanks for the reminder!

Fred, I like your statement

"Too blessed to be stressed!"    :thumbsup:    :pray:
Title: Re: Too blessed - to complain
Post by: Jon Stewart on July 25, 2013, 07:25:00 AM
Made it thru two wars, one overseas and the other here in the states (retire officer). I have a great wife of 42 years, one son and daughter in law and five of the best grandkids a grandpa could ever ask for and even better they are all true Christians.

I to am truly a Blessed man.
Title: Re: Too blessed - to complain
Post by: Gil Verwey on July 25, 2013, 07:42:00 AM
Just to live in the USA we are blessed.

If you can appreciate the simple pleasures in life you will always be happy, because they are the things that really matter most in life.

I saw a documentary on the famine in Somalia a long time ago. A women with twin babies had to decide which to breast feed and which to let starve, since she couldn't feed both. Now that is a tragedy and a big problem.

Yes we have no real problems here in the USA, in most of our lives.
Title: Re: Too blessed - to complain
Post by: paoliguy on July 25, 2013, 09:41:00 AM
I couldn't agree more - I am blessed! Sometimes I wander off and forget that fact - but even then I'm still blessed!

Thanks for the reminder!
Title: Re: Too blessed - to complain
Post by: awbowman on July 25, 2013, 10:56:00 AM
Gil, that bible passage is on my bow.  It's a wonderful, and at the same time humbling, to think of it when I am sitting in a stand in the predawn.  QUIET time is good for counting a man's blessings.

Reminds me of times I sat in a double stand with my sons ........  they thought we were just hunting!
Title: Re: Too blessed - to complain
Post by: hydrasport205 on July 25, 2013, 11:19:00 AM
great post  if we could all stop and look at how much we have been blessed the world would be a better place
Title: Re: Too blessed - to complain
Post by: DennyK on July 25, 2013, 02:45:00 PM
Yes and Amen!
Title: Re: Too blessed - to complain
Post by: leftyfred on July 25, 2013, 05:10:00 PM
Our daily bread is a must read for me each day.  Thanks,
Mike
Title: Re: Too blessed - to complain
Post by: CJ Pearson on July 25, 2013, 09:25:00 PM
Great post.
Title: Re: Too blessed - to complain
Post by: Sam McMichael on July 25, 2013, 09:30:00 PM
It is good to be reminded just how blessed we are. Most of us know this, but from time to time a thread like this brings it back into immediate focus.
Title: Re: Too blessed - to complain
Post by: LoneWolf73 on July 25, 2013, 09:38:00 PM
Say "Thank You" everyday.
Title: Re: Too blessed - to complain
Post by: wigeon on July 25, 2013, 09:40:00 PM
Thanks for the reminder,I needed it
Title: Re: Too blessed - to complain
Post by: Alvey on July 25, 2013, 09:59:00 PM
yes!!thank's for the reminder.
Title: Re: Too blessed - to complain
Post by: Jerry Russell on July 26, 2013, 06:06:00 AM
Sometimes I feel overwhelmed with the blessing that have landed in my lap. Awesome children, grandchildren, making it to retirement and of course to little things that add the spice like hunting and fishing every day I choose and getting to be a part  of other folk's hunting lives through guiding. Life is so very good.
Title: Re: Too blessed - to complain
Post by: longbow fanatic 1 on July 26, 2013, 08:00:00 PM
Well said, my friend. Truly the Lord's blessings abound!