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when life is going well, and too little when it isn't.

When someone wrote to me, "Thank God everything worked out," I wrote back, "Everything worked out because I worked it out -- so thank me, too!"


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I make it a point to be grateful that I wake up in the morning, and am grateful every day for the many blessings in my life. Making a gratitude list every day is a spiritual tool I learned when I got sober 9 years ago. But I don't babble "Thank you, Jesus" every minute, either.

I never 'Like and Share" if Jesus is your Lord pages on Facebook. It just doesn't feel right to me.

But most of that is internal. If something really good happens to me, I'll send out praises on facebook, but I won't tell why.

I think some feel like it is evangelizing when they praise Him often, and they're probably just in a habit after doing it so often. Even as a die-hard Christian myself, I don't think the constant praising does much for evangelizing. I prefer to pray for and with people.

Augustine of Hippo wrote, "I should pray as if everything depended on God; I should work as if everything depended on me."