I recently posted a blog on Cat and Dog Theology.  My cat lives out of a sense of entitlement, or having rights to things.  My dogs live more out of a place of gratitude, where all is gift.  In my life, do I live out of a place of gratitude or entitlement today? In today’s society it is so easy to feel entitled or to feel we have rights to things – to a good job, a family with a couple kids, 2 cars, a house.  You know, the American dream.   Maybe you feel entitled to a life of happiness without pain or suffering.  Tonight, I have been focusing on…

I have been meditating the last few days on the following verses: Romans 8:32: “Since He did not spare even His own Son but gave Him up for us all, won’t He also give us everything else?” John 15:16:   “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.” Do I really believe God will give me all things?  As I began to meditate on these verses and reflect on when God has provided or not provided the things I asked for, I realized…