Comments on: Better Than You http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/05/better-than-you.html Looking for the 1st century Church in 21st century America Tue, 22 May 2012 03:53:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: Transforming Sermonshttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/05/better-than-you.html#comment-27075 Transforming Sermons Fri, 25 May 2007 20:38:26 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/05/better-than-you.html#comment-27075 <strong>Impervious to grace...</strong> Dan Edelen writes on the seductiveness and danger of thinking, "At least I'm better than you":... Impervious to grace…

Dan Edelen writes on the seductiveness and danger of thinking, “At least I’m better than you”:…

]]> By: David Paul Regierhttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/05/better-than-you.html#comment-26874 David Paul Regier Wed, 16 May 2007 17:24:37 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/05/better-than-you.html#comment-26874 Shhhhh! Humility will kill the blogosphere! Shhhhh! Humility will kill the blogosphere!

]]> By: Dan Edelenhttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/05/better-than-you.html#comment-26804 Dan Edelen Mon, 14 May 2007 15:07:07 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/05/better-than-you.html#comment-26804 Lisa, It's strange how the same disease can manifest itself from both ends. "Woe is me" and "Better than you" are chips off the same old block. Like kids with opposite personalities, they act different, but have the same parent. We in America need to spend more time listening to people from other countries who visit our nation. Those folks see the problems that we miss. They're more rooted in gratefulness than those of us in materialistic America can grasp. Things have been tough for us economically, so we've dialed down much of our spending. Recently, I splurged and bought my wife a digital camera for her birthday. Even as I was shopping, I kept thinking how nice it would be if I could replace my old SLR with a "prosumer"-level Nikon or Canon digital SLR. Then I wouldn't feel so stupid walking around with a 25-year old non-digital SLR around my neck. How ungrateful! I just called the HVAC company to come look at a problem of water collecting in the bottom of my AC unit. It's all too easy to gripe about the problem, isn't it? If only our kneejerk reaction in those cases was not complaining, but thankfulness that we even have air conditioning to make our already cushy lives even more comfortable. Lisa,

It’s strange how the same disease can manifest itself from both ends. “Woe is me” and “Better than you” are chips off the same old block. Like kids with opposite personalities, they act different, but have the same parent.

We in America need to spend more time listening to people from other countries who visit our nation. Those folks see the problems that we miss. They’re more rooted in gratefulness than those of us in materialistic America can grasp.

Things have been tough for us economically, so we’ve dialed down much of our spending. Recently, I splurged and bought my wife a digital camera for her birthday. Even as I was shopping, I kept thinking how nice it would be if I could replace my old SLR with a “prosumer”-level Nikon or Canon digital SLR. Then I wouldn’t feel so stupid walking around with a 25-year old non-digital SLR around my neck.

How ungrateful!

I just called the HVAC company to come look at a problem of water collecting in the bottom of my AC unit. It’s all too easy to gripe about the problem, isn’t it? If only our kneejerk reaction in those cases was not complaining, but thankfulness that we even have air conditioning to make our already cushy lives even more comfortable.

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