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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP you have no understanding of what being Blessed means.

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Can you explain it to me?  As a parent whose child died after a long and painful illness, when someone tells me they are “blessed” with healthy children, I feel like they think God decides to give their kids the privilege of good health and decided differently for my kid.

As the wife of an Afghanistan veteran who is currently worrying about interpreter friends he left behind who are in fear of their lives, when people say they are blessed to be Americans do they mean God chose those different paths?

I am asking this as a Christian who hates the phrase.[/quote]
DP.. I'm so sorry for what you went through, and also for your DH for the worry he is going through now.

I posted above about Job vs Joseph.

Why does  God "bless" some people but not others? Why does  he let good people and babies/children suffer, while seemingly evil people reap rewards?

That's an age old question. I have no answer. No one really does. There are no good answers.    There are stories throughout the Bible of this kind of thing, where some people were blessed while others were not.   It makes no sense to me, either.

But when I say that I am "blessed", I am saying that everything I have is from God.  I guess just acknowledging the things that God has provided for me.

When I have gone through troubled times, yea, I didn't feel blessed.   I don't know.. someone once said that in order to understand compassion and appreciate the good, you have to go through hardship and know what the bad is.   I guess it makes sense, but when you are in the midst of the hardship, this is a hard thing to swallow.[/quote]

Those who are blessed will be judged as to how they use their blessings.  It does not mean they are favored; that is reserved for the afflicted.
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