Last night I watched part of the Dawkins-Lennox Debate on atheism versus Christianity. (Note that the video begins playing when the link is launched, so ensure your volume is set to tolerable.)
I didn’t watch all of the video, because most of the points being made were ones I had heard many, many times. However, Professor Dawkins did make an observation that grabbed my attention: he noted that he could have been born into different circumstances, including being born into a Buddhist or Muslim family instead of one with an Anglican heritage.
Of course I had also thought of this sort of thing before. I think we all have. Perhaps you think of it fairly often, and doing so helps you to be grateful for your circumstances. Or, perhaps, like me, it doesn’t cross your mind often enough, so that we maybe take our circumstances a little too much for granted, and maybe even think of our blessings as all being deserved.
Although these are difficult times, Dawkins reminded me that we have much to be thankful for (although that was not his intention). Any of us could have been born into extreme poverty, or deformed, or with cancer, or with an addiction to the drugs our mother took, or …
Just sharing this with you in case you need the reminder like I did.