I try not to take anything for granted, even the shower I take. For fifteen years the house I lived in had no shower. I still remember that back then the big thing about staying in a motel was it would have a shower.
It is so easy to take your most basic freedoms for granted until you are in a situation when you lose them. It happens in jails (which I never was in) or in hospitals.
I still remember although it was almost forty years ago I needed permission for almost everything. To make a telephone call, to take a shower to take a walk, almost everything.
So I cherish my simple freedoms a little more although there are times I forget this. Everything is by grace. I keep coming back to this. Everything is by grace.
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It is so easy to take even the simplest things for granted. I took a shower this morning and I had to remind myself this was something I should be grateful for. For fifteen years not that long ago the house I lived in did not have a shower just a bath tub. That was the big thing when we traveled — the motel always had a shower. I forgot about that and silently thanked God for my shower. It is so easy to take even the smallest freedoms for granted–like being able to take a shower in your house.
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