This no longer strikes me as worshipping a God of small things, the little way of St. Therese or Brother Lawrence, but as making gods of small things, holding up the trivial and the banal and calling it transcendent. To be clear, I use social media every day. But it troubles my conscience to imagine how what I hold up as moments of joy or every day “blessings” might be perceived by the friend who is grieving, or lonely, or heartbroken, the friend who is reaching out for God’s hand in the dark and coming up empty, or the friend who is meeting God in despair while I’m claiming to have met him over coffee. I should be grateful, yes. But beware how quickly an exhibition of gratitude begins to look like self-righteousness, privilege, even naivety. patheos/blogs/goodletters/2014/04/against-gratitude/
Posted on: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 16:03:27 +0000
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