What does it mean to say "I am...?"

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BeyondET

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I am what I am and that's all that I am.
 
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zeroturbulence said:
I just figured out a song we can sing about this!! :D

Sing with me... (to the tune of Mary Poppin's Supercalifragilisticexpialadosia...) :rolleyes:

♫ PenteCharisMatholicLutheristAngliBaptist... ♫ PenteCharisMatholicLutheristAngliBaptist... ♫ PenteCharisMatholicLutheristAngliBaptist... ♫ PenteCharisMatholicLutheristAngliBaptist... ;)

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When hubby was in the hospital, he really wanted someone to talk to about God. He has no memory of two months of his life because of a heart attack that should have killed him.

They had two chaplains. The first one was a Catholic priest who liked to explain the color of the sash he was wearing. The second describe herself as a Bapto-Anglo-Pentacosto-Calvinistic-Methodistic buddhist, zen, etc.. Or, basically she embraced any belief a patient had. If you know anything about Calvinism and Methodism, you'd know that is an oxymoron. Doubly so, once you add in eastern religions.

Hubby had no one (but me) to talk to about God and he had a whole bunch of reasons he wanted to talk to a pastor. He didn't talk to either of them because he didn't have the strength to evangelize yet. And he needed the strength he could have used by talking to a fellow believer who wasn't his wife. (I count. But he is also head of the house, so it's not like talking to a guy on equal footing with him. And I hope that doesn't start a whole debate, because I'm not going there.)

Titles very much matter.
 
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When hubby was in the hospital, he really wanted someone to talk to about God. He has no memory of two months of his life because of a heart attack that should have killed him.

They had two chaplains. The first one was a Catholic priest who liked to explain the color of the sash he was wearing. The second describe herself as a Bapto-Anglo-Pentacosto-Calvinistic-Methodistic buddhist, zen, etc.. Or, basically she embraced any belief a patient had. If you know anything about Calvinism and Methodism, you'd know that is an oxymoron. Doubly so, once you add in eastern religions.

Hubby had no one (but me) to talk to about God and he had a whole bunch of reasons he wanted to talk to a pastor. He didn't talk to either of them because he didn't have the strength to evangelize yet. And he needed the strength he could have used by talking to a fellow believer who wasn't his wife. (I count. But he is also head of the house, so it's not like talking to a guy on equal footing with him. And I hope that doesn't start a whole debate, because I'm not going there.)

Titles very much matter.
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its sad isn't it, that at a person neediest, there are no Spirit filled born again
Christians to be available. Got to hand it to the (presemably) non saved chaplains, at
least they were willing to give it a go.

Maybe this is more indicative of born again Christians who are failing to rise to the
challenge. I suspect that it may also be political correctness where a hospital thinks
a "jack of all trades" religious person is better able to be a chaplain than a Christian.
 
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Miri said:
its sad isn't it, that at a person neediest, there are no Spirit filled born again
Christians to be available. Got to hand it to the (presemably) non saved chaplains, at
least they were willing to give it a go.

Maybe this is more indicative of born again Christians who are failing to rise to the
challenge. I suspect that it may also be political correctness where a hospital thinks
a "jack of all trades" religious person is better able to be a chaplain than a Christian.
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Veterans Hospital, so they really do have to squish as many hats on to one chaplain's head as possible. I had this feeling the woman was a Christian. (She was this tiny little woman that you just wanted to stand up, salute, and Yes-ma'am all over the place, because of her enthusiastic, yet determined presence. :eek:) Still, it matters. John and I don't believe in the "God couldn't help that 9/11 happened" God. Even his heart attack was preordained. And when you're feeling helpless, someone telling you "God didn't mean that to happen" would have been worse for him than anything, because our big question is the Big Question. "Why, God?" We both know the answer, but to have that confirmed and to talk to somebody, (other than me, since he knows what he gets from me lol), by a chaplain would have done him a world of good.
 
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