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Power of praise
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:date: 2005-05-13T00:00:00
:category: faith
:tags: Bible, Pollyanna

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    The point of this book (Merlin Carothers, “Power in Praise”) is not
    to be polyannish, but to praise God **where we are**, and not to
    praise him when (and if) we will be **where we want to be**.

I have always had a problem with this praising God for everything and in
all situations by a “virtual Pollyanna” praising God for giving her
crutches on Christmas. [#]_ The problem I had with this was it looked so much
like denial and against a personal vocation of truth and reality.
However, the truth of this praising is actually all about seeing the
reality of this actual God in this actual real life situation and
conditioning our praise on satisfaction of our desires.

.. [#] (Added later) Dear Pollyanna, I am sorry, I haven’t read the book
    or seen the movie then, so I didn’t know then that in reality it is
    not that stupid as I was told it is.