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:date: 2005-05-13T00:00:00
:category: faith
+:tags: Bible, Pollyanna
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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 Polyana” praising God for giving her
-crutches on Christmas. The problem I had with this was it looked so much
+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.