Your house must've just gotten gerry-mandered into a new congressional district, cuz you're about to get repped.
To clarify, I wasn't referring to charitable work when I said accomplishments. I would consider charitable work to be "effort", and I see nothing wrong or morally off balance with wanting to be properly acknowledged for those efforts either verbally or through a simple gesture of some kind. That doesn't mean money, gifts, or favors of any kind (which you seem to be insinuating with your "wrong reasons" bull$hit). Invoking a god creates a sense that the charitable work was going to happen regardless because it was an order carried down from on high somewhere. It devalues selfless actions, in my opinion.
"Every faculty you have, your power of thinking or of moving your limbs from moment to moment, is given to you by God." -C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity I'm sure the lady did thank the kids at some point during the process, but she knows that God had a plan for the kids to come help her. It is God who creates and puts forth every human action. No matter how hard we may try to understand God, it is impossible. He is all knowing and all powerful and is always in our lives whether we acknowledge Him or not. Even during tough times, He is testing our faith and molding us to be stronger people. In the good times and the bad, God should always be the first and foremost to be acknowledged. "2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. 4 Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. 6 But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. " -James 1:2-6
yep. God is just fking with her. send a hurricane and destroy her house then send a troop to fix her roof.
