Y'know, I'm glad she was able to stop a destructive habit.

[conuly]

Really. But... I don't know. It's always seemed a little arrogant, mihi, to attribute everything good to God. No, really. Instead of being humble (I couldn't've done it without His help!") it sounds more like "God took the time to help me. I'm very special because of this. If you aren't being helped by God, it's because there's something wrong with you".

And something else. If God is running around stopping people from smoking and tanning and eating too much, why isn't he also stopping them from being hateful, robbing the poor, and killing each other? Or aren't those important enough to merit God's personal interference?

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[wakasplat.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It's one of the least arrogant people I know, in fact (my experience in general has been that actual experience of God tends to decrease arrogance dramatically, sometimes in pretty painful ways). The way they described it it sounded like they still could've done the wrong thing if they'd chosen to, but they listened (they were also told what to do instead). So it's kind of like the person in a reply lower down than this said, they could've stuck their fingers in their ears, but they didn't.