{"id":114672,"date":"2014-01-31T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/114672\/a-new-mantra-or-who-does-an-atheist-thank\/"},"modified":"2014-01-31T10:46:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T15:46:00","slug":"a-new-mantra-or-who-does-an-atheist-thank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/114672\/a-new-mantra-or-who-does-an-atheist-thank\/","title":{"rendered":"a new mantra? (or) who does an Atheist thank?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am trying to be grateful for what I have even if it’s not quite what I want…In some cases this mostly means having something from the Dollar Menu instead of the steak I’d rather have…and I’m OK with this…But I wonder–if not “God” then who\/what do I thank? I kinda believe there’s some kind of force “running” the Universe, just don’t ask me to explain\/describe it…I would imagine the Universal Force doesn’t ask for money, or damn me to Hell for being gay; and I doubt that the Universal Force hates anyone because of the color of their skin…<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

lotsa changes in my Life now, if only temporarily…I’m gonna try to NOT take a nap today…my new phone is loaded with some of the kind of stuff I always envied other people for having…and yet (today at least) it’s acting a teeny tiny bit weird–it’s a technical thing, don’t ask me to explain, just trust me…but I’m grateful that the phone works at all…I really feel like a part of 21st century society now…<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

ADDENDUM–it’s just past Noon and I just finished Lunch…that’s unusual…I DID try to take a little nap, but I couldn’t fall asleep…Tonight after work, I plan to go to Safeway and talk to the guy who does the hiring about getting a job there…unless my Boss (who’s no longer there) put DO NOT REHIRE in my personnel file…If I was a praying kinda guy, I’d pray that I could go back to Safeway…<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

LATER–Ryan told me that first he had to send an e-mail to Human Resources, which they prolly won’t even see until Monday…He said “give it ’til Wednesday” before I check back with him…
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I am trying to be grateful for what I have even if it’s not quite what I want…In some cases this mostly means having something from the Dollar Menu instead of the steak I’d rather have…and I’m OK with this…But I wonder–if not “God” then who\/what do I thank? I kinda believe there’s some kind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}