There But For The Grace of God?

[beryllium]

go I?

I personaly don't have the grace of god.

Do you say this sentence? and has it back fired on you?

[Theland]

Yes, I have often used this phrase. I have never knowingly had it backfire on me though.
How about yourself?

[beryllium]

I used this sentence once. And I'm thinking it did back fire on me. Yes.
I was writing for the charity I worked for. A question came up about how we felt about the patients we were looking after. Their pain was my pain and I wanted to take it away.
I walked in their shadows and not in their shoes.
I wrote there but for the grace of god go I.
I got diagnosed with m.s whilst my patients I was looking after had the same.
Therefore I dont have that particular grace.
The reason I have asked this is because I was watching an afternoon tv programme and they were discussing the Maddie disappearance. One of them, a mother, said There But For The Grace of God go I. and it brought back a memory for me.
There, cleansing of this bit of ones soul over. :-)
B. xxx

[WaldoMcFroog]

It's just an expression. I'd say it, much as I say plenty of other expressions with religious derivations (some involving the Lord on a pogostick). If the idiom works, then great. End of.

[beryllium]

I had to give the stars for making me LOL Waldo....
Thank you and huge smiles to you both :-) xxx

[naomi24]

I agree Waldo - it is just an expression. I've used it - especially on a freezing night when I'm snug in bed in my nice comfortable home and I know there are homeless people sleeping in shop doorways. I've been trying to think of another expression that is used to serve the same purpose but I can't. Can anyone?

[wizard69]

years ago I was visiting a friend in prison and I remember thinking "there but for the grace of god"...
Two years later I was been visited in the same visiting room in the same nick...cheers god!

[Theland]

Beryll - Are you cured of your MS or is it a way of life? I know from a friend who has it that in the early stages, he had ups and downs.
Don't know you, but love you and pray for you.
(Yes, it takes a long time every nighjt to get to sleep, remembering all of the people who have needs - friends, family, acquaintences, Israel, Jerusalem, the list goes on and on. You are on my list Berry.)

[beryllium]

Big oops then Wizard eh?
I cant think of any other sayings Naomi, but like the pogo stick one lol....
I have primary progressive m.s Theland, no cure I'm afraid... but there is a new drug in progress. The old ones are not pleasant and I stay with the more natural approach with the blessing of my neuro :-)
I am in a relapse atm, but all is in organised chaos as usual. Animals fed, garden herbs growing.... onions and courgettes needing planting out......
Ask your friend if he has found out about hyperbaric oxygen therapy. It helps some.
Anyhows off now for a nap....
Take care you lovelies and lots of love to you all.....
B. xxx

[Romeo]

Yep, I have seen many a drunk on a kerbside in state of unconsciousness and collapse and have thought 'That could have been me'.