When I start to formulate my needs I get caught up on one question: "Why do I exist in the first place?" In other words, what is the rational basis for my own existing (rather than, say, my father, who was a better person than I am -- why is he dead and why am I alive?)
But there is no rational basis. I can't find one. I can't find a basis for my existing in preference to another being. I can't find an objective basis for my existing as opposed to ... not existing.
So it's all a gift then? It's not "grace like rain" falling on someone who is already there. The "grace" is that I am standing there in the first place, under rain or anything else. Merit doesn't enter into it. As far as merit goes I would not have made the cut. Existence is grace -- you can't give another reason.
This doesn't take away the needs I have but puts them into context. They are the needs of a creature that isn't necessary.
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