Count your blessings...

This will age me, but I remember when I was growing up singing the song, "Count Your Blessings", out of the old red covered hymnal while sitting on the church pew and swinging my patent leather shoed feet.   While this song may be unknown to the current generation, its truths are timeless.

Count Your Blessings-by Johnson Oatman, Jr.

1. When upon life’s billows you are tempest-tossed,
   When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost,
   Count your many blessings, name them one by one,
   And it will surprise you what the Lord has done.
   • Refrain:
     Count your blessings, name them one by one,
     Count your blessings, see what God has done!
     Count your blessings, name them one by one,
     *Count your many blessings, see what God has done.
     [*And it will surprise you what the Lord has done.]
2. Are you ever burdened with a load of care?
   Does the cross seem heavy you are called to bear?
   Count your many blessings, every doubt will fly,
   And you will keep singing as the days go by.
   
   
   Refrain:

   Count your blessings, name them one by one,
   Count your blessings, see what God has done!
   Count your blessings, name them one by one,
   *Count your many blessings, see what God has done.
   [*And it will surprise you what the Lord has done.]
3. When you look at others with their lands and gold,
   Think that Christ has promised you His wealth untold;
   Count your many blessings—*money cannot buy [*wealth can never buy]
   Your reward in heaven, nor your home on high.
   
   
   Refrain:

   Count your blessings, name them one by one,

   Count your blessings, see what God has done!

   Count your blessings, name them one by one,

   *Count your many blessings, see what God has done.

   [*And it will surprise you what the Lord has done.]
4. So, amid the conflict whether great or small,
   Do not be discouraged, God is over all;
   Count your many blessings, angels will attend,
   Help and comfort give you to your journey’s end.
   
   
   *alternate text
   
   
   In all of life's circumstances, counting my blessings has helped me to see what God has done.  What a blessing this practice has been to me.
   
   
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   Since 2009 I've been counting my blessings thanks to the prompting of Ann Voskamp.

    I continue to count my thanks

   piling up gratitude day by day

   in my journal.

   (and capturing some of my blessings via my camera or iPhone)

   #9607-#9631

   
   

   3-20-17-

   -the first day of spring!

   -a lovely walk

   -a fun dinner with my brother, nephew and his family, and youngest daughter and her husband

   -God working in my loved ones

   -more encouragement from my sister telling me what God is doing in her son

   
   

   3-21-17-

   -a beautiful day-totally unexpected sunshine

   -a writing project completed

   -a fun refinishing project

   -God at work in our lives

   
   

   3-22-17-

   -Nana school with my sweet grandgirlie

   

   -reaching my daily step goal in spite of the rain cutting my walk with my granddaughter short

   -golden sunset and puffy clouds

   

   3-23-17-

   -a sweet time of prayer

   -lunch with a friend that I haven't seen in too long

   -sweet worship and prayer night at church

   
   

   3-24-17-

   -Friday date day

   -my favorite tomato basil soup

   -watching a favorite movie together

   -my hubs surprising our oldest granddaughter with the new converse shoes she wanted

   
   

   3-25-17-

   -a productive morning

   -a fun evening watching the two youngest grands

   -our youngest granddaughter helping me decorate her mama's birthday cake

   
   

   3-26-17-

   -our oldest daughter's birthday-how we thank God for her!

   -God's work in our church

   -family dinner to celebrate our daughter's birthday

   

   
   

   still following,