Counting your blessings

If you’re feeling discouraged, depressed, or just a little out of sorts, one of the things that can help is counting your blessings. If you’re in a really bad mood, you might need to start with a little blessings, the silly ones, to cheer yourself up first. My silly-reasons list always begins with cheeseburgers!

Remember the words of the hymn, Count Your Blessings:

“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!*

Try it for yourself, it works! The Lord has given us so many things to be thankful for, we'll always be able to find a blessing if we try.

And that’s today’s reason to smile! 😊

*Title: Count Your Blessings; Text: Johnson Oatman Jr., 1856–1922; Music: Edwin O. Excell, 1851–1921