Count Your Many 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 hath done.

Refrain

Count your blessings, name them one by one,

Count your blessings, see what God hath done!

Count your blessings, name them one by one,

And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.

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

When you look at others with their lands and gold,

Think that Christ has promised you His wealth untold;

Count your many blessings. Wealth can never buy

Your reward in heaven, nor your home on high.

Refrain

So, amid the conflict whether great or small,

Do not be disheartened, God is over all;

Count your many blessings, angels will attend,

Help and comfort give you to your journey’s end.

I have never really closely looked at the words of this hymn nor have I understood the time of life they are talking about so fully as I do now.

During this hard season of my life, I don't want to waste a thing. I don't want to walk away not learning anything or forget along the way after this storm has blown over what God did for us back in 2008 when Dan was laid off. So, I have decided that I am going to start "naming them one by one" to show God's faithfulness not only to you guys out there but so that we can look back and see the exact day that God sent another person our way to help us get by. More to share at the end of the day...