Count your blessing

Have you ever had to guess how many Jelly Beans were in a jar? Some kids would count the ones they could see, other kids just guessed at numbers not having a clue how close they were. Sometime I feel like one of those kids that didn’t have a clue when it comes to counting just how many blessing I have? You can’t see them all; you just know there are a lot of them. Well, to make matters worse it is hard to be grateful for blessing that you have a hard time counting. So here is my plan. First we count the ones we can see. It makes it easier; we just count the red ones first. Then the black, before long we have some idea how many we can see.

Now back to blessing. Blessings are gifts from God. We have the “red ones” that we often overlook until they are not so easy to get. Air, unless we have asthma. Beautiful mountains and sky are blessing, unless our vision is fading and it become a blur or worse. Flowers and trees unless we have allergies. A walk in the neighbor unless our legs are not doing so well these days. Friends, shelter and food are among the staples of life that are always there; unless a disaster hits. Then we count the black ones; we find it easier to count medium size blessing like our health or our work or a good home, family and friends that loves us. Then the ones that are hard to see; some of the smaller ones often slip between the cracks like the still small voice that helped something not to happen. You never know because you responded. Or the helping hand that was no big deal, it was just there when you needed it; and then things went on with out a hitch. It is hard to judge when a burden is being made light. It is hard to know when the path is prepared before you. It is more obvious when it is not happening. But even that is a blessing. Remember that,” this thing shall be for they experience and for they good.” Those hard things must be blessing in disguise. I recall the quote that when the Lord doesn’t want to be quoted it is often told by anonymous. The timing of how thing work out are blessing that are hard to track, just appreciate. So now that we lost count and have to start all over maybe we just want to err on the safe side and be grateful for the Love that is in all of these little and big things. We need not lose our blessing to appreciate them, we only need to say think you. The world and all its beauty were given “to us to gladden the heart and please the eye.” So when these blessing don’t brighten our day then we must have lost count and need to start over. Just a thought.