Counting Your Blessings....

    Count your blessings, one by one.  I would like for you to get out a pen and paper and start writing down as many blessings as you can think of that Christ has given you.  Here are a few of mine:  good health, a running vehicle, a dry roof to sleep under, 3 meals a day, unlimited supply of clean water, 4 healthy children, a wonderful husband, money for clothing and medical care easily accessible.  Some of these were probably pretty similar to yours.
    Have you ever really stopped and thanked God for all of this though?  In James 1:17 it says:

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

    Every gift and blessing is from God!  In the past couple of years we have been stricken with unemployment and a cancer diagnosis in one of our children.  I can honestly say though, the needs met during those trials were blessings handed down from our heavenly father.

    He then provided a job for my husband, a cancer free child and a new home of our own is in the immediate works.  He continues to bless us and shower us with gifts and I will continue to praise Him for them and not praise My works. - CiCi