Count Your Blessings

Count Your Many Blessings

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Count Your Many Blessings

Prior to Christmas this year I took my wife to see the play White Christmas.  I had seen the movie with her before, but we had never seen the play on stage.  During the play one of the songs stood out to me.  It is a song written by Irving Berlin called “Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep)“.  Here are the lyrics from the first part of the song:

When I’m worried and I can’t sleep
I count my blessings, instead of sheep
And I fall asleep
Counting my blessings

I love this simple, yet profound message and have thought of it often since seeing the play.  In fact, it reminded me of another song that we often sing in our church meetings that conveys this same message of peace that can come from counting our blessings.  Below are the words from the hymn “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,
*Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.
[*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.

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
Your reward in heaven, nor your home on high.

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.

What a wonderful message and reminder of the power that is in each of us as we count our blessings and choose to live in a world of abundance rather than scarcity.  Live a life inspired!

~ JBE

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