When upon lifes billows you are tempest tossed,
when you are discouraged thinking all is lost,
count your many blessings name them one by one
and you will remember what the lord has done.
This is from a hymn sung at our church. We have had many hardships this year and basically the 8 years that we have been married. This year has been a particularly hard year, and with the economy so bad and going through some of the financial hardships, etc I decided that I needed to teach my children to count their blessings. This morning during school, we took a few minutes, to count our blessings. Just off the top of our heads, in about two minutes, we had come up with 63 blessings. That is alot. I know we could have come up with a million blessings if we had time, but I am so proud of my children that they at least came up with 63 in a couple of minutes. When we are feeling sorry for ourselves this week, we are going to remind each other to ” count your blessings!” and i think it will help us to keep a smile on our face. 
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