How about you? What good thing is God doing in your life right now? Do you have an immediate answer, or are you like me and you have to think for a minute to come up with something? It’s not that we’re short of blessings in our lives, but perhaps our attention has been turned towards the challenges and difficulties more than the things to celebrate. No one is suggesting that we stick our heads in the sand and ignore the problems, but that we never let them take more of our attention than they should.
As we head into the season where we are reminded to be thankful, let’s get a head start on that. Be intentional to call to mind the blessings in your life. Maybe it would help to write them down, and, as the song says:
Count your blessings, name them one by one
Count your blessings, see what God has done
Count your blessings, name them one by one
Count your many blessings, see what God has done