Count your blessings

[wil]

Count your blessings
Count your many blessings
Count them one by one...

This is the cornerstone of my philosophy.

Whether it was twenty something hungry and broke me hitchhiking around the country.

Forty something recently divorced father of twins me after losing my house.

Or sixty something me laying in recovery of the latest malady that decided my body should host it for a while.

I would think...

Count your blessings
Count your many blessings
Count them one by one...

When I was down it would start with breath...

I am thankful to be breathing...
Thankful to be able to control it...

When it came to lying in pain...
I would be thankful for what wasn't in oain..
I would be thankful I found a way to roll over with only minimal increased pain...or that the pain spike was temporary and in the past, till I had to roll over again

Everytime I step into a hot shower, or sit into a warm tub...

 

[wil]

Count your blessings
Count your many blessings
Count them one by one...

When I put my twins to bed...

Name three things you are thankful for...

Sometimes I would get a long sigh...oh Dad...

Sometimes I would get 3 rote responses...but I didn't care...(cause I know there are times that is all I can muster)

But most times I would be amazed at the responses.

What are you thankful for today?

Count your blessings!