Count Your Blessings One by One

Heard this song on the radio today and it couldn't have come at a more perfect time...

"Blessed Be Your Name

In the land that is plentiful

Where Your streams of abundance flow

Blessed be Your name

Blessed Be Your name

When I'm found in the desert place

Though I walk through the wilderness

Blessed Be Your name

Every blessing You pour out

I'll turn back to praise

When the darkness closes in, Lord

Still I will say

Blessed be the name of the Lord

Blessed be Your name

Blessed be the name of the Lord

Blessed be Your glorious name

Blessed be Your name

When the sun's shining down on me

When the world's all as it should be

Blessed be Your name

Blessed be Your name

On the road marked with suffering

Though there's pain in the offering

Blessed be Your name

Every blessing You pour out

I'll turn back to praise

When the darkness closes in, Lord

Still I will say

Blessed be the name of the Lord

Blessed be Your name

Blessed be the name of the Lord

Blessed be Your glorious name"
-- Matt Redman

It's been one of those weeks and thank goodness they don't come all that often. Where to begin...Made it a point to do something nice and it got shot down, work is unbelievably slow but there are still bills to pay, two dear friends are dealing with serious health crises in their families, the fast-approaching weekend will mark the date I lost my dad, about at my wit's end dealing with my husband's night shift...all adding up to a severe lack of sleep.

Oh the list could go on and on!

When I heard this song earlier, it definitely helped brighten my outlook. My Jesus knows what my soul needs.

There is nothing that happens in my life that isn't already under His feet!

How grateful I am to Him for His grace that I most definitely don't deserve.

It seems so carefree and easy to praise God when things are going good...Everyone's healthy, everyone's happy, bank account's well-padded, etc. BUT - It's in those not-so-good times that my true colors come out and I will be the first to say, they're not always pretty.
Funny thing is, God is the same whether things are looking up or whether things are looking down. HE NEVER CHANGES....The one thing in my life I can count on without a doubt.

Thank you Jesus for my blessings - Too many to even count!