Count Your Blessings

We get cranky when we don't get what we want. We getting frustrated and whiney and unpleasant and pouty because we have forgotten what God hath done, what He has given. I can get overwhelmed by the asking, the saying "No" and the tirade to follow.

So we count. I start with the chorus. . .
Count your blessings
Name them one by one

She replies with a blessing.

We sing
Count your blessings
Name them one by one

I reply with a blessing.

We sing.
We alternate naming them one by one.

The tirade ends.

If you want to hear the song, here it is. Though I remember it sounding so much better in a little church on a hill in WV.