Good morning!
       A friend recently wrote that we spend much more time thinking about our troubles than we do our blessings.  This I found as a personal challenge....how much time do I spend thinking about my blessings compared to my troubles?
      So I started this morning thinking about my blessings.  Here are a few that come to mind:  I was awake, I had slept, I had a nice, warm bed to sleep in.  I could get up out of my bed, I could stand and walk.  There were 2 loving dogs waiting to greet me.  I have a husband who loves me.
     I have food in the refrigerator and a warm cup of coffee.   I have a Bible, or two or three and encouraging books to read and I know how to read.  I have a computer that is working.  I have a daughter who has a summer job and two sons who enjoy their jobs.  They all love the Lord and desire to serve Him.   I have a husband who loves me and provides for me though financial times are tough.
     I have girlfriends who care and who pray for me and my concerns.  I have a loving heavenly Father and a Savior who have given me a clean heart and conscience.  My loving heavenly Father asks me to come to Him with all my cares, He wants me to cast them on Him for He cares for me.  I could keep going but....
    Now I'm starting to feel guilty that this isn't in some perfect order but you get the idea....blessings!  We have so many of them that perhaps the best thing to do would be to start a journal of them, write some down everyday and see how our attitude might change since we are focusing on blessings rather than troubles.
   "Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation."  Psalm 68:19
    "Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors."  Proverbs 8:34
    "Blessed is the man/woman who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful, but his/her delight is in the law of the Lord and in His law does he/she meditate day and night."  Psalm 1:1-2
   Have a blessed day!
Linda