Count your blessings instead of your crosses;
Count your gains instead of your losses.
Count your joys instead of your woes;
Count your friends instead of your foes.
Count your smiles instead of your tears;
Count your courage instead of your fears.
Count your full years instead of your lean;
Count your kind deeds instead of your mean.
Count your health instead of your wealth;
Count on God instead of yourself.
- Author Unknown
My top five blessings are:
- My son's hugs, kisses and telling me that I'm the best Mom!
- My sisters who understand and love me.
- My mother who loves me and my sisters unconditionally.
- Having my beagle pup, Waggy, plus additional pet, Gwenndolyn, Siamese kitten.
- Bonding with new and old friends.
There's more blessings that I can think of. In fact, they are countless! Now, what more can I ask for when blessings never cease to come my way?
This one's my poetry:
Each morning that we wake up is a blessing itself;
Yet, countless blessings come our way unnoticed.
Be still and look at the sunrise, butterflies, flowers or bees;
Close your eyes and listen as the birds chirp or feel the breeze.
Why worry at all about little things?
Why not be grateful for what life brings?
Wouldn't it be better to live by counting your blessings?
Or would you rather live a miserable life without happy endings?
Smile and make someone else happy.
Count your blessings and be snappy!
Help someone else and be the blessing
to everyone around you while you dance and sing!
- Divalicious Pinoy Mom
Do you count your blessings? I would love to hear what they are because it is an honor and a blessing for me to know your blessings.
Daddy Yashiro of Yashirokuru is this week's host of BC Bloggers' Meme. So please drop by at his site to get to know him.
