How to Recognize Your Blessings Are you Grateful for Your Life? 13 Blessings You May Be Overlooking

May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, and rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of His hand. Unknown Today's quote is actually just a portion of the longer version which is my favorite blessing.   In my life one of the most comforting things in my life is that I am held in the palm of God's hand.  It is my hope that perhaps that comforts you as well.  Even when the road does not rise up to meet you but takes you down low in the valley, even when the wind pushes against you for a season, even when the sun is covered by the clouds, and the rain comes down in a torrent instead of gently you are held, I am held, by God in the palm of his hand.  You are not just held but in fact you are engraved on his hands.   Engraved implies permanent, so we are each permanently imprinted on the hands of our Maker.  May that bring you comfort no ...

Write your hurts in the sand. Carve your blessings in stone. Jamie the Very Worst Missionary I love the picture this brings to mind.  Sand gets wiped clean and smoothed out by the water and stone is pretty much forever.  So the idea here is to record your hurts, if you are going to do that, in sand where it can be wiped clean and smoothed out and "forgotten" and record your blessings in stone where they can stand as a reminder on the days when the hurts threaten to overwhelm.  In our lives we will have both hurts and blessings and the people who choose to let the hurts be washed away are generally more joyful, fulfilled, and pleasant to be around!  Those who choose to carve their hurts in stone, however, are miserable to be around and miserable themselves.  Why would anyone choose misery as the description for their life?  And it is a choice.  Yes, crappy things happen but we have a choice.  Will we write them in the sand so they can be washed ...