Count your Blessings

   THE LORD BLESS YOU AND KEEP YOU; THE LORD MAKE
   HIS FACE SHINE UPON YOU AND BE GRACIOUS TO YOU;
   THE LORD TURN HIS FACE TOWARD YOU AND GIVE YOU
   PEACE!
                        ( NUMBERS 6:24-26 *NIV )

       often when we count our blessings we forget
   many of them.  So today I will share a few with you that
   we never think about

       Now the following was sent to me by one of our
   subscribers, and it gives us even more blessings to count!

                           If you woke up this morning
                           with more health than illness,
                           you are more blessed than the
                           million who won't survive the week.

                           If you have never experienced
                           the danger of battle,
                           the loneliness of imprisonment,
                           the agony of torture or
                           the pangs of starvation,
                           you are ahead of 20 million people
                           around the world.

                           If you can attend a church meeting
                           without fear of harassment,
                           arrest, torture, or death,
                           you are more blessed than almost
                           three billion people in the world.

                           If you have food in your refrigerator,
                           clothes on your back, a roof over
                           your head and a place to sleep,
                           you are richer than 75% of this world.

                           If you have money in the bank,
                           in your wallet, and spare change
                           in a dish someplace, you are among
                           the top 8% of the world's wealthy.

                           If your parents are still married and alive,
                           you are very rare,

                           If you hold up your head with a smile
                           on your face and are truly thankful,
                           you are blessed because the majority can,
                           but most do not.

                          If you can hold someone's hand, hug them
                          or even touch them on the shoulder,
                          you are blessed because you can
                          offer God's healing touch.

                          If you can read this message,
                          you are more blessed than over
                          two billion people in the world
                          that cannot read anything at all.

                          You are so blessed in ways
                          you may never even know.

       So, let us; GIVE THANKS TO THE LORD, FOR
   HE IS GOOD: HIS LOVE ENDURES FOREVER.   Amen.
   ( PSALM 118:29 )