Count your Blessings
Count your Blessings! Recently, I sat for just about an hour, looking out of my window, and enjoying the sunset. You may well have seen similar sunsets, when the sky is pale golden over Arran, and then changes through orange to red as the sky grows darker and darker. It gave me a real boost after a particularly fine day, a real blessing. And that brought to my mind an old hymn, rather out of fashion nowadays:- When upon life's billows you are tempest tossed, Do not be discouraged thinking all is lost, Count your many blessings, name them one by one, And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done. Count your blessings, name them one by one; Count your blessings, see what God hath done; Count your blessings, name them one by one; And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done. We have been through and are still going through quite a tempest. Every news bulletin seems more and more depressing. We thought w