Count your blessings - name them one by one

Identify that thing that is your obvious struggle today.  Recognize it as your daily challenge and contemplate how you will overcome it, learn from it, become better from it.

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Pray.

Life is not about simply having a series of joyful events that do not challenge you personally. Life is all about learning and growing from your experiences... from opposition.

We save consistent joy for our time in Heaven.

Here - we grow spiritually... we learn spiritually - from those moments of grief, frustration, aggravation, anger, disappointment - from negative experiences. (and do you see how far you've come already??)

From negative experiences we try to reap positive results.

Let life make you better - not bitter.

"I cried because I had no shoes...

until I met a man that had no feet."

(Anonymous)

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You think that you’ve had troubles

and could even name them all?

I wish you’d read some verses, friend,

that tell about St. Paul.

Have you sat in a prison cell

and prayed and sang at night?

Have you been beaten thrice with rods

right out in broad daylight?

Have you had forty stripes save one

five times upon your back?

Have you been shipwrecked several times

so that you have lost track?

Have you been let down from a wall

to get outside a gate?

Have you been stoned or left for dead

by folks all filled with hate?

I know that we have problems

that we face along the way

And aggravations rankle us

and cloudy up our day,

But even if our times are tough

and find it hard to cope

If we will count our blessings

we may find there still is hope.

Now if we count our problems

they just add to our distress

And where we’ll end up if we do

is anybody’s guess.

Be thankful you’re not dodging stones

or in a prison cell –

As you can see we’re might blessed

and things are going well.

(2 Corinthians 11:23-33)