Who was the first person to say count your blessings? It must have been a long time ago. And over the years, like with all things, the meaning gets trampled down and overlooked.
So let’s start again and spend time counting them, looking at them, seeing what they are. It may be many people have similar blessings but we know that not everybody is blessed with the same. And what is a blessing? What’s implied in the word blessing is that whatever one is blessed with – that blessing comes from outside.
If we could control everything then we could say it’s not a blessing; it’s my characteristic and I started it and I begat it and I control it and I decide whether it exists or it doesn’t exist
And we know this isn’t true.
We have a choice to say we are not victims but rather we are recipients. We are the receivers and if we receive we must receive from outside and where the outside is, well that’s a different question and we don’t have to think about it now.
But we can recognise a blessing is what you are blessed with and we can take a moment to stand still and feel the outside; we can all do that.