Sunday, November 30, 2008

Hymn of the Week: Count Your Blessings

Now that the Thanksgiving holiday is over, what better way to continue to be thankful, than to count one's blessings?

Gratitude is a desirable and necessary character quality every day of the year. We must each make a conscious effort, every day, to show gratitude and to have a thankful heart. Hopefully this hymn, written by Johnson Oatman, Jr., will help you to do that.

Count Your Blessings

When upon life’s billows you are tempest tossed,
When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost,
Count your many blessings, name them one by one,
And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.

Refrain

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.

Are you ever burdened with a load of care?
Does the cross seem heavy you are called to bear?
Count your many blessings, every doubt will fly,
And you will keep singing as the days go by.

Refrain

When you look at others with their lands and gold,
Think that Christ has promised you His wealth untold;
Count your many blessings. Wealth can never buy
Your reward in heaven, nor your home on high.

Refrain

So, amid the conflict whether great or small,
Do not be disheartened, God is over all;
Count your many blessings, angels will attend,
Help and comfort give you to your journey’s end.

Refrain

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