Count your Blessings

This past week at church our sermon was focused on counting our blessings. As I think about this, it again encourages me that taking a trip, specifically a missions trip, out of Canada is important for me. Important for me to grow spiritually. If I, and dare I say you, look at our lives we are amazingly blessed. I feel confident in the fact that I can claim you are blessed for the mere fact that you have access to the internet to view my blog.

I take a lot for granted. In fact I take nearly everything I have for granted. Not purposefully, but in sitting here, and honestly thinking about it I realize I do. I view my possessions as things I have worked to get. But really at the root, the fact that I am ABLE to work is a blessing. The fact that I have had the opportunity to be schooled and to learn to, in my case, be part of a trade is a blessing, and so much more in light of how my post-secondary education was financed. The very fact that I went to sleep last night and awoke to another day is an amazing blessing. Yet I rarely honestly thank God for the smallest things like being able to take my next breathe, let alone the big things, like the job I have or the home I live in. This is a point I am trying to change and realize that I need to consciously focus on remembering.

Our pastor used a term "content versus comfortable" that struck a chord. I am comfortable. Amazingly so when I consider it. Honestly, Comfort is not even considered really, its accepted as a given. Even in our comfort we complain about being uncomfortable. I wonder now, if I were to lose my "stuff" the material things I've acquired over time. Would I be content? I would like to say yes. I believe that I could eventually be, but initially? Could I experience that, and stand back and be content that I still draw breathe, and still have the never ending love of my Saviour? I'm not sure I even really want to answer that.

Count my blessings eh? And here I thought I learned how to count when I was young...