Count your many
blessings,—name them
one by one, and it will surprise you
what the Lord has done. Johnson Oatman, Jr., "When upon life's billows you are tempest-tossed" (1897) .
I can still hear my dad, full of gusto, singing this old hymn on Sunday morning as we got ready to attend Sunday School. He had learned the words as a child in his native Scotland, and they stayed with him.
To be specific in our expression of gratitude, and constant about praying from this standpoint, is still a healing idea. Sitting down and counting our blessings, perhaps even making a list of them, can be a great way to bring into focus what is really happening in our lives. Thanksgiving for what God and Christian Science have meant to you and to others is a high tower from which thought naturally sees more of the evidence of Truth and Love, of God's all-encompassing power.
