donkey     The Christmas season can be very stressful and many people get depressed as the bills pile up and  one starts to consider what they don't have that others do have. Let me give you some things to reflect on:

  • If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes to wear, a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of this world.
  • If you wake up tomorrow with relatively good health, you are more fortunate that the million who won't be living this time next year.
  • If you have some money in the bank , in your wallet or purse and spare change on the dresser, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.
  • If you can attend church without fear of persecution, harassment, arrest, torture or death, you are more blessed that three billion people in the world.
  • If your parents are still alive and still married, you are very rare!
  • If you have never experienced the danger of battle unfolding all around you. the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
  • If you have ever used a telephone, you have done something that 80% of the world's people will never do.
  • If you can read this blog, you are more blessed that over two billion people in the world who can not read at all.

Count your blessings!  Remember the greatest story ever told, the story of a Savior born as a baby, his birth foretold in Genesis 3:15  to the serpent..."And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."                                                                                                                  photo by telethon

Even after Adam and Eve sinned,  God gave them a glimpse of his plan of Salvation.

 

 

12 Comments on Blessings Test - Count Them Up

Thanks!  It sounds like things I catch myself telling my kids.  Most people really don't know how good we have it hear in the USA

12/19/2007 03:06 PM by John Hersey, E-PRO Realtor (Prudential Bob Yost Homesale Services)

 John - You are giving them truth - We have a great nation and compared to most, extremely prosperous and certainly blessed.

12/19/2007 03:13 PM by Kathleen Lordbock- HSE,RESA,SEA,SD ~Minnesota Home Stager~ (Re$ale Design & Home Staging)

Okay i get the point. We look at the things we have and see them as we are supposed to have them. We don't look at them as a blessing from God. We should.

12/19/2007 04:11 PM by Robert L. Brown~Grand Rapids Real Estate Flexit Realty, West Michigan (www.mrbrownsellsgr.com)

Robert - You do get the point - now have yourself a Merry Little Christmas.

12/19/2007 06:05 PM by Kathleen Lordbock- HSE,RESA,SEA,SD ~Minnesota Home Stager~ (Re$ale Design & Home Staging)

Thank you, Kathleen, for making a wonderful point about recognizing the blessings we have in our lives...even when we don't recognize them.

12/20/2007 12:05 AM by Terry Rasner-Yacenda, ABR, GRI (Dickson Realty)

Thank you Kathleen, we have had a rough time these past few months and most in our family don't even want to celebrate Christmas this year, it has been a battle, BUT we MUST celebrate the HOPE of Christ that lives in us. That is where our main focus should be.

God Bless and Merry Christmas 

12/20/2007 05:07 PM by Phyllis Pafumi-ReStyled to Sell Staging Homes NJ (ReStyled to Sell Home Staging New Jersey)

Kathleen,
Pretty much puts things in prospective, doesn't it?  Most of us are truly blessed and have so much to be thankful for.  Thank you for reminding us.

12/20/2007 07:45 PM by Cynthia Tilghman, Realtor® Onslow County NC Home Specialist (Kingsbridge Realty, Inc)

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, God Bless You

12/20/2007 07:49 PM by Hugh Krone Sussex County NJ Century 21 Realtor (Century21BillSemmens)

Phyllis - When the seas gets rough, we take our eyes off Jesus and start looking at the water.  Stuff happens , hard stuff and  still we have eternal hope in Christ - the scales are heavily weighed in His favor. He never fails, never changes, never lies. My parents died a few years apart (but not long ago) before and after Christmas. The 21st of Dec was my Dad's funeral, my Mom went in the hospital on the 23rd. That was a tough one but we decorated  our tree after Christmas and celebrated all that we had been blessed with, including his long life.

12/21/2007 11:00 PM by Kathleen Lordbock- HSE,RESA,SEA,SD ~Minnesota Home Stager~ (Re$ale Design & Home Staging)

Cynthia - We are truly blessed and every day that we have is a celebration.

12/21/2007 11:02 PM by Kathleen Lordbock- HSE,RESA,SEA,SD ~Minnesota Home Stager~ (Re$ale Design & Home Staging)

Hugh - You are so welcome and I hope that you are fully recovered by Christmas , so the grandkids don't wear you out.

12/21/2007 11:03 PM by Kathleen Lordbock- HSE,RESA,SEA,SD ~Minnesota Home Stager~ (Re$ale Design & Home Staging)

I have seen a version of this before, and it always puts things in perspective very quickly for me.  Thanks for sharing this one.

12/23/2007 10:29 PM by Jason Crouch, Broker - Austin Texas Real Estate (Austin Texas Homes, LLC)

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