Counting My Blessings
God has been so good. I have recently started trying to count my blessings after coming out of a stage of discouragement and hardships in my life over the past semester. It has been my goal to start recognizing and thanking God for the many ways He has blessed me and as I started out I found myself thanking Him for the usual: health, an incredible family, a great school, loving friends, a wonderful boyfriend, amazing grace, salvation, and the like. But as I continued this thought process I realized I have seen God’s grace and mercy in my life in tangible ways that I would say I am grateful for, but didn’t totally stop to recognize and thank the Lord for. I know I won’t remember all the specific situations, but I want to share a few of the big things I have seen God do recently. First of all, the source of much hardship was the loss of my wonderful, wise, loving grandfather in August, and the passing of my equally amazing grandmother just two weeks later. Their deaths were somewha...