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Counting each and every blessing

Once you start to journal your blessings it becomes not only easier to spot them, but easier to get into the practice of thanking God for them.

THE ADDITIONAL NEEDS BLOGFATHER AUTOR 242/Mark_Arnold 17 DE MAYO DE 2024 12:26 h
Photo via [link] Additional Needs Blogfather [/link].

As a parent of a child with additional needs, and especially as a dad, I so often need to be reminded of the importance of counting our blessings each and every day.



Each day is rich with blessings, but we can often miss them, or dismiss them, without realising how important they are.



I have journaled my blessings before, writing down three or four blessings that I can remember at the end of each day.



[destacate] Each day is rich with blessings, but we can often miss them, or dismiss them, without realising how important they are [/destacate] It might be something as seemingly trivial as James happily going up to bed, or that we’ve had meals to share during the day. It might be something like a meeting about James’ care that went well, or that we saw a friend who helped us.


We can see God at work in all of these blessings, it is clear to see them when we look, and once we start looking out for them it becomes easier to spot them.



How about you? Do you look for those blessings? Do you give thanks for them? Do you write them down so that you can remember them?



It is a great practice to get into! Once you start to journal your blessings it becomes not only easier to spot them, but easier to get into the practice of thanking God for them.



If you say “I can’t think of any blessings right now, life is too tough”, I get that, I have been in that place too. Sometimes we are so overwhelmed by the tough stuff that it is all that we can think of.



But try to get into the habit of spotting the blessings too, even little ones, and you will start to find it easier to identify more.





Once I wrote as one of that days blessings that “We have all got safely to the end of the day”, and sometimes that is important to celebrate as a blessing too!



Try thinking about three things to give thanks for today. Write them down. Do it again tomorrow. You will soon get into the habit of identifying those blessings.



And on the tough days, when everything seems to have gone wrong, look back through the blessings you have written down on the good days and be encouraged by them.



As Ann Voskamp write in her book One Thousand Gifts, if you think of three blessings you have received each day for a year, then you have over a thousand to look back on from that time.



[destacate] On the tough days, look back through the blessings you have written down on the good days and be encouraged by them[/destacate] As you can see from the images in this blog post, I have still got my journal from 2017 and into 2018, a particularly difficult year for us, and the blessings I wrote down then still encourage me today.



Why not make a start on your own journal today?



Maybe one of today’s blessings could be the inspiration to start identifying and writing down your own blessings, journaling them so that you can look back on them in the future, as I do mine, with thanks to God for all that he has done, and still does, to bless us and help us.



Mark Arnold, Director of Additional Needs Ministry at Urban Saints. Arnold blogs at The Additional Needs Blogfather. This article was re-published with permission.



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