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Counting Your Blessings

Istijlál (Majesty), 9 ‘Ilm (knowledge) 176 B.E. - Thursday, October 24, 2019

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Blogging Circle of Friends   (E) A group for WDC bloggers. #1901868 by Lyn's a Witchy Woman

DAY 2530: Use these random words in your blog entry today: touch, proportion, exempt, count, clerk, circumstance, rub, characteristic, use, nightmare. Have fun!

It's Thankful Thursday, the one day of the week set aside for expressing gratitude. Gratitude is a spiritual characteristic, which can be practiced by anyone no matter what their religion is or isn't. Gratitude under all conditions is a component in individual happiness or contentment. Gratitude in adversity changes a person's perspective and makes difficult circumstance a little easier to deal with.

Gratitude
doesn't make us
exempt for sorrow,
instead it gives us something to hold onto.

Count your blessings:
         Do they increase in proportion
                   to the ones you count?

Each day you are blessed
by the touch of the sun on your cheeks.

Does counting your blessings
         decrease the nightmare of depression?

Let you soul be a clerk
         and use your blog as a place to file
                   the blessings of the week.

When you count your blessings
         you rub the dust
                   off the mirror of your spirit.