Counting My Blessings: #6

In case you’re just join­ing me, here are links to my first five blessings:

• Bless­ing #1 — Con­nec­tion to Nature and Uni­ver­sal Truths
• Bless­ing #2 — The Husband
• Bless­ing #3 — My Health
• Bless­ings #4 and 5 — My Children

It’s near­ing 10pm.  The kitchen is spot­less, the left­overs stored in the ‘fridge, and everyone’s wan­dered off to do their own thing until bedtime.

We enjoyed a very pleas­ant, very peace­ful Thanks­giv­ing cel­e­bra­tion this year with just the four of us.  On Tues­day we all chimed in to cre­ate the menu:  pork chops, can­died yams, arti­chokes, and but­ter­milk bis­cuits with an apple pie for dessert.

As always, The Hus­band got up and went to work this morn­ing.  I slept in — until noon!!  I’m not sure I’ve ever slept that late in my entire adult life.  Appar­ently the kids woke up only an hour or so ear­lier than I did.  Once up, how­ever, I went straight to work and cooked and baked and peeled apples for nearly 6 straight hours.

When it was finally time to eat, we blessed our meal (with two bless­ings, no less) and enjoyed a lively con­ver­sa­tion and a leisurely meal.  After din­ner, we watched a movie together — tak­ing a mid-movie break for apple pie 

Today’s bless­ing, #6, is my circumstances.

I have a roof over my head, a fur­nace to keep me warm, a refrig­er­a­tor and cup­boards full of food, hot and cold run­ning water, two cars in the dri­ve­way, clothes in my clos­ets, and shoes for my feet.  And money in the bank.  I have every­thing I need and most of every­thing I ever dreamed of wanting.

I am blessed by my circumstances.

I think about peo­ple who have so much less than I do or who strug­gle with bur­dens that would crush me and I won­der why I’m so blessed.  I don’t know the answer, but I’m grate­ful nonetheless.

If you’ll indulge me, I’ll con­clude my Thanks­giv­ing Day Counting-My-Blessings-#6 post by shar­ing both of the bless­ings our fam­ily said over our meal:

For health, and strength, and daily bread
We give our thanks, Oh Lord.

Earth who gives to us this food
Sun who makes it ripe and good,
Dear Sun, Dear Earth, by you we live
Our lov­ing thanks to you we give.

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