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“Count Your Blessings… name them one by one.” Go ahead, take 30 seconds and sing a line or two. Here’s a little help. (I’ll wait)

When upon life’s billows you are tempest tossed.

When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost.

Count your many blessings, name them one by one.

And it will surprise you what the LORD has done.

Count your blessings, name them one by one.

Count your blessings, see what God has done.

Count your blessings, name them one by one.

Count your many blessings see what God has done!”

There now, don’t you feel a whole lot better?

Mom would often sing this song at bedtime while rubbing my back. She knew expressing gratitude aloud is a counter-offensive against greed’s grip on the heart. Gratitude reverses the slide into selfishness, because it is founded upon God’s Goodness and Love....