Counting Our Blessings....

Counting our blessings - sometimes it's a difficult thing to do amidst all of the tears, heartbreak and sadness but sometimes that the BEST time to start counting them.  

Many days I list all of the things that have gone "wrong". I analyze what I thought should have been "the perfect life - marriage, baby and a baby carriage". Well sometimes it doesn't necessarily work out that "perfect" but God is still at work. Each and every step of our journey is being used to write our own personal testimony and it's those hardest steps that often times teach us the most important lessons. It's those long, difficult, painful steps that encourage us to count our blessings even when they may be difficult to see. I choose to see these blessings and I choose to count them over and over again as I walk in the trenches of my journey....my testimony. 

James 1:2-4

2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.