Count Your Blessings, But . . .

Fine. You can count your blessings. Be happy about them. Be thankful for them. Enjoy and benefit from them. But . . . can you count how many times you may have shared your blessings? Did you make a promise to get those blessings? Have you made good in fulfilling that promise? Granting that you got what you want, is it being put to good use? Or are they being kept selfishly with so much indifference to the plight of those who may also be in need of what you have - in excess.

Not all blessings are material or tangible in nature. It may be - good health, renewed relationship, being safe, or simply, being at the right time and at the right place. Of course, you must offer a prayer of thanks for having been blessed with good things that come to you. But . . . have you changed your ways, attitude, character, or lifestyle? So that you would not find any need to ask for good health since you are leading a clean and healthy lifestyle; that you may always have good relations with your spouse, family, peers and people around you; that you would not in any way put yourself at risk, or oh yes, certainly, absolutely, and as a matter of course, that you would not be at the wrong time and at the wrong place?

So the bottomline is this ... "as you count your blessings, your good deeds must be more than what you are and what you have."

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