Grateful Monday - by Maryanne Grimmett

Remember this song?  We sang it in Sunday School.  Sing it with me now.  “Count Your blessings.  Name them one by one.  Count Your blessings.  See what God has done.”

Even as I type this, I’m singing that old chorus…waaaay too loud and most definitely off-key.  People around me in the McDonald’s parking lot, where I’m snagging internet connection with my car windows rolled down, are beginning to stare. 

Oh, well.  Perhaps they’ll internalize two things about me.  First of all, granted, I can’t sing.  At all.  But, secondly—and far more importantly—I am blessed.  As in blessed beyond measure.

Today, as I work on the Uplands website, proof blog posts and Teen Camp documents, plant grass around my house, pot plants, and throw pottery, my goal is to be continually counting my blessings…and naming them one by one.  I anticipate a dialogue with God that goes something like this:

“Lord Jesus, thanks for this beautiful day.  Thanks for my amazing family.  Thanks for my faithful husband.  Thanks for a dependable vehicle.  Thanks for two arms, two legs, two eyes, and two ears.  Thanks for a house that’s warm in the winter and cool in the summer.  Thanks for Uplands Reach.  Thanks for old friends and new friends and friends yet to be made.  Thanks for Your Word.  Thanks for knowing me and loving me anyway.  Thanks for listening.”

That’s just the abbreviated version.  The truth is, I could type blessing after blessing…and my laptop battery would die long before I was finished.  God has been good to me.  And you know what?  I have a feeling He’s been good to you, too.  Let’s make this Grateful Monday and get busy thanking.