I have written about how important it is to have a positive attitude and concentrate on our blessings. But a Face Book friend who is a wife and mother recently shared how she has found her blessings hiding behind some mundane and tiresome tasks.
“Sink full of dirty dishes – thank you Lord for the food we have to eat.
Food crumbs under the table – thank you Lord for family meals together.
Baskets of dirty clothes – thank you Lord for the clothes on our bodies and shoes on our feet.
Long shopping list – thank you Lord for the provisions we need daily.
Utility bills – thank you Lord for light in the dark and shelter from the heat and cold.
Dirty toilet bowl to clean – thank you Lord for indoor plumbing.”
You get the idea and I’m sure you can add several things of your own for which to thank God. Knowing her, her husband and their children as I do, in spite of the battle to get everyone ready for church on Sunday morning, I know she is thankful to God that she and her husband put God first in their life and love each other and their children as described by the Apostle Paul in First Corinthians chapter thirteen. They worship as a family and the children are learning to love God and each other as they see their parents do. Actions do speak much louder than words.
You and I are quick to praise God for the miracles in our life and all of the obvious other blessings that are the result of answered prayers, but do we look behind the toilsome mundane tasks in our life to thank God for those hidden blessings? When we are tired and weary, we need to take a moment to step back and see that even those efforts are all worthwhile because of the blessing hiding behind each of them. If you don’t think of any miracles in your life, maybe you have forgotten that you are one, knitted together marvelously in your mother’s womb.
I’m sure I have mentioned it before, but it bears repeating; it is much more relaxing to count your blessings than it is to count sheep and it will give you a perfect opportunity to thank God for each of them. When you are a child of God, you will fall asleep before you run out of blessings.