So many times we get caught up in our daily lives and with what we are doing, and we just forget to think about our blessings. We complain when things do not go our way (so guilty of that) and we take what we have for granted. We say we are too busy to take a break or to just breathe. I mean, have you ever heard the saying, "Take time to stop and smell the roses?" I've heard it many times. So, I decided to stop and count my God-given blessings, and here are just a few of them.

1. I have a place to call home.
2. I have a warm bed to sleep in.
3. I have a beautifully decorated bedroom.
4. I have three meals a day.
5. I have clean water to drink.
6. I have a loving grandmother who raised me.
7. I have many siblings.
8. I have a group of people I can call family.
9. I have more than enough clothes to last a lifetime.
10. I have shoes on my feet.
11. I have a place to shower and be clean.
12. I have air conditioning and heat in my home.
13. I have a job.
14. I have a great boss.
15. I have a high school diploma.
16. I have been given scholarships to be debt free for college.
17. I'm in college.
18. I have a great support system.
19. I have a car.
20. I have money to spend freely.
21. I have an amazing boyfriend.
22. I know what love feels like.
23. I know what pain feels like.
24. I have some of the greatest friends I could have ever asked for.
25. I have a faith.
26. I can freely practice my Christianity in the United States.
27. I have the freedom to choose what I want to become.
28. I am going to be a godmother to two great girls.
29. I have strength.
30. I have knowledge.
31. I have wisdom.
32. I was raised to have a kind heart.
33. I can do community service.
34. My hip injury has healed nicely.
35. I was blessed with beauty.
36. My family is middle class.
37. I have not experienced poverty.
38. I have good health.
39. I have a good metabolism.
40. I do not get sick often.
41. I woke up this morning.
42. I get to sleep every night in my own bed.
43. I am loved deeply by others.
44. I believe in God.
45. I believe in blessings.

All of those. All of those blessings. I did not even realize as I was writing this that those things were blessings. It is seriously amazing to just stop and think about the things we have all been blessed with in our lives.

I just stopped on my lunch break at work to think about it. I came up with 45 blessing in 20 minutes. Imagine if we take five minutes every night before we all go to bed to just think about the blessings we received today, I'm sure there would be at least eight things a day for me that I could think of instantly.

So stop and count your blessings daily, and be grateful for everything you have been given in life. Each good thing is a blessing, and each bad thing is blessing, because they all came from God.