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  COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: Counting your blessings is a powerful way to cultivate a spirit
of gratitude and deepen your faith in God.

Topics: "Gratitude And Thanks", "Christian Joy"
Scripture References: Deuteronomy 8:2, Psalm 107:1, Philippians 4:6, 1 Thessalonians 5:18, James 1:17

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Mary Wilder Tileston preaches about the importance of remembering the
way in which the Lord has led us, emphasizing the need for gratitude and
thankfulness for the blessings that remain despite the challenges faced.
She highlights the significance of counting our mercies rather than our
trials, rejoicing in God's gifts, and maintaining a bright and happy
soul that finds reasons for thankfulness and gladness in everything,
even in times of sickness, bereavement, and death.

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Thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee.

--DEUTERONOMY 8:2

NOT mindless of the growing years

Of care and loss and pain,

My eyes are wet with thankful tears

For blessings that remain.

--J. G. WHITTIER

THE years of available and happy life which have been already enjoyed
ought to be the cause of thankfulness, even if "the days of darkness"
were many. "The sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things,"
says Tennyson. Surely, in the sphere of Faith, at least, there is some
mistake here. "For what we have received the Lord make us truly
thankful."

--JAMES SMETHAM

A bright, happy soul, rejoicing in all God's gifts, seeing cause for
thankfulness and gladness in every.thing, counting up mercies rather
than trials, looking at the bright side, even of sickness, bereavement,
and death--what a very fountain of goodness and love of Christ such an
one is! I remember one who, worn with sickness and sleepless nights,
answered to the question if the nights did not seem interminable: "Oh
no, I lie still, and count up my blessings!"

--H. L. SIDNEY LEAR

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/count-your-blessings/
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