Count Your Many Blessings

A while back I was sitting in church, I don't remember what we were doing exactly but I was singing in my head the song, Count your Many Blessings. At the end of the first verse instead of singing the last line normally I heard the words that are in bold.

When upon life's billows you are tempest tossed

When you are discouraged thinking all is lost

Count your many blessings name them one by one
And it will surprise you what the Lord can do. ( normally it is 'Lord has done')

I sang that like those were the real words, until I realized that the didn't quite rhyme. haha When I heard that it really made me think of my many blessings. The big ones and the small ones that add up to make life wonderful. About a month ago I was really struggling with my brain. I kept thinking about things that I didn't want to think about. Not that they were bad or impure but that they just led me to think badly about myself. It was so difficult to shake them and to stop. Because I am in bed all day I am not able to get up and do something else to distract myself. So I had to use my brain to distract my brain. :) I decided that every hour on the hour I would pray about whatever I was thinking about, and then write down in my journal something that I was grateful for. I told myself I needed to write just one thing but as I would start I just wanted to keep going. It felt so good. And sure enough it really helped me to look at my blessings and put my mind in a happier place.
I know that as we count our blessings when the tempest is raging we will be able to look past the storm and see the rainbow ahead. And we will be surprised at what the Lord Can Do!