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Phrase: Count your blessings
The next time you’re feeling stressed out or a little depressed because it seems like the whole world is against you, count your blessings.
In other words, try to be grateful for what you have because, as my father told me in one of his moments of clarity, “No matter how bad your life is, there’s always someone who has it worse.”
Now, I can’t remember what he said precisely, but he said something along those lines.
If you woke up this morning, you should be grateful for that because many people did not wake up.
You may have lost your job recently, and that is pretty devastating, but some people have lost more than that.
One of those people could be someone you know.
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Life is going to throw things at you, and God is going to test you.
When you feel like everything is against you, take a moment and count your blessings.
You may have your health, live in a peaceful country, have a wonderful spouse and great kids or the weather is beautiful today.
Once you start to look on the bright side of life and begin to count your blessings, you’ll run out of fingers and toes pretty quickly.
Sure, you can feel hard done by and walk around with a long face looking for other miserable people – misery loves company, we all know that.
Believe me; life is too short to dwell on what is going wrong in your life.
We all have problems, both big and small.
If you don’t have a problem right now, good for you!
Tomorrow may be a different story.
Stay positive, count your blessings and remember no matter how bad your situation is, there is always someone who has it worse.
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