Counting Our Blessings.

[IWMP]

That’s really sweet. I’m probably going to add family prayer into our sit down to eat routine. There’s nothing wrong in my opinion with being a practicing non believer. I’m all for my kids making their own choices, and family prayer is a very familiar cultural touch stone for me and my wife. If morning else it’s good practice to be mindful and thankful even in a secular way.

Yeah. It was nice to see that they are quite thankful when not asked to be thankful.

[IWMP]

My son has been offered a place in the minster choir. Email below. He wants to do it but it clashes with something else. So he is thinking about it. I think it's amazing. I honestly thought this kid would be going down the science/maths route but he's just naturally following music.

[Jersey Girl]

My son has been offered a place in the minster choir. Email below. He wants to do it but it clashes with something else. So he is thinking about it. I think it's amazing. I honestly thought this kid would be going down the science/maths route but he's just naturally following music.


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Note: Music IS math. Congrats over there to O!

[ajax18]

I love the thread titile. Our prophet has advocated an attitude of gratitude. To me counting your blessings is the best medicine for depression.

[IWMP]

I love the thread titile. Our prophet has advocated an attitude of gratitude. To me counting your blessings is the best medicine for depression.

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It helps. If we focus on things we can't control or things in the past that no longer have room in our lives it can easily swamp us. Not to say people shouldn't think about it or deal with things but fixating can be damaging.

My blessings today are that I have not had to deal with difficult behaviour at all. The kids have been very pleasant today. Decorated the Christmas tree. Took a long time for me to get round to doing it because I was waiting for new lights.

[ajax18]

It helps. If we focus on things we can't control or things in the past that no longer have room in our lives it can easily swamp us. Not to say people shouldn't think about it or deal with things but fixating can be damaging.

God can turn even the most painful and unpleasant things into a blessing for us.

[IWMP]

It helps. If we focus on things we can't control or things in the past that no longer have room in our lives it can easily swamp us. Not to say people shouldn't think about it or deal with things but fixating can be damaging.

God can turn even the most painful and unpleasant things into a blessing for us.

Probably if you want it. You can probably skew how you perceive things or look deep enough to find something of value. There is a lot of beauty in the world. I guess, one of the biggest blessings that comes from having painful and unpleasant experiences is that you come out the other side generally and have survived. You can have a survivor mentality or a victim mentality. I know it is far more complex and you can't just tell a person who hasn't dealt with their trauma to be a survivor instead of a victim because really they are both but perspective makes a massive difference. But again, you have to heal to be able to choose which perspective you want to look at.

My siblings and I had very different experiences but all within the same general "victim" scope. Some had worse experiences than others and yet the damage caused varies dramatically and isn't relative to those experiences. I think I am the least damaged and the most positive and the most stable, but I may have experienced the most abuse but I have a feeling things happened to others that they haven't shared so it's hard to know. But I definitely believe life is relative. People can grow up in a wonderful family with no relative significant traumatic experiences but still be suffering from trauma. What is traumatic for some isn't for others. Which means that it is subjective.

[ajax18]

You can probably skew how you perceive things or look deep enough to find something of value.

Perhaps you could but that's not what I'm talking about. All things can work together for our good for those that love and put their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus's life did not end at His death and neither does ours. But I'd agree with you, if that were not true, the only way to make Elder Gong's statement from general conference that I quoted true would indeed be to skew things. In eternity there is no skewing necessary. Everything is accounted for, all wrongs will be recompensed, and we'll then say, "Was that all we had to go through for so great a reward as this? Was that all?" That includes my ancestors who had one of their legs sawed off due to their wounds in battle and then had no choice but to learn to work one legged if they wanted to survive. Their reward is heaven is far greater than anything they had to suffer here on earth.

[IWMP]

You can probably skew how you perceive things or look deep enough to find something of value.

Perhaps you could but that's not what I'm talking about. All things can work together for our good for those that love and put their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus's life did not end at His death and neither does ours. But I'd agree with you, if that were not true, the only way to make Elder Gong's statement from general conference that I quoted true would indeed be to skew things. In eternity there is no skewing necessary. Everything is accounted for, all wrongs will be recompensed, and we'll then say, "Was that all we had to go through for so great a reward as this? Was that all?" That includes my ancestors who had one of their legs sawed off due to their wounds in battle and then had no choice but to learn to work one legged if they wanted to survive. Their reward is heaven is far greater than anything they had to suffer here on earth.

When you put it like that, I get what you are saying. That sounds nice.

[drumdude]

4 weeks to go and the baby is still perfectly healthy. No small blessing!