Count Your Blessings
~

Count your Blessings
Instead of your Crosses

Count your Gains
Instead of your Losses

Count your Joys

Instead of your Woes

Count your Friends

Instead of your Foes

Count your Smiles
Instead of your Tears

Count your Courage
Instead of your Fears

Count your Full Years
Instead of your Lean

Count your Kind Deeds
Instead of your Mean

Count your Health
Instead of your Wealth

Count on GOD
Instead of Yourself


* I came across this sweet reminder in one of our sales catalogs the other day at work and just thought I'd share it with y'all. So, I can't take credit for the poetry... however, the sweet (albeit off-center) picture of the beautiful water lily is one of my own!! Enjoy! *

All Is Well

The white of Winter
Now wears a shawl of green
For all the trees are budding
And flowers can be seen.

The snow that chilled us yesterday
Has melted like a dream
For now the stone is rolled away
Beneath the sunlight's gleam.

How sweet the sound of Spring
As songbirds now return,
And here below the rainbow
Earth makes another turn.

For Spring's a noble season,
One of show and tell,
When God reveals His Majesty
And shows us all is well.


~Poet, Clay Harrison

Mary's Lamb

Mary had a little Lamb

His fleece was white as snow.

And everywhere that Mary went

The Lamb was sure to go.

He followed her to school each day

T'wasn't even in the rule.

It made the children laugh and play

To have a Lamb at school.

And then the rules all changed one day

Illegal it became.

To bring the Lamb of God to school

Or even speak His Name!

Every day got worse and worse

And days turned into years.

Instead of hearing children laugh

We heard gun shots and tears.

What must we do to stop the crime

That's in our schools today?

Let's let the Lamb come back to school

And teach our kids to pray!