Counting Blessings By The Ton

Hello again!! This post, as you could probably already tell by the name, is about blessings. Just recently I have begun to count my blessings. Oh, and when I say that, I mean, like, really count them. I always have, but I've just realized how blessed I really am, how really blessed we all are. Like, take for instance, when I first realized this little tidbit. I was baking biscuits. Oh joy. But seriously, baking is fun. Especially when you're trying to find out what temperature Maryland Biscuits should be baked at, and all the Fannie Farmer cook book recipes were originally made for wood stoves. I think that's all they had in 1896. I also think that they have the recipe somewhere in that vast deathtrap I like to call The Web, but I'm too lazy to look up the temperature to cook them at. Now, back to blessings. I was looking for a ruler to measure out the dough(before the whole temperature incident), and after I had looked for ten minuti non-stop, I finally found one. It was pink. So I measured it, and guess what?? It was exactly 1\4 of an inch all the way around. Congratulations!! You've just won the prize!!! I know what you're thinking, big whoop, she got the dough 1\4 all the way around, whatever; but then it got me thinking, what if it was too thick?? Then I would have to spend another three minuti getting it to be the right thickness. But what if it was to thin?? I would have to do the same thing, except fold it over before. Now, that wouldn't really have been a huge inconvience, but not everything needs to be big, now does it?? What if all the little things in life went wrong?? Maybe the coffee has stinkbugs in it(happened to my grandma... sad day in the Granny household), or we're out of tea(that is huge, to me, at least), or maybe a lightbulb going out, or the cd player ran out of batteries. When stuff like this happens, we think, why? But if you really stop and think about all the little things in life that don't go wrong, what do you end up with?? You probably aren't blind, you can probably walk and talk, you can think, you can read, you can probably hear, you can taste stuff, you can feel the wind on your face, you can do all this stuff that some people might not be able to do. You probably live in a free country, where you can go to the library and pick out books, go to the store, the movie theater, all this stuff that some people never experience. You probably have both arms and legs, all of your fingers and toes. And tiny stuff, too, like that door being open when you were carrying that huge box, or if you can drive, finding your keys, having the phone charged so you can answer that important call, the light bulb not going out on you, the coffee bug-free, having some tea left, the cd player not running out of batteries, or that broken window that you so desperately need to fix falling on your head and not knocking you out and breaking something(personal experience).  All those little things that don't happen. I was trying to explain this to someone the other day, but i don't think i put it into the right words. I think that this might be one of the rare things in life that you can't put into words, it's just not possible. You have to figure it out for yourself, and I hope that you do.