"Write your sorrows in sand...
Write your blessings in stone."

The above message hangs on the store's wall, and I saw it just this morning.  It's a small plaque that isn't for sale.  It's there for decoration and inspiration to the clients that pass through.  The more I thought about it the more profound it became to me, and I knew I should share it with you.

If I were to actually do this, I would need a world of stone and just a tiny, tiny seashore.  For one of the many results of prayer to God Almighty, is that He eases our sorrows.  Just like messages written in the sand, as we pray our sorrows become less visible, and our blessings become more apparent.    While we lose sight of one, we gain sight of the other.  One is softened:  eventually erased... the other revealed.

Looking at my blessings right now, I'd say they are like grains of sand on the seashore.  There are too many to number, and it would take more than a lifetime to do so.  But, I shall say the very first entry on my "blessings" list, because it is the most amazing blessing of all, is the fact that I am loved.  I may not carve it in stone, and I may never again make it to the seashore, but I am here right now, and I shall take this opportunity to write it and to tell you.... I am loved, and so are you!

Counting my blessings,
Cindy Lou


"But God demonstrates His own love for us in this:  While we were still sinners, Christ died for us."  --Romans 5:8, Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV)

"Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends."  John 15:13, Holy Bible, NIV

(Written five years ago, and still counting my blessings...)
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