"Count YOUR Blessings"

Being able to see what God has done for us is somewhat difficult for allot of people and not really because they aren't taking time, slowing to smell the roses but they are too busy worrying and looking at others and their blessing to keep eyes and focus on their own.

Focusing on the blessings that God has given to you and building your life on this to grow in abundance is worth far more than worrying about how someone else spends or treats the blessings God has given them.

Building up your own could and would open up an abundance of doors to help people who haven't been blessed or need to be. When you build up your blessing pool then you have placed yourself in a better position to do God's will when you allow all possible ways for you to help his children are open and available or doable.

Keeping up with the Jones' is a perfect example of this problem. What others have or how they treat or apply themselves is none of your concern and having or wanting what others have is a sure fire way to not have anything. What others have isn't usually what you need anyway.

Patience and giving more and wanting less, pays out way more and you end up with something out of it much better than you could have ever imagined.

Give when you don't have it, and you will. People have a lot of trouble tithing to the church these days because they think they can't afford to, well you can't afford not to. If you don't have a church to give to, find a legitimate charity or local organization to give to. To give to God in the bible demands a tenth of your earnings give as close as possible. Round up not down or you might as well not bother. I feel that if you give to somewhere, be it a church or the less fortunate, your giving to God as long as your helping the children of God and not yourself. He will take care of you if you take care of others first, and this does not include immediate family.

Being a care giver is defined by someone who cares for a child or an invalid, your independent adult children do not count in this. Being a giver doesn't count when the recipients are in the same house or on the same plot of land, they can take care of them selves.

To be a care giver or a giver of yourself, you must project these attributes on the helpless or the ones just needing a little step up. If your family can take care of them selves because you have raised them well and they are grown, you must realize this and let go, your job there is done.
Your gifts and generosities are needed elsewhere.

Count your own blessings not everyone else's, give till it hurts, and love what God has done and given you to be able to do his will.

GO DO IT!