We Are Blessed-RJD#9

Journal entry from May 12, 1998

(I had a project to make a visual aid for bulletin board to highlight a missions project.)

I worked on the solar oven visual aid for our project for Haiti. One of the missionaries there, Della Land, had invented and written about these ingenious sun-powered ovens. They were vital to the Haitian families.

1.) Haiti had no trees. The people had to cut them in order to have charcoal to cook with.

2.) The charcoal supply had been exhausted.

3.) Electricity is so terribly expensive.

While I worked on my model, I was thinking, We are blessed

Later that evening I found myself thinking

Again how we are blessed. I made the following entry into my journal.

We Are Blessed

We are blessed. . .

           

            If we know God as our personal Savior,

            If we have a roof over our heads,

            If we have clothes to wear,

            If we have gas or electric stoves,

            If we have a few close friends,

            If we have a few good memories,

            If we or someone close to us has been healed of disease,

            If we have good neighbors,

            If we have someone to laugh or cry with us,

            If we can see beauty,

            If we can hear laughter,

            If we can shed tears,

            When we can enjoy God’s creation,

            When we commune with God himself,

            When we pause and listen to the birds,

            When we watch children play.

            When we watch animals run to and fro,

            When we pray for another’s need.

            We are blessed because God loves us, and shed His grace upon us because of that great love.
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