“The single most important decision any of us ever have to make

is whether or not to believe 


we live in a friendly universe.”

Albert Einstein 

If you need help deciding, then….

Periodically, count all your blessings.  A good friend who devotes much of her life to caring for her beloved yet disabled husband painted this picture for me: she was driving home from friends’, about 45 minutes from Sandpoint, and realized she needed to lift her own spirits, given the suffering she witnesses around her, both at home and work.  

She started counting her blessings, and when she got to town, 45 minutes later, she was still counting!     How many of us can say this?    This friend radiates joy, even though most of us would consider her lot in life quite challenging on many fronts.

With many us of us adjusting to new levels of change and challenge, we might pull a page from the playbook of friends like Judith, who have faced extraordinary challenge for a long time.

It’s a whole new take: counting all our blessings can carry us into whole new terrain – with healthy doses of grace and gratitude.  Some blessings catch us by surprise, and we may take a moment to see them as such, while others unfold with the rhythm of the sun.  Yet we can count them all.

So..when you count all your blessings,  how high can you count?