My friends, count your blessings and don’t live to regret. Johnson Oatman was a Methodist lay preacher and an administrator for a large insurance company in New Jersey.

The hundred blessing tradition gives this phrase an entirely new meaning. Count your blessings. Center your day around ensuring you have blessed G-d enough times to fill your entire day.

Have you ever thought about where the water comes from that allows you to wash your hands, get a drink, or water your plants?

And the reminders to “count your blessings.” Yup, they warm my heart. My children and grandchildren get these “blessing” reminders throughout the year, but especially at Thanksgiving.

One. Two. Three. Four. Five. That could be you either counting your blessings or losses. Whenever you look back at how 2024 has been to you as December approaches, you should decide what to count ...

With the holidays just around the corner, our readers share the blessings in their lives.

What Inspired Johnson Oatman Jr. to write Count Your Many Blessings? Oatman wrote it to remind us to focus on God’s blessings and grace and to encourage gratitude even during hard times.

If you are fortunate enough to enjoy family, friends and a decent standard of living, then you should count your blessings and spend time assisting those folks in a tough situation.

There is something about what linguists call the “iterative aspect” implicit in the archaic language which serves the concept of blessing more accurately than the cruder tenses and aspects that we use ...