Count Your Gains Not Your Losses As we travel down life’s busy road Complaining of our heavy load, We often think God’s been unfair And gave us much more than our share Of little daily irritations, And disappointing tribulations. We’re discontented with our lot And all the “bad breaks” that we got; We count our losses ... not our gain, And remember only tears and pain. The good things we forget completely When God looked down and blessed us sweetly. Our troubles fill our every thought, We dwell upon the goals we sought; And wrapped up in our own despair, We have no time to see or share Another’s load that far outweighs Our little problems and dismays. And so we walk with heads held low, And little do we guess or know That someone near us on life’s street Is burdened deeply with defeat. And if we’d but forget our care And stop in sympathy to share, The burden that our brother carried, Our minds and hearts would be less harried; And we would feel our load was small, In fact, we carried no load at all. ~ Helen Steiner Rice ~
Posted on: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 15:29:44 +0000
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