I heard this saying on a Christian radio station and it really caught my attention. If blessings were raindrops, how wet would you get? I started really contemplating and visualizing this concept. How wet would you get? I bet most of us would be wetter than we think. There are probably many people who think blessings are only big and/or tangible things. While that can be the case, I believe we have so many blessings that may seem small or insignificant until we don't have them.
For instance, if you are a healthy person i.e. no chronic illnesses or body pains, you don't think much about it until it happens to you. Then if it happens to you, you realize how good you had it because now those things have altered your life. Perhaps, you had a good job and life was going great, then the economy changes and you had to rearrange your lifestyle; perhaps getting rid of cable TV, internet, cut back on going out to eat, etc. We take for granted getting home safely until someone rams into you out of nowhere.
I think, myself included, when we pray and thank God for our health, our job, our family, etc., we sometimes make our thankfulness so broad and say it almost as a habit that we don't really think about how big of a blessing it is. Therefore, many of us take a lot of things for granted.
Let's make a list of blessings that may not seem big but really are blessings:
* a family who loves you
* parents or loved ones who are still alive
* an air conditioner or heater in your car or even having a car
* the ability to afford getting you hair cut and fixed
* having a roof over your head
* the ability to see or hear
* the ability to read
* the opportunity to have a child
* having food on your table even if it is a peanut butter sandwich
* the ability to walk or run
* a pillow and a blanket
I could go on and on. Think about your life. Ask yourself "if I didn't have this or that would I still be blessed"? How wet would you really be if your blessings were raindrops?
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