Count your blessings, not your crosses;
Count your gains, not your losses.
Count your joys, not your woes;
Count your friends, not your foes.
Count your smiles, not your tears;
Count your courage, not your fears.
Count your full years, not your lean;
Count your kind deeds, not your mean.
Count your health, not your wealth;
Count on God, not on yourself.
– Adapted — Author Unknown.

I am a man created in God’s image,

I am a man reborn to serve my Father.
“Your will be done in me,” my spirit cries.
My life has found its dignity and purpose,
I’m not a creature of brute chance or lies.
To Christ my King I yield my whole existence,
Now as His man, I’m destined for the skies.

I am a man appointed by my Savior
To show His love in all I do and say.
His Holy Spirit is my source of power
To live in light and point to Christ the Way.
Lord fill me now and help me seize the moment,
That as Your man, I’ll serve Your cause today.

I’ll be a man who walks with God in worship;
I’ll be a man who walks with men as friend.
I’ll be a man who loves and serves his family;
I’ll be a man on whom God can depend.

Lord Jesus Christ, my King and Commander,
I’ll be Your man, until my life shall end.

– Jack W. Hayford, ©1994, Annamarie Music, Tune: Finlandia.

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THANKS to God for my Redeemer,

Thanks for all Thou dost provide!

Thanks for times now but a memory,

Thanks for Jesus by my side!

Thanks for pleasant, balmy springtime,

Thanks for dark and stormy fall!

Thanks for tears by now forgotten,

Thanks for peace within my soul!

THANKS for prayers that Thou hast answered,

Thanks for what Thou dost deny!

Thanks for storms that I have weathered,

Thanks for all Thou dost supply!

Thanks for pain, and thanks for pleasure,

Thanks for comfort in despair!

Thanks for grace that none can measure,

Thanks for love beyond compare!

THANKS for roses by the wayside,

Thanks for thorns their stems contain!

Thanks for home and thanks for fireside,

Thanks for hope, that sweet refrain!

Thanks for joy and thanks for sorrow,

Thanks for heavenly peace with Thee!

Thanks for hope in the tomorrow,

Thanks through all eternity!

1891 – by August L. Storm, translated from Swedish to English.

August Ludvig Storm was born on October, 1862, in Motala, and converted to Christ in a Salvation Army meeting. He joined the Salvation Army Corps and became one of its leading officers.

Carl Ernest Backstrom, the original text translator pastured Evangelical Mission Covenant churches in Nebraska, Iowa, and Ohio. He translated it for the Covenant Hymnal, 1931.

Thanks to God for My Redeemer