Beginnings of blessings

I've been reminded a lot this week about a song I came to love in High School.  "Life is Good" by LFO.  As I've remembered it different times throughout this week, it's made me think about how many stinking blessings I have in my life and how I've been so selfish not sharing them with others.  Blessings are meant to be shared people!  And since it's definitely time to start this little bloggy blog back up again, here's a chance for me to kill a few birds with the same stone.  Re-start my blog, inform the world of my goings-on, spill my thoughts onto screen, and attempt to share a few of my blessings...  
There is an LDS hymn entitled, "Count Your Blessings".   When I was on my LDS mission in the Philippines my Filipino lovers would always say that the lyrics to the song should really say, "SHARE your blessings."  I completely whole-heartedly agree. Aren't blessings exponentially increased as we share them with others?  Some of the lyrics from "Life is Good" will help me as I try to share a few of my week's blessing with you:
"What would you do if you wake tomorrowNo more sorrows, your dreams came trueSo knock on wood and cross your fingersNow count (or share) your blessings, it's up to you"
Had some of those sorrows this week but literally on the morrow, my dreams came true.  Blessings counted for sure!  Like how I got my dream job to be a teacher at the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah.  Can't believe I'm going to get to paid to try and take a small part in preparing the Lord's valiant missionaries to go out into the world and share the truth of the Gospel.   "knock on wood and cross your fingers" that I can do what He needs me to do.  So what do we do when those times happen in our lives?  If we wake and find we weren't just dreaming, but our dreams are reality.  Like Cinderella, that the wish our heart made has been fulfilled.  Do we just brush it off and keep going or do we count it a blessing and pass it on?  I want to do better at counting and sharing my blessings.  Count your blessings.  It's up to you!
Just a quick count of some of my blessings today:1. Friends2. Clean apartments3. RAIN!4. Playing sports5. Laughing til it hurts6. Ridiculous music videos7. Sleeping in8. Banana pancakes9. Free samples at the grocery store10. The Book of Mormon
"Life is goodLife is greatLife is unbelievableLife is hard, life is cruelLife is so beautiful"
Even the hard and the cruel are some of life's greatest blessings.  Hard coming home from my mission?  Yes.  Hard not having a place to call home? Yes.  Cruel to rip me out of the Philippines away from the people I came to love with my whole heart?  Yes.  But good to be back at college, meeting new friends, catching up with old ones? Yes.  Great to be able to attend the temple and find ways to be an everyday missionary?  Yes.  Life is unbelievable.  Life is beautiful.  With all it's twists and turns and bumps and bruises.  A roller coaster for sure.  But never dull.  And even if you throw up along the way, guaranteed you'll end with a smile on your face.  Life is just a series of new adventures.  Aren't endings not really endings at all but just new beginnings.  Here's to new beginnings.  Beginnings of endless blessings!  Life is good!  Life is great!  And every minute of it is a blessing!