"He Did the Hard Part"

I love Sundays, just really love them and really need the spiritual uplift every week. It's a good refresher of how good life really is and that I need to buck up and quit whining. Today our Relief Society lesson was from President Monson's talk He is Risen and of course it was so good. He talked about Christ and his sacrifice for us. How he paid for our sins and overcame death. We wouldn't be able to complete or mortal life without him. And our teacher gave us a great quote. She said Christ has done the hard part. He suffered so severely for our sins and to overcome death so that we can live with our Heavenly Father if we will repent and do what we should. And that made me feel so much better today. Christ did the hard part, and I can surely survive my trials. I am blessed in so many ways and really need to count my blessing, every one of them, when I start feeling down.

Count Your Blessings

When upon life's billows you are tempest tossed,
When you are discouraged thinking all is lost,
Count your many blessings, name them one by one.
And it will surprise you what the Lord has done.

Are you ever burdened with a load of care?
Does the cross seem heavy you are called to bear?
Count your many blessings, every doubt will fly;
And you will be singing as the days go by.

When you look at others with their lands and gold,
Think that Christ has promised you his wealth untold.
Count your many blessings, money can not buy,
Your reward in Heaven nor your home on high.

So amid the conflict whether great or small,
Do not be discouraged, God is over all.
Count your many blessings, angels will attend,
Help and comfort give you to your journeys end.

Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your blessings see what God hath done.
Count your blessings, name them one by one.
Count your many blessings see what God hath done.