Counting Daisies

In counting daisies I am counting my blessings. And I am truly blessed each and every day.

While my husband and I were courting he would sing me a song about giving me a daisy a day. He didn't know it at the time but in his singing that song to me that is what the Lord used to win my heart to him.

My husband worked the midnight shift and drove one hour each way to work. While he would drive to work each night we would talk and dream of our life together. Oh, the plans we made.!

At that time I was not supposed to be able to have children so we were planning trips to places we both had dreamed of going...Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Australia, England and other places in the states. Since we married the Lord has given us two very beautiful boys full of energy. Needless to say, our dreams changed to raising children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Every day I am thankfully blessed with a husband who loves and cares and forgives me when I fail at being the perfect Proverbs 31 wife. Every day I am miraculously blessed with not one but two young boys the Lord has chosen me to get to be their mother.

Every day I am thankfully blessed that I have a roof over my head that my husband works hard to provide for our family. Every day I am thankful for children who believe they have the best mama ever. When my boys tell me that my heart just melts. I am thankful that through my aches and pains I can still walk without assistance.

There are so many things to be thankful for each and every day. If we were to put pen to paper there would be so much in the blessing column verses the cursed column. I would like to think more on the blessings and count my blessings and name them one by one.

It is July already and there are yet six months left in this year. Will you join me in counting your blessings? Lets count them all and see how many we can count to the end of the year...

It is well with my soul. Is it well with yours?



Below is the words to the song that my husband sang to me. He sometimes has a hard time makung it to the end without tearing up at the end. May you enjoy the song as I do.

A Daisy A Day
(by Hank Snow)

He remembers the first time he met her
He remembered the first thing she said
He remembered the first time he held her
And the night that she came to his bed.

He remembers her sweet way of sayin'
Honey has something gone wrong
He remembered the fun and the teasin'
And the reason he wrote her this song.

Chorus:
I'll give you a daisy a day dear
I'll give you a daisy a day
I'll love you until the rivers run still
And the four winds we know blow away.

They would walk down the street in the evening
And for years I would see them go by
And their love that was more than the clothes that they wore
Could be seen in the gleam in their eyes.

As a kid they would take me for candy
And I'd love to go taggin' along
We'd hold hands while we walked the corner
And the old man would sing her this song.

Chorus:
I'll give you a daisy a day dear
I'll give you a daisy a day
I'll love you until the rivers run still
And the four winds we know blow away.

Now he walks down the street in the evening
And he stops by the old candy store
And I somehow believe he's believin'
He's holdin' her hand like before.

For he feels all her love walkin' with him
And he smiles at the things she might say
Then the old man walks up to the hill top
And gives her a daisy a day.

Chorus:
I'll give you a daisy a day dear
I'll give you a daisy a day
I'll love you until the rivers run still
And the four winds we know blow away.