So Many Reasons to Love the Lord by Helen Steiner Rice

So Many Reasons to Love the Lord

Thank you, God, for the little things that come unexpectedly

To brighten up a dreary day that dawned so dismally--

Thank You, God, for sending a happy thought my way

To blot out my depression on a disappointing day--

Thank You, God, for brushing the "dark clouds" from my mind

And leaving only "sunshine" and joy of heart behind...

Oh, God, the list is endless of things to thank You for

But I take them all for granted and unconsciously ignore

that EVERYTHING I THINK or DO, and movement that I make

Each measured rhythmic heartbeat, each breath of life I take

Is something You have given me for which there is now way

For me in all my "smallness" to in any way repay.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow or turning.  James 1:17