By Ruth Ann Replogle, columnist
Thanksgiving has come and went, and I’m sure many of you spent a moment during the feasting festivities to count your blessings.
I know I did — good health, another season with my mother-in-law and my parents (all of whom turn 75 in the coming months, heehee), a steady job, supportive friends and, of course, a wonderful husband.
During my vacation down south, I got to fellowship with so many family members on my side and his side. It was such joy. We ate, watched holiday movies, ate, laughed and told stories, ate, took pictures and ate again.
While watching television back in Oklahoma, I noticed the return of Mercy Hospital’s commercial with the choir singing “Let me be a blessing ...”
I started thinking about how I’m blessed but have I been blessing others?
The basis of blessing is bestowing favor, prosperity or happiness upon another.
Am I spreading happiness to everyone I come in contact with or am I being this season’s grinch?
In the Beatitudes, listed in Matthew 5, attitude is what causes the blessings. The passage ends with “Rejoice and be glad ...”
My mother-in-law recited an interesting saying to me the other day: “He can get glad in the same pants he got mad in.”
Isn’t that the truth? You and I have the choice to be a blessing in the same way we have the choice to be bad. It certainly is something to chew on as Christmas nears.
“... O Lord, let me a blessing to someone you send my way.”
Replogle is a freelance writer and a News & Eagle editor. E-mail her at ruthannr@enidnews.com.
