The poem expresses gratitude for blessings over troubles, finding more blessings the more they are counted. While some things were not as expected, goodness and blessings were thickly crowded in to offset hard times. There has always been sunshine after showers of tears and laughter scattered along the years. Thorns have sometimes pricked but love has often been hidden beneath beauty. The speaker will remain thankful for both good and bad times, which have made them happy and strengthened them through difficulties, and for little blessings like children, faithful friends, and God's guiding hand through dangers.

1. GIVING THANKS
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If you can't be thankful for what you receive,
be thankful for what you
escape.

2. I've been countin' up
my blessin's,
I've been summin' up
my woes,
But I ain't got the
conclusion
Some would naturally
suppose.

3. Why I quit a-countin'
troubles a'fore I had half
a score,
While the more I count
my blessin's I keep afindin' more and more.
There's been things that
weren't exactly as I
thought they'd ought to
be,
And I've often growled
at Providence for not apettin' me.

4. But I hadn't stopped to reckon what
the other side had been:
How much o'good an' blessin' had
been thickly crowded in.
For there's been a rift of sunshine
after every shower of tears,
And I've found a load of laughter
scattered all along the years.

5. If the thorns have pricked me
sometimes, I've good reason
to suppose
Love has hidden often from
me 'neath the rapture of the
rose.
So I'm gonna still be thankful
for the sunshine and the rain,
For the joy that's made me
happy,
For the purgin' done by pain.

6. For the love of little children,
For the friends that have been true,
For the guidin' hand that's led me
Every threatenin' danger through!
-- L.A. Tubbs

7. Do you have the spirit of heaviness today?
“In Every Thing Give Thanks”
( 1Thessalonians 5:18 ).
God waits to give you gladness, if you'll take up the
garments of praise and just begin to thank Him for what
He is and what He's done for you!
He begins to work for you
when you begin to praise Him!
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