When you think of me ….
“When you think of me, you must think of me as one who is truly happy. It is true, I want a great many things I haven’t got, but I don’t want them enough to be discontented and not enjoy the many blessings that are mine.
I have my home among the blue mountains, my healthy children, my clean, honest husband, my kind, gentle milk cows, my garden which I make myself. I have loads and loads of flowers which I tend myself. There are lots of chickens, turkeys, and pigs which are my own special care, I have some old gentle horses and an old wagon.
I can load up the kiddies and go where I please any time. I have the best, kindest neighbors and I have my dear absent friends.
Do you wonder that I am so happy? When I think of it all, I wonder how I can crowd all of my joy into one short life.”
~From the letters of Elinore Rupert Stewart. Excerpted from “Letters of a Woman Homesteader”.
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Posted by Christy Jordan
on Jan 13 2011. Filed under Life at Bountiful.
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Thanks for sharing, just wonderful. Sometimes it’s hard to see how rich we are blessed. Even with all her hard work she can still see it.
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Each and everyone of our lives are so blessed in ways that we don’t see it. I have to stop and just take it all in and Thank God for everything I have.
Indeed, I always love this passage, thanks for sharing it again!
Thank you ?Christy-once again yo have posted something that has helped me see past the troubles we are having now and find the many blessings that I do have.
Beautiful!! I need to read that book…thanks for sharing!!
Christy, you are on the right track!
Thanks for sharing this post . . . by the way, Amazon.com currently has a Kindle version of this book for free.
Thank you for sharing that inspiration. I love singing the hymn “count your many blessings name them one by one, and it will surprise you what the Lord hath done”.
Beautiful! God has a lot of beauty in this world and it doesn’t cost anything!!!!!
I’m downloading it to my smartphone now. Thanks for sharing; I needed to hear this.
Denise
This is so beautiful. God has blessed us in so many ways.
I shall have to get the book, The exerpt was lovely.
What is the name of the book and the author?
Hey Diane! I listed it beneath the passage. It is a wonderful book and true story to boot, from her letters to a friend back home
Gratefully,
Christy
Thanks Christy for sharing.Checking the library to see if they have this book as I love to read anything about this time period and the pioneers.
This is so beautiful. We tend to take our blessings for granted.