Count Your Blessings

An interesting drama about our blessings, based on the hymn "Count Your Blessings."

Bible reference: Ezekiel

Sample of script:

Words: Johnson Oatman, Jr., in Songs for Young People, by Edwin Excell (Chicago, Illinois: 1897).

Music: Edwin O. Excell

A skit or call to worship for two people – one is a reader, off stage or in the background.  The other (italics) is on stage.

Off stage voice:

When upon life’s billows you are tempest-tossed. 

When you get discouraged thinking all is lost.

On stage performer:

Sometimes it seems like everything is coming apart. My life, my work, even my body!

Are you ever burdened with a load of care?  Does the cross seem heavy you are called to bear?

Jennie is sick again, there’s a leak in the roof and I think the car is on its last legs.

When you look at others with their lands and gold, Think that Christ has promised you his wealth untold.

I can’t believe they cut back my hours at work.. I wonder if they are going to lay me off?

So amid the conflict whether great or small, Do not be discouraged God is over all.

But I guess I sometimes just feel sorry for myself. 

I really need to stop doing that.

Count your many blessings, name them one by one. And it will surprise you what the Lord has done.

You just need to read the papers to see there are lots of people who would be happy to trade places.