Category: Blessings

All ToiBox articles about blessings, from sunshine to family… As of October 2015, these individual posts are no more and have been combined under the About Me label.

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Count Your Blessings 18: Farms

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Farms

I adore gardens and to me farms are just big gardens, but of course, they usually also come with livestock.  You can’t feed the people of the world without farms no matter how advanced our technology gets.

There are all kinds of farms, but unfortunately, farmers aren’t giving the credit and respect they’re due anymore. Farming is a lot of hard work and unless you have a specialty product, most governments aren’t willing to pay much for your efforts.  Still, to be able to live off the fruits of your labor, to some, beats working in an office.

I’m blessed to live in a world that’s still in good enough condition that farms are able to sustain themselves, even though it’s not as easy as it used to be.

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Count Your Blessings 17: Music

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Music

I do so adore music in all its many forms. Music is powerful. It bridges gaps and connects people. It crossed lines of age, race, religion, nationality, and more. Music is so dynamic that it has been praised, fear, and scorned over ages. Music can make you want to laugh, cry, pray, dance, sleep, run, hit something, make love, and so much more.

It still blows my mind that there are people in the world who actually don’t like music. I can understand not liking a certain kind of music, but to have no regard for music in general baffles me. I accept that there is nothing wrong with not liking music, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it, especially when I feel so blessed to live in a world with so many musical options.

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Count Your Blessings 16: Books

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Books

I feel almost silly explaining why books ae a blessing, but they are. I won’t go into the debate about print versus digital, even though I think there will always be a need for print books no matter how advanced and convenient society becomes. However, I will admit that I do adore my Kindle.

I’ve written before about the great blessing that the written language is and the blessings of books stem from that and branches out. Books are more than just words on paper bound between two covers. Books are an experience. You get to look at them, hold, read, inspect them, interpret them, question them, take care of them or demolish them with love and frequent use.

When I think about times in history when books were burned it makes me weary for the future. It seems that history always repeats itself in some capacity. I won’t lie and pretend that I’d defend the content of every book ever printed, but I wouldn’t help to destroy any, even the ones I don’t like. I’m blessed to live a world where there are more books than any one person could ever read, and blessed that I have an opportunity to try to read as many of them as I can.

Thank you for taking the time to read this post. If you like it let me know and share it with others. See you next time, Toi Thomas. #thetoiboxofwords