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 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.

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Count Your Blessings 15: Transportation

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Transportation

I had to walk home one day from a location I visit quite frequently. In a car it takes no more than ten minutes to get there from my house, but walking that distance is something else altogether. There is no direct path and unless you’ve been training for a marathon, odds are, the average person isn’t in the right physical or mental shape to make that kind of trek.

I think all too often people take modes of transportation and roadways for granted. People don’t take good care of their vehicles, they don’t take good care of the roads, and they don’t take good care of themselves behind the wheel, still refusing to put down their mobile phones and just drive.

There are so many reasons I’m blessed to live in a world of modern transportation, but one vain reason is that I like to travel. One day, I’ll let modern transportation take me around the world, but for now, I’m glad to not have to walk to the grocery store unless I just need a good sweat to keep me in shape.

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