Count Your Blessings

How do you go a day without counting your miracles & blessings

For even if you believe them to be few and far between

only when you count then are they truly seen

Never let them out of your sight

For they are the reasons you continue to fight

And the words of your Thankfulness

Lead to the actions of your gratitude

Which infuses meaningful life into your attitude

I Can

I will always learn to see and seek what I can

For to focus on what I cannot is to impose on myself a ban

I want to open my eyes to more than now

replacing I cannot with I can allows me to find out how

Allowing me to become aware of G-d's surrounding Wow

I can unleashes the authentic me

The only way I have a chance to be free

For it catapults me forward more than any word

Leading to action that keeps me significant and never lost in the herd

The blessing to be able to be what I can is a clear sign

That no matter what I need never resign my Divine design

No Excuse

Hashem I resolve to no further excuse myself from life
I do not want to be the harbinger of needless strife

How captivating the temptation of a comforting excuse
that distracts me into a life draining ruse without any enduring use

Hashem I know that excuse can be another word for fear
but I start to realize that at times to succeed you need to shed a tear

Excuses limit what I am open to believe
Convincing me that this is all I will ever achieve

Hashem I see now that excuses are no more than comfort zone glue
Keeping me from living a life that is authentic and true

Excuses remain words and reasons lead to meaningful action
which paves the way to my life's enduring satisfaction