NEIMP BLESSINGS

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

When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost,

Count your many blessings, name them one by one,

And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.

Count your blessings, name them one by one,

Count your blessings, see what God hath done!

Count your blessings, name them one by one,

Count your many blessings, see what God hath done.

[And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.]

....Do not be discouraged, God is over all...

Johnny is our Math Boy... loves anything that has to do with numbers... counts everything, measures everything. When he asked me what the highest number was, I thought of the national deficit and then replied "There isn't a highest number Johnny, it's infinity." I don't know if it's Johnny's finite mind, and the fact that he has to number everything, or if what he said happened, truly happened.  A few days after my defining infinity (with my all too finite vocabulary) he came to me and said that God had told him that there was a highest number, and it's name is "Neimp".  He never wavered from this name when I would question him, and now it has, in our home,  replaced the proverbial children's use of "Infinity"... You know, "I have a thousand cars." "Well I have a million cars." "Well, I have infinity!" ... and everyone has to shut up.

We have tried to explain to the boys that we (and God) are the only people privy to neimp and that if they use it outside of the house, no one will know what they are saying. None-the Less, they continue to use it... almost all day long.  "He hit me neimp times." "You made neimp PB&J sandwiches."

In my head (and only in my head...at least for now) I'm using it. "Wow, there's like neimp snow." " I have neimp things to do." As I was thinking of God's infinite blessings, and trying to count them, I thought of neimp... I know I'll never reach the number neimp (if nothing else b/c it may not even exist), so trying to count my blessings and reaching neimp is kind of fun.

There's no better sleep that follows one of two things; falling asleep while praying, or falling asleep while counting neimp blessings... one of which, for me is Johnny Phillips.

This is why I also like Bing's version:

When I'm worried and I can't sleep

I count my blessings instead of sheep

And I fall asleep counting my blessings

When my bankroll is getting small

I think of when I had none at all

And I fall asleep counting my blessings

I think about a nursery and I picture curly heads

And one by one I count them as they slumber in their beds

If you're worried and you can't sleep

Just count your blessings instead of sheep

And you'll fall asleep counting your blessings