Blessings bloom in expected and unexpected ways. Whether loud or quiet, visible or hidden, they remind us to pause, breathe, and be thankful. This page celebrates the gifts life brings—especially the ones disguised as challenges. 🌸

“When we lose one blessing, another is often, most unexpectedly, given in its place.” ~ C.S. Lewis

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise. ~ Kitty O'Meill Collins

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. ~ Willie Nelson

I count my blessings far more than I count my money. ~ Dolly Parton

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. ~ W. T. Purkiser

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. ~ Charles Dickens

Count your joys instead of your woes / Count your friends instead of your foes. ~ Irish Proverb

Blessed are the forgetful; for they get over their stupidities too. ~ Friedrich W. Nietzsche

Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them. ~ Plautus

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings. ~ Andrew Jackson

All blessings are mixed blessings. ~ John Updike

If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised. ~ Winston Churchill

Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

My life is a blessing every day that I get up. God saved my feet. How am I not going to use them? ~ Gail Devers

Everything that happens is either a blessing, which is also a lesson, or a lesson which is also a blessing. ~ Polly Berrien Berends

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one which we take the least thought to acquire. ~ La Rouchefoucauld

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother. ~ Mark Twain