Text for Count Your Blessings

I combined two Irish blessings and added a few lyrics of my own to create the song Count Your Blessings. It's a great piece for Thanksgiving or for any event that calls for looking on the bright side of life and focusing on the positive, rather than the negative.  

       Count Your Blessings
* these lines were added lyrics of my own

Count your blessings, not your crosses;
Count your gains instead of losses.
Count your joys instead of all your sadly woes.

*Count your fortune, not your hardship;
*Look to faith instead of darkness.
Count your friends instead of all those angry foes.

Chorus:
May peace and joy surround you,
And contentment latch your door.
May happiness be with you
And bless you evermore.

(Repeat Chorus)

Count your smiles instead of tears;
Count your courage, not your fears.
Count the full years that you've had and not your lean.

*Count your hope and say a prayer;
*Find the bright side, don't despair.
Count the kind deeds instead of only mean.

Chorus:
May peace and joy surround you,
And contentment latch your door.
May happiness be with you
And bless you evermore.

Count your health and not your wealth;
Love your neighbor as yourself.
And may happiness be with you evermore.
And may happiness be with you ever more.