From the fullness of his grace we have
all received one blessing after another.
—John 1:16
A recently certified CPA set out to enlighten his immigrant father.
“Dad, your business is a mess,” he said. “You have no inventory procedure. Your accounts-receivables are stuffed in a drawer. You don’t have a bookkeeping system. You have no idea how much profit you’ve made, if any.”
“Son,” said Pop, “when I came to this country, the only thing I owned was a pair of pants. Now your brother is a doctor, your sister is an art teacher, and you’re an accountant. Your mother and I own our little home, we have a car that’s paid for, and we make a decent living from this print shop. Add all that up, subtract the pants, and the rest is profit.”
You don’t need a PhD in math to count your blessings.
Elementary-school addition will do the trick.