Does anyone else frequently reflect upon how truly blessed we are?

It occurs to me so often that we are so entirely blessed in this nation. Heck, who knows, there are probably many others in other nations as well, but I know that I, for one, am definitely among the most blessed. Never do I have to wonder where I am going to sleep, where my next meal is coming from, where I will get medical care, if I will be able to get to church on Sunday and whether or not I will be able to worship without fear of persecution, or anything else for that matter. It has occurred to me even more overwhelmingly so since being pregnant how truly blessed we are. Within the first few weeks of being pregnant, I was reading an article in a magazine while waiting to get my hair done, and it was all about a woman who went through in vitro three times at $50 thousand a pop. The article then listed the percentage of women who struggle to conceive each year, going through depressions and turmoils of in vitro followed by attempts to adopt, and all the while there are so many women in this world who conceive so easily and bring babies in to less than healthy living conditions with drugs and molestation and so much more. Tears instantly stung my eyes to think how something that came so easily to me would be so difficult for someone else. I sat there and thanked my Heavenly Father for blessing me with the child who was just beginning to grow inside of me. Then, as I experienced horrible morning sickness, I had to ask myself how the pioneer women did it. They didn't have their choice of food available to them, or a meal every 2 hours as I became accustomed to after my first trimester. And they didn't have a comfortable bed to sleep in or healthcare avaialble and they walked all day, rain or cold or snow. I was such a baby for my first trimester...how would I have survived the plains!? Then today, I learned that one of my friends who is expecting a child a few months before me, one of the sweetest people I know, learned that her baby has Trisomy 13. This means the child was given 3 chromosomes it only needed 3 of. She will likely carry the baby to term, but the baby isn't expected to live. This happens to 1 in 3000 or 4000 women. Every single time we conceive a healthy baby, it is so much more of a miracle than we probably tend to realize. I just can't help but thank my Heavenly Father for the true miracles and blessings in my life.