The Gentle Art of Blessing (inspirational)

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The Gentle Art of Blessing

 

On awakening, bless this day, for it is already full of unseen good which your

blessings will call forth, for to bless is to acknowledge the unlimited good

that is embedded in the very texture of the universe and awaiting each and all.

On passing people in the street, on the bus, in places of work and play, bless

them. The peace of your blessing will accompany them on their way, and its aura

will be a light on their path.

 

On meeting people and talking to them, bless them in their health, their work,

their joy, their relationship to the universe, themselves and others. Bless

them in their abundance and their finance, bless them in every conceivable way,

for such blessings not only sow seeds of healing but

one day will spring forth as flowers in the waste places of your own life.

 

As you walk, bless the city in which you live, its government and teachers, its

nurses and street sweepers, its children and bankers, its priests and

prostitutes.

 

The minute anyone expresses the least aggression to you, respond with a

blessing! Bless them totally, sincerely, joyfully.......for such blessings are

a shield that protects them from the ignorance of their misdeed and deflects

the arrow that was aimed at you.

 

To bless, means to wish, unconditionally and from the deepest chamber of your

heart, unrestricted good for others and events; it means to hallow, to hold in

reverence, to behold with awe that which is always a gift from the Creator. He

who is hallowed by your blessing is set aside, consecrated, holy, whole.

 

To bless is to invoke divine care upon, to speak or think gratefully for, to

confer happiness upon, although we ourselves are never the bestower, but simply

the joyful witnesses of life’s abundance.

 

To bless all without distinction is the ultimate form of giving, because those

you bless will never know from whence came the sudden ray that burst through

the clouds of their skies, and you will rarely be a witness to the sunlight in

their lives.

 

When something goes completely askew in your day, when some unexpected event

upsets your plans and you also, burst into blessing.

 

For life is teaching you a lesson, and the very event you believe to be

unwanted, you yourself called forth, so as to learn the lesson you might balk

against were you not to bless it.

 

Trials are blessings in disguise, and hosts of angels follow in their path.

 

To bless is to acknowledge the omnipresent, universal beauty hidden from our

material eyes; it is to activate that law of attraction which, from the

furthest reaches of the universe, will bring into your life exactly what you

need to experience and enjoy.

 

When you pass a prison, mentally bless its inmates in their innocence and

freedom, their gentleness, pure essence and unconditional forgiveness; for one

can only be a prisoner of one’s self-image, and a free man can walk

unshackled in jail, just as citizens of a free country may be prisoners of the

fear lurking within their thoughts.

 

When you pass a hospital, bless its patients in their present wholeness, for

even in their suffering, their wholeness awaits discovery within them.

 

When your eyes behold a man in tears or seemingly broken by life, bless him in

his vitality and joy, for the material senses present but the inverted image of

the ultimate splendour and perfection that only the inner eye beholds.

 

It is impossible to bless and judge at the same time. So hold constantly.... as

a deep, hallowed, intoned thought..... the desire to bless, for truly then

shall you become a peacemaker, and one day you shall behold, everywhere the

face of God.

 

P.S.

 

And of course, above all, do not forget to bless the utterly beautiful person

YOU are.

Sourced from: The Gentle Art of Blessing by Pierre Pradervand

 

 

 

 

Remain Blessed....ALWAYS!

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