“The Gentle Art of Blessing” ~ by Pierre Pradervand

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" The Gentle Art of Blessing " ~ by Pierre Pradervand

 

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 the aura of its gentle fragrance will be a light to their path.

 

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

work, their joy, their relationships to God, themselves, and others.

Bless them in their abundance, their finances...bless them in every

conceivable way, for such blessings not only sow seeds of healing but

one day will spring forth as flowers of joy 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 or unkindness to you, respond with a blessing: bless them

totally, sincerely, joyfully, for such blessings are a shield which

protects them from the ignorance of their misdeed, and deflects the

arrow that was aimed at you.

 

To bless means to wish, unconditionally, total, unrestricted good for

others and events from the deepest wellspring in the innermost chamber

of your heart: it means to hallow, to hold in reverence, to behold with

utter 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 think or speak 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 discrimination of any sort is the ultimate form of

giving, because those you bless will never know from whence came the

sudden ray of sun 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, some unexpected event

knocks down your plans and you too 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 to

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 prisoner of one's self-image, and a

free man can walk unshackled in the courtyard of a jail, just as

citizens of countries where freedom reigns can be prisoners when fear

lurks in their thoughts.

 

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

for even in their suffering, this wholeness awaits in them to be

discovered. 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 splendor and perfection which

only the inner eye beholds.

 

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

constantly as a deep, hallowed, intoned thought that desire to bless,

for truly then shall you become a peacemaker, and one day you shall,

everywhere, behold the very face of God.

 

And of course, above all, don't forget to bless the utterly

beautiful person YOU are!