The Gentle Art of Blessing (inspirational)

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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! Duty is God, Work is

Worship

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