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12-22-2007, 11:12 AM
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 streetsweepers, 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
yet 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 joyfull 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!
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 streetsweepers, 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
yet 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 joyfull 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!