the art of blessing.

“Upon awakening, bless your journey, because it is already overflowing with an abundance of goods that your blessings will make appear. Because blessing means recognizing the infinite good that is an integral part of the very plot of the universe. That good all he expects is a signal from you to manifest.

When you meet people on the street, on the bus, in your workplace, bless everyone. The peace of your blessing will be a companion of your path, and the aura of your discreet perfume will be a light in your itinerary. Bless those you meet, pour out the blessing on their health, their work, their joy, their relationship with God, with themselves and with others.

Bless them in their goods and their resources.

Bless them in every imaginable way, because those blessings not only spread the seeds of healing but someday they will sprout like so many flowers of joy in the arid spaces of your own life.

As you walk, bless your village or your city, bless those who govern it and its educators, their nurses and their sweepers, their priests and their prostitutes. As soon as someone shows you the least aggressiveness, anger or lack of kindness, respond with a silent blessing.

Bless them totally, sincerely, joyfully, because those blessings are a shield that protects them from the ignorance of their evils, and changes the direction of the arrow they have shot at you.

Blessing means wanting and wanting unconditionally, totally and without reservation, the unlimited good — for others and for the events of life — making it emerge from the deepest and most intimate sources of your being.

This means venerating and considering with total admiration what is always a gift from the Creator, whatever the appearances. Who is affected by your blessing is a privileged, consecrated, whole being. Blessing means invoking divine protection over someone or something, thinking about it with deep recognition, evoking it with gratitude. It also means calling happiness to come upon him, since we are never the source of the blessing, but simply the joyful witnesses of the abundance of life.

Blessing everything, blessing everyone, without discrimination, is the supreme form of the gift, because those whom you bless will never know where that sunbeam came from
that suddenly tore the clouds of his sky, and you will rarely witness that light that has illuminated his life.

When an unexpected event arises in your journey that baffles you and throws your plans to the ground, explode in blessings, because then life is about to teach you a lesson, although its cup may seem bitter. Because that event that you think is so undesirable, in fact, you have raised it yourself to learn the lesson that would escape you if you hesitated to bless it. The tests are as many hidden blessings. And legions of angels follow in their footsteps.

Blessing means recognizing an omnipresent beauty, hidden from material eyes. It is to activate the universal law of attraction that, from the bottom of the universe, will bring to your life exactly what you need in the present moment to grow, advance and fill the cup of your joy.

When you pass a prison, pour the blessing on its inhabitants, on its innocence and freedom, on its goodness, on the purity of its intimate essence, on its unconditional forgiveness. Because one can only be a prisoner of one's image of oneself, and a free man can walk without chains through the courtyard of a prison, just as the citizens of a free country can be inmates when fear curls up in their thought.

When you pass in front of a hospital, bless your patients, pour the blessing on the fullness of their health, because even in their suffering and in their illness, that fullness is simply waiting to be discovered. And when you see someone who suffers and cries or shows signs of being shattered by life, bless him in his vitality and joy: because the senses only present the reverse of splendor and ultimate perfection that only the inner eye can perceive.

It is impossible to bless and judge at the same time. Keep in you, therefore, that desire to bless as an incessant inner resonance and as a perpetual silent prayer, because in that way you will be of those people who are artisans of peace, and one day you will discover everywhere the very face of God.

And above all, do not forget to bless that wonderful person, absolutely beautiful in his true nature and so worthy of love, that you are yourselves. ”


From the book “The art of blessing” by Pierre Pradervand, Ed. Sal Terrae.