Miracles News
January-March, 2009
New Beatitudes for a New Time
Blessed are they who want to be happy because happiness is already theirs!
Blessed are they who want to be divinely cared for because they have always been!
For me the word blessed has been a very fascinating and comforting word, and I have always loved the Beatitudes. According to the dictionary the word blessed means ”to confer happiness upon,” or “to invoke divine care for.”
After I read this, the word became even more meaningful. So when we bless, or call something blessed, we are actually bestowing happiness upon them, and we are calling forth divine care for them, or even better yet, acknowledging that they have it. The action of blessing multiplies what it signifies. What a wonderful and beautiful offering!
In Spanish, the verb to bless is “bendecir,” and that means to speak goodness. “Bien” means good and “decir “means to say. So no matter how you look at it, when we bless or recognize that someone is blessed, we are expressing and gifting them with our highest wishes and thoughts.
When I realized that to bless was to acknowledge goodness in everyone and everything, it became one of my favorite practices. I noticed that when I blessed, first of all I felt very blessed myself, and also I could feel the goodness of all things making itself much more visible and real to me. I also noticed that the action of blessing had a transformative effect. I saw people and situations becoming more harmonious and light filled. Blessing and realizing that we are very blessed, keeps our mind on Heaven, and definitely HEAVEN IS WHERE OUR MINDS ABIDE.
Blessed are we who share in God’s Happiness and are always so perfectly cared for, for we are enjoying the gifts of Heaven!
Blessed are we who are an expression of God’s Goodness because we are eternally being embraced by Love! Could we really lack anything or be limited by anything when we are God’s innocent and Holy Children? We are indeed very blessed and have been given the power to bless and make happy. It is definitely God’s power in us.
Rev. Annie Arbona is a Pathways of Light minister living in Charleston, SC. She is on the Pathways of Light staff and is in charge of the Spanish translation project.
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