by Pierre Pradervand, first shared in January 2018 and still so relevant today!
We bless this coming year for the innumerable opportunities for good that will manifest as we open up to their possibility.
We bless You, divine Love for the unknown blessings that are already on their way.
We bless You also for the needed challenges that are already lined up so as to help us grow spirit-wards.
May we open our hearts to all those in need we meet and also those at the other side of the world whom we can assist or support in different ways.
May we treasure the simple fact of being alive and of the possibility of “DAWL” (Doing All With Love), moment by moment, day in, day out: thinking only loving thoughts, speaking words of love, seeing all with the eyes of love, undertaking all in a spirit of love and finally feeling only love.
May we treasure the intimacy of Your Presence moment by moment, anywhere and everywhere, by day or by night.
And may we learn to see absolutely everything that manifests in our lives as You hidden in the thousand and one disguises of form.
And finally, may we learn to really love ourselves as the magnificent divine manifestation we are, for then only will we really learn to love our neighbor – human, plant or beast – as ourselves, for they are ourselves.
A Blessing for Every Day
From https://pierrepradervand.com/365-blessings-to-heal-myself-and-the-world/
Pierre renamed this beautiful blessing (which its author Debbie Ford titled “Drenched in Holiness: Prayer for a New Year”) simply: A Blessing for Every Day, as it expresses what so many people would like to live by.
Dear God,
On this day I ask You to grant this request.
May I know who I am and what I am, every moment of every day.
May I be a catalyst for light and love and bring inspiration to those whose eyes I meet.
May I have the strength to stand tall in the face of conflict, and the courage to speak my voice, even when I’m scared.
May I have the humility to follow my heart, and the passion to live my soul’s desires.
May I seek to know the highest truth and dismiss the gravitational pull of my lower self.
May I embrace and love the totality of myself, my darkness as well as my light.
May I be brave enough to hear my heart,
To let it soften so that I may gracefully choose faith over fear.
Today is my day to surrender anything that stands
Between the sacredness of my humanity and my divinity. May I be drenched in my Holiness and engulfed by Your love.
May all else melt away.
