For each one gathered here we ask for Your blessing, that You will surround, fill and protect each of us as we go forward from this point into this new year.

We extend that blessing to all that is here on the planet to teach us, to bring us the experience that creates greater wisdom, joy, peace and harmony. We see in the fulfillment of what You have prepared that we are celebrated. This is our destiny — to move into celebration and know consciously that every moment, condition and circumstance in which we find ourselves is one that causes fulfillment and causes us to wake up in our beauty, our grace, and our majesty. There is nothing in this world, no negativity or hurt, nothing that can be done, that can ever interfere with Your will that we come home.

In the coming home, we are joined with all, and all look upon us in celebration. So we experience the songs of joy, the dance that is our true movement. We find it is right here, right now, in this place, in this life. And we give thanks.

We give thanks for this gathering and another beautiful day of Your creation. We celebrate the meaning of this day that represents how, through You, all things are made new. We open ourself and let go of all things we do not need, that do not serve our consciousness for the highest good. As we let go, we are letting all of Your wisdom, grace and beauty flood into every aspect of who we are, so we are cleansed and purified. We are completed through Your blessings.

We have an experience of a brand new day, a dawning, and what we see before us is the makings of heaven on earth: a life that is full of health, wealth, and happiness, loving, caring and sharing and all of Your riches, Your wealth, Your prosperity, Your abundance that is to be shared this day. We ask that this blessing may go out all around the planet so those who are ready, those who are chosen in this moment, and whenever that may be, may awaken to this blessing, and live in this blessing, as we do in our heart and soul, fulfilling the commandment to love one another as You have loved us.

Baruch Bashan

Have you ever had a moment when you realized that everything in your life is a blessing? Even the most challenging situations are blessings too?   Have you ever considered that you are the blessings in your challenges?  
 
Everything in our lives is presented to us in some way as a blessing, including the nature of ourselves. When we choose to love, accept, and cooperate with whatever is presented to us, then we are relating to everything as blessings.  

What is a blessing? For me, blessings mean greater good.  Goodness already exists within you and me, in everyone, and in the world around us.  Goodness is a given.  It is who we are.  
 
Along with the goodness present now is greater good yet to become.  So we always have an opportunity to realize the greater good, to realize the blessings that already are. It can be a turning point in your life when you decide, “My life is going to be about the greater good, about finding the blessings.” It’s simply a matter of how you choose to look at each situation and yourself.
 
I refer to ten blessings identified by John-Roger, D.S.S. — loving, caring, sharing, health, wealth, happiness, prosperity, abundance, riches and touching.  All these blessings, every single one and many more that relate to them, are present all the time. As we become more aware of the blessings, we then allow the blessings to manifest.  That’s because the source of the blessings is always present.  
 
It doesn’t matter to me what you call your source.  You can call it God, Holy Spirit, Higher Power, Inner Master or whatever you like.  The source of the blessings is an eternally loving presence within you that goes by all kinds of names.  It breathes with you and walks with you.  It already knows all about you and loves and adores you as you are.  Everyone has this eternally loving source within them, including you.
 
You can realize the blessings when you accept, enjoy, and appreciate all the conditions in your life as somehow part of the great perfection on your path of awareness of who you truly are.  So it’s up to each one of us to choose.  It’s our choice to become more aware of the blessings that come from that loving source.  
 
By accepting that the conditions in my life right now are perfect for me, I am choosing to trust that the blessings already are.  Rather than thinking, “Oh, I made a big mistake,” or “This cannot be on my path,” or “This cannot be a blessing,” I see each experience as adding to me and my learning and growth.  So I choose to accept that everything in my life is presented to me from my source for my greater good.
 
I’m not saying you have to like everything that you experience.  I don’t like everything I experience. However, I’m suggesting that no matter what happens, something in each experience has value and often great value for us, more than we might first consider.  So I encourage you not to draw your first conclusion about a situation or challenge.  Be open as much as you can. The greater blessings are often something that we don’t initially see.
 
When I see challenges in this world that appear to defy the greater good or deny the blessings, I consider they are just ways of testing us to see if we will trust even more than we already have.  At times, choosing the blessings can take tremendous courage, clarity and conviction.  We may be called upon to be patient and endure more than we imagined we could.  When we do, we can then discover our strength more fully and completely.  We can find a greater love than we knew possible.  With confidence and trust, we can then look to every challenge as an opportunity to learn and grow and know our goodness even more.  
 
Whenever a challenge is presented to us so we can choose to learn to be more loving and caring, to be more accepting and compassionate, to forgive more fully and completely. Perhaps we are simply learning to know we are the blessings, the ones already present regardless of conditions and the ones coming forward as we are patient and enduring with looking for the blessings.  
 
How do we find the blessings?  Through our trust in that eternally loving source by staying open to seeing the greater good.  So when we are faced with any challenge, we can ask within to realize and be more aware of the blessings.  In my experience, when I ask my source to help me understand and realize what is for the greater good, I am shown the blessings.
 
I find that the deepest, most meaningful aspects of my life are ones that may first appear to be ordinary and inconsequential. Maybe I realize what a blessing it is to have shoes on my feet and clothes on my back.  Perhaps I’m aware that I have people who I care about and who care about me.   Sometimes it’s as simple and as vital as, “I’m alive. I’m breathing.  I’m here.”
 
The blessings already are, so take this moment to look for the good and seek the greater good yet to become.

BlessingsFests are intimate events were we write our blessings requests anonymously and John Morton addresses them with his wisdom and loving. We will discover how the blessings already are and learn how we are the blessings in our lives, while enjoying a delicious dinner overlooking beautiful Biscayne Bay in the heart of downtown Miami.

Time: 7:30 pm Place: Hyatt Regency Downtown Miami 400 NE 2nd Avenue, Ibis Room, Third Floor Miami, Florida 33131 www.miamiregency.hyatt.com

Be a Blessings Sponsor! $1,000 suggested donation to MSIA

Spanish translation will be provided

*John Morton is planning to attend, health and schedule permitting. John-Roger has been invited.

$250 Minimum donation to MSIA

For further Information and to Register:

Blessings@msiaflorida.org

Bendiciones@msiaflorida.org

]]> http://theblessings.org/meditation/events/miami-florida-hosts-you-are-the-blessingsfest-july-20-2008/feed 1 http://theblessings.org/meditation/news/why-i-wrote-you-are-the-blessings http://theblessings.org/meditation/news/why-i-wrote-you-are-the-blessings#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:03:39 +0000 wundermom7 http://theblessings.org/?p=47 Would you like to know why I wrote, You Are the Blessings?

It’s very simple. When I would do booksignings for my first book, The Blessings Already Are, I often inscribed the phrase, “You Are the Blessings.” I wrote it for the same reason I wrote this book — as a way of doing God’s work in this world. I want to share God’s message that we are all born as the blessings in the making. We are the blessings as a life potential that is always awaiting our realization and choosing. We are the blessings regardless of past choices and conditions.

In The Blessings Already Are, I spent a chapter talking about the blessings John-Roger identified as loving, caring, sharing, health, wealth, and happiness, abundance, prosperity, riches and touching. All the blessings, every single one, are present all the time. That’s because the source of the blessings, God, is always present.

As we let ourselves be more aware of the blessings, more conscious of God’s presence within us, we allow the blessings to manifest. We allow ourselves to know we are the blessings.

Everything in our life, at its core, is a blessing. So when all is said and done, when the day is done, when our life is done, everything has been serving in some way as a blessing.

Since I have the experience of knowing we are the blessings, I choose to share that knowing with others. As a minister in the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, I have a good window on the amazing, constant, practical application that calls upon God as the best way to respond to life’s challenges, especially the unwanted and painful aspects of living in this world.

I travel to many places and situations where I’m aware that our presence is to help partake of the blessings and an opportunity to assist others. Regardless of the personal situations and challenges that each of us experience we can choose to be more conscious that we are the blessings.

When I am faced with a challenge, I find an opportunity to ask within to realize the blessings. I have experienced again and again the wisdom of looking for the blessings present and coming forward with our cooperation. So I encourage people not to draw their first conclusion about a situation or challenge but to be open as much as they can. The greater blessings are often something that we can’t yet see.

When things challenge us, whatever they are and to whatever degree they challenge us, they’re simply demonstrating that we are here to learn and experience for our growth. We are being tested. Perhaps we’re learning to be more loving, to be more accepting and more compassionate. Perhaps we’re simply learning to know we are the blessings present and coming forward.

Choosing the blessings can take tremendous courage, clarity and conviction. Nonetheless, our choices are freely presented.

Others may scoff and turn away, but I know the blessings already are. I am grateful when I choose the blessings. I am grateful to know I am the blessings. And I enjoy sharing with others You Are the Blessings.

- John Morton