There is a purpose in the way the world has been created that is serving your soul. There is a purpose in the way you have been created exactly. There are no mistakes. All the conditions in your life are on purpose because they are of God and loved unconditionally.

The true nature of loving is unconditional. How far does “unconditional” go? It is infinite. That means your ability to be loving towards yourself is infinite. God’s love for you is infinite and unconditional. Come into the truth and rejoice in the truth of who you are as a loving soul, beloved of God.

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In our humanness, we may function in judgment, disillusionment, and disturbance. Knowing that about ourselves, we can raise our consciousness by treating it like a wayward child. Rather than punishing or being harsh with yourself, do those things that are loving towards yourself. Do them for the glory of the Spirit within you. Love yourself as a testimony to the Lord, as the beloved child of God that you are.

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We may not necessarily like all our circumstances. We’re tested in our personalities, our minds, and our egos. So it’s important to engage your trust and faith that each situation and experience is of the Light and love. Everything that comes forward in your day is from God and therefore inherently good and loved unconditionally. Even when you don’t like something, remember “This too is loved.” Remember, you too are loved.

You might ask yourself, “Am I loving this? Am I loving myself?” Take a moment to pause and listen. Maybe you’ll realize you need to get yourself engaged inwardly because outwardly you’re already reacting negatively. If you are, then move inwardly into the Spirit and re-instill that love is your foundation. Love is who you are and what you are, regardless of what is done or said or anything that happened.

Move into full commitment to love and care for yourself as you are. Could you have a relapse? Well, of course. But with good awareness about yourself, you can say, “I’ve already done that. I don’t need to do that again.” Through your courage and patience, and by remembering who you are spiritually, you can stop the pattern that puts you down and finds fault with yourself.

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       As you start the day, first surround and fill yourself with Light and love. You can do this as a prayer to God, an invocation of the Light, or through your creative imagination. Then, extend the Light into your day as you see yourself moving forward in the world. During the day, remember that the Light goes before you and prepares the way. All the things that come forward in your day, expected or unexpected, wanted or unwanted, are part of that Light action which is always present within you.

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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.

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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.

Based on his wonderful new book, You Are the Blessings: Meditations and Reflections on Life, God and Us, John Morton facilitated our delightful and uplifting April webclass. From Africa, South America, Indonesia, throughout the United States and the heart of Santa Monica, our spiritual family tuned in together to experience the blessings we truly are. We shared a heartfelt, joyous evening as we realized more than ever before that we are God’s blessings, always in all ways.

Our evening began with the beautiful Alexandra Roberts welcoming us all and introducing us to the purpose and guidelines for our webclasses. Alexandra showed us John Morton’s new book and encouraged us to read and enjoy his profound words of inspiration and comfort. Alexandra noted that You Are the Blessings is filled with messages of loving which is what Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (MSIA) and John Morton, MSIA’s Spiritual Director, are all about.

Two Moments of Peace with John-Roger, founder of MSIA, helped us remember the blessings of children and how we all are God’s children in our loving hearts. John Morton then joined us and asked us to look at how we ourselves are God’s blessings. John reflected on the ten blessings that John-Roger identified — Loving, Caring, Sharing, Health, Wealth, Happiness, Prosperity, Abundance, Riches and Touching — and how we are each of those blessings. John then stepped into the studio audience, shaking hands with some fellow blessings, and encouraging us wherever we are to reach out and offer the blessings of a loving, caring touch to one another.

John reminded us that our breath, which comes from a divine source, is confirmation that we are inherently good. Look for the good in each and every situation, John encouraged us, because every situation is inherently good. John then guided us through a partner process, either with a physical partner or by following the handout provided on the web. Through a series of poignant questions, we looked within to discover more fully how we truly are the blessings in our challenges. We then realized how challenges themselves can be blessings in our lives. An abundance of blessings unfolded in often surprising yet deeply comforting ways, bringing forward the joy of knowing who we truly are — God’s Beloveds.

To help us see more fully how we are the blessings, John invited questions from the studio audience and around the world. Questions reflected a variety of topics, including worship, ambition, tithing, handling fear, and getting what we want. In each sharing, I heard John encourage us to see how each and every thing, person and situation is a blessing for us and how we are the blessings as well.

John encouraged us to love what is here and now, and appreciate and care for the opportunities that are present in this very moment. He reminded us to be thankful for everything, including the air we breathe, food we eat, and having a place to live. John noted that tithing, in its essence, is about giving the value of what we have received and is most importantly about our divine partnership with God. When we encounter difficulties, John reassured us we can always return to the loving. Remember that loving will prevail, John said as he closed the evening, and that’s the eternal good news.

Before signing off for the evening, Alexandra thanked us all for tuning in and let us know about upcoming MSIA events in Southern California as well as our next webcast, an Open Question and Answer Evening with John Morton, on Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 6:30 pm PST. Tune in at www.msia.org/live.

To discover more about knowing “You Are the Blessings,” watch the archive of the webclass at www.msia.org/archives and purchase You Are the Blessings: Meditations and Reflections on Life, God and Us at Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble.com.

“Welcome the blessings of who you are, and remember to give your heartfelt thanks, a prayer of praise and faith in God’s blessing upon all things.”
John Morton (From: You Are the Blessings: Meditations and Reflections on Life, God and Us, page xviii)

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The Blessings Already Are