Sarah writes "after accepting our present circumstances, no matter what they are, we must learn to bless them". Pretty hard stuff, when you are faced with misery hey. Anyone who has been through a recent crisis (mine is the flooding in Victoria - see picture above), will tell first hand how difficult it is. Learn to bless misery??? Thats a hard ask.
Sarah quotes:
Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will
curse you..... if you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and
even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you
sincerely bless it.Emmet Fox
It is so easy to focus on our woes, our pain and our losses. Over time these occupy the majority of our thoughts, and they change who we are. We become bitter, lethargic and concoured. This is not our authentic selves.
But it doesnt have to be this way. The harder road is not to be a defeatest, but to be like the mythical phoenix bird, to rise from the ashes re-born and better than before. This takes courage, which if we search our souls, we will find that we have a bounty of.
Sarah asks us to count our blessings, starting today. Acknowledge the daily positives, even during times when the negative seems to take centre stage. She reminds us, writing down our victories focuses our attention on the adundance already within our grasp and makes it real.
So dear reader - how many blessings have you counted today???
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