Blessing

I have applied the art of blessing for many years, it was something I understood early on from my childhood days in Wales. I do not know, how exactly, I came to know the power of a blessing, but I had great respect for its intent. Over the last several years I have used blessings to help myself heal and transform my life and my person particularly those aspects of myself that are not useful, undesirable and limiting. I have also used the power of blessing to heal difficult relationships with others.


John O'Donohue tells us that it would be "infinitely lonely to live in a world without blessing". I cannot imagine how hollow and barren I would be or feel without this gift of healing that I offer myself. Having a personal practice of blessing that I can use to empower, heal, ground and connect with myself and others. This is one the greatest and most hidden of gifts, made active by our willingness to bless and be blessed. A blessing is an invocation, it is a calling forth of the divine and sacred space. As O'Donhue reminds us "each person has a unique intimacy with God" may we each know the power and blessing of sacred intimacy.


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