Being totally joyful, loving and accepting all sounds like the same, doesn't it? Well, it is all the same thing. We are using diferent words to describe the same experience. Love and acceptance are interchangeable concepts.
In order to change something, let's first accept that it is there. In order to love something, we do the same thing. We can not love the part of ourselves that we claim is not there, that we disown. We have disowned many parts of ourselves that we do not wish to claim. In disclaiming those parts of ourselves, we have made it impossible to totally love ourselves -- and thus, to totally love another.
There is a book on this subject called The Dark Side of the Light Chasers by Deborah Ford. This book is about those who are seeking the Light, but don't know how to deal with their own "darkness." It explains in very clear and understandable terms why acceptance is such a blessing.
Acceptance is a blessing! Without it, we would be damning ourselves and others. Yet through love and acceptance, we bless all those whose lives we touch. When we become totally loving and totally accepting, we become totally blessing -- and this renders us and everyone else totally joyful.
Everything flows together, everything connects to everything else and we are beginning to see and to understand that all of the Five Blessing Attitudes, the Attitudes of God are really one and the same. They are what God is!
The aspect of God that is totally blessing is that aspect which condemns nothing. In God's world there is no such thing as condemnation. Only commendation! We are all commended for the work we are doing, for the job we are doing, getting to know and to experience Who We Really Are!
Let's now bless all things in our lives. Let's remember that God has sent us nothing but angels, and has brought us nothing but miracles.
How do we go about blessing things? Well, we give something our blessing, when we give it our best energies, our highest thoughts.
How about the things that we hate? Such as war, violence, greed, people who are unkind, policies that are unfair and inhumane. It is hard to give these things our blessing, isn't it? Yet, it is preciesely our best energies and our hightest thoughts which those things need if they are to be changed. We had changed nothing by condemning it. Indeed, we literally condemn it to be repeated! Let's condemn NOTHING! Let's don't judge and neither condemn.
Because we have not condemned something does not mean that we approve of it. It simply means that we refuse to judge it. We may still , on the other hand choose something else. A choice to change does not always have to come out of anger. In fact, our chances of affecting very real change rise in direct proportion to the decrease in our anger.
Human often use anger as their justification to seek change, and judgements as their justification for anger. We have created a lot of drama around this, perceiving injury in order to justify our judgments. Many of us end our relationships this way.
Instead of insisting on first perceiving injury, then moving into judgment, then coming from anger in order to somehow justify the change we seek to make, we can say: "I am complete. The present form of this relationship no longer serves me." It is as if without anger, we cannot have what we want; we cannot change what we don't like. So we build up all sorts of drama around it.
Now I tell you this: Bless, bless, bless your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you. Send them your best energies, and your highest thoughts.
We will not be able to do this, unless we see every person and every life circumstance as a gift; as an angel, and a miracle. When we do, we will move into the fullness of gratitude. We will be totally grateful. The Fifth Blessing Attitude of God -- and the circle will be complete.
