Short story: God's blessings

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The Reverend, Tony Aspinall, was giving his weekly sermon, on the topic of God's blessings. Here is what he said, that day. "We would all like to be blessed by God, but are we worthy of receiving his blessings, is a question we might ask ourselves first." "When our connection to God, and to our fellow man, is strongly based on love, God's blessings naturally flow to us then too." "Any setbacks in our lives, are less painful, when we realise that God is still blessing us, even during such misfortunes." "After a period of work, we should rest, even as God, rests too." "But, resting within yourself does nothing for you, if that rest is also not connected to God, via your soul, so that God's love pours into you then. Without this connection, you rest, restlessly so." "Your connected rest periods are also blessings from God." "God's love is God's highest form of blessing to you." "We are only afraid until we experience love, and its blessings." "All blessing is at its core only a form of acceptance. Acceptance is loving things exactly as they are. If we accept all life just as it comes to us, we will then find that every part of it is a blessing for us." "Acceptance after all is only awareness." "The more that we grow in our awareness, the more that we can accept all things as being perfectly right just as they are. The more that we see the right in all things, the more we will love all things." "When we love all things, we are always blessed from the loving." "There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes something like this," '''As our prayers go up, God's blessings come down.''' "God's blessings last forever, but we should continually renew ours and infuse them with renewed love as we give them out over and over again. Blessings like love are always free for us to give out to another." "Blessings bring us encouragement, strengthen our beliefs, and help us to remove our doubts." "There is an Irish blessing that reads like this:" '''May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.''' "It is when we have created holes in our heart and our lives from our fears and our doubts, that we allow these fish of love not to escape, but not now to be noticed. Love is such that it never tries to ever escape." "No net was ever needed to catch love, but when we concentrate too much on needing a net or searching for love, we often then focus on what we think is missing from love, or from our own lives. In short, we are only looking at the holes in our net, when in truth, we never even needed a net." "Everything in our life is blessing us, if we see everything from the eyes of love." "Life plays itself out in a way, that sometimes appears to work against us, but when we are soldiers of God, staying under his Captaincy, we realise that both the good, and the bad, can be blessings for us, when we see them as giving us the chance to learn something great from them." And with that, his sermon was completed. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com The chapel, that the sermon was given in, was a beautiful one too.