Blessings

"Rest in peace" is a blessing for the living, not the dead, because rest comes from waking, not from sleeping. Sleep is withdrawing; waking is joining.

Dreams are illusions of joining, because they reflect the ego's distorted notions about what joining is.

Yet the Holy Spirit, too, has use for sleep, and can use dreams on behalf of waking if you will let Him.

In any instant I can remember I am blessed, this morning sitting by the river with my bowl of paw-paw, I see the water families with their off-spring these tiny ducks and other water fowls that so wonderfully demonstrating the blessings all around me.

These tiny creature staying close to their parents bobbing on the flow of the water, are a sight to behold, at the slightest idea of intrussion they move as a closed unit, away to another shore.

Next to the waters edge is a large willow tree who bows ever gracefully in the wind, to speak of the love of God, and overhead in the sky all that flies dives and rises on that flow of blessings that invites again and again the source of all that is.