Are YOU Blessed?

A      L      O      H      A    !

" Blessed are they who see beautiful things

 in humble places 

where other people see nothing. "

Camille Pissarro

" Blessed are those who give

 without remembering 

and take 

without forgetting. "

Elizabeth Bibesco

" Blessed is the influence

 of one true, loving human soul 

on another. "

George Eliot

" Self-acceptance 

has been a blessed by-product 

of middle age. "

Candice Bergen

 " The person who can bring

 the spirit of laughter

 into a room

 is indeed 

blessed. "

Bennett Cerf

" If I choose to bless another person,

 I will always end up feeling

 more blessed. "

Marianne Williamson

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So what is this thing?

This state of being
 "blessed."

There seems more than luck to it.

So what is it?

How do you know

if YOU are blessed?

Turn around (bear with me)

look back over the past day,

the week, the year,

back over your life.

What have you left

in YOUr wake?


 Accomplishments?

Regret?

Look 
and ask yourself

if you have left

Peace 
behind you.

If you have looked for the best,

instead of for blame,

(or to be right)

If you have de-escalated

rather than letting them 
"have it"

If you have refrained

from easy superiority,

and from jumping
 to the head of the line.

Then I think you may just

be blessed.

Someone once said:

"Blessed 
are the peace makers.

Someone once

was right.

Thank YOU for visiting here,

May Peace follow YOU

wherever you go.

                   Warmly, cloudia