Blessings And Gratitude

Blessings come in many forms. You can receive blessings and send blessings. You also can do blessings for homes and businesses. It is always so valuable to allow spirit to work through you when you give, receive, or do blessings. When you understand blessings, you can enhance gratitude for life and all the bounties of living. I share some poems on blessings and a song I wrote.

Transcript

Aloha.

I am Reverend Cindy Paulus and I want to talk about the gift of gratitude and the gift of blessings.

I've been meditating a lot on this.

We have been seeing a wonderful explosion of people who understand the power of gratitude.

Breathing in,

Being grateful,

Holding it and allowing yourself to be aware of something to be grateful for and breathing it out,

Just breathing it out and just holding your hand on your heart and breathing in and allowing that gratitude for everything,

All the lessons,

All the light in the world to fill you.

As you breathe out,

You start to feel a change,

A bit of that spirit coming alive as you open your heart to the blessings that are present in gratitude.

And as we breathe in gratitude for the count of five,

Hold it and allow that light of gratitude to come through you as you breathe out the blessings that come with gratitude throughout all of your body.

Ah,

Feeling good.

Breathing in gratitude,

Count to five,

Holding it and allowing yourself with that gratitude to be in the light of all the blessings that are present in your life and being grateful for them as you breathe out.

Breathing in gratitude and allow the light of the blessings of the entire cosmos to be present as you breathe out the blessings throughout all of your body.

Breathing in the light of gratitude,

Allowing that light to go way up,

Up,

Up,

And then bringing the blessings down through all of your body and down your spine and down your legs and your feet and out.

Breathing in that light of gratitude and let it come in front of you and behind you and around you.

Circling you with a wonderful light from that gratitude that is present as you are aware of that light of gratitude.

And now allow all the beautiful blessings of being alive to come through you.

I'm going to read a poem that I wrote,

Which really makes it possible to be aware of the blessings.

Blessings of love.

Blessings of light and blessings of joy.

The anointed one is the one who allows the essence of the soul to fill their being with the nectar of God's sweet,

Sweet song of love.

It's a song of awakening.

It's the birth of the light of the world.

It's the mantle of the ones who travel the path of God and walk the way of the mystic traveler.

In the new dawn,

See the Holy Spirit come to you and feel the breath of God speak to you and renew you for you are newly anointed.

And when you release the past,

Embrace the heart of truth with the acceptance of love.

Smile with your awareness that you are part of God and thank God for the gift of your life and all the many gifts you've been given.

Be grateful and bless all of God's creation in the entire universe.

Build the universe with your love and bless the earth,

The moon,

The planets,

And the sun.

Bless the stars and the celestial bodies.

Bless the trees,

The plants,

The flowers,

The waters,

The ones who swim in the ocean,

The birds,

And all the winged ones who fly.

Bless the four-legged ones and all the animals.

Bless the insects and the ones who crawl.

Bless all of humanity and all of life on earth and send your love out to all things throughout all time and space.

Throughout all time and space and throughout all dimensions and celebrate that gift,

The holy gift of freedom,

The gift of life,

Love,

And your healing now and forever.

And so it is.

Now,

We were doing an energy work there.

Now,

Gratefulness is something where you become aware of a gift that you've been given,

Of a blessing you've been given as well.

So a blessing can be something that you're grateful for.

Now,

That blessing can come in the form of maybe you got a gift that you love.

Maybe you got some money.

Maybe you got a chance to win something.

Maybe you just realized that you're lucky to have a place to live,

That you're able to be alive,

That you're able to breathe in and breathe out,

That you can see the beauty of a flower.

So many wonderful things to be grateful for,

Right?

When we're grateful,

We are many times aware that this is a blessing in our life.

But being grateful and being aware of a blessing is not the same as sending out a blessing and being grateful for someone that is outside,

Right?

So there's inner gratefulness and there's inner blessings that we can be aware of.

And then there's the option to send gratitude,

To send especially blessings.

In the Hawaiian tradition,

We do blessings for many,

Many things.

We do blessings for,

Well,

Weddings.

We do blessings for new businesses.

We do blessings for a baby.

We do blessings for many things.

When you move into a new house,

You do a clearing and a blessing of the house.

And it's very different than just saying bless something.

When you're doing a blessing as a minister,

Or in a way they say kahu,

When you're doing a blessing,

You're taking a space and time and bringing in a higher energy and calling upon the highest forces to come in and be present and do the work to bless the area so good things can happen.

And sometimes those blessings can be kind of hard.

If you've had a place to bless that's gone through some very difficult,

Hard things.

I know some ministers have been blessing some of the places that were burnt down in the fires in Lahaina.

It takes a lot to remove an energy field that had trauma and thoughts of energy and people who died,

Especially.

You have to work hard to clear that and release it.

And that might mean clearing it on a couple of levels or dimensions even and freeing it to be released.

And when you do a blessing here in Hawaii,

You call upon the highest energy and typically you chant and you do that.

But you start with a blowing a pua,

A horn,

A conch shell usually.

And you blow it in all four directions to cover the four directions.

And that is a very powerful sound.

I don't know how many times you've heard the sound of a conch shell but it's a powerful sound that goes very much through you.

I can feel it when I blow a conch shell.

I feel it through my whole body reverberating.

So it's a powerful sound.

So with that sound you start that energy clearing and then when you call in the ancestors,

The high beings,

And you do that chant you're calling in higher energies as well.

And then you take a tea leaf typically and you'll take it and dip it in sacred water which could be from a river or from an ocean.

And you'll take that tea leaf and you'll bless in a house.

It'd be the four corners,

Especially the bathroom,

The sinks,

The kitchens.

And you bless the entire house.

You take that tea leaf and you dip it in.

Now you may have to sage it as well.

Many teachers,

Ministers sage the area as well.

And then afterwards you bring the people who are going to be present in the area together to be part of it and to join it and to also call in the good energy.

And then you seal it and you take the tea leaves and you tie the tea leaves to the front door till they actually get dried out and old.

You tie it typically with a red string.

Now at a wedding they wouldn't be tying the tea leaf to the people but you will just do the blessings with the water and then you're through at the end and you say thank you God.

And that's complete.

And it's an interesting thing to see because when you do a blessing there is something like this energy that comes through you.

So if you were going to send a blessing to someone,

You wouldn't be blessing them or sending blessings just from your personality self,

Your lower self.

You'd be calling upon the highest energy to send the blessings.

And then at the end you free it just like you free a prayer.

A mama,

A mama,

Ua noa.

The prayer is freed.

Same for blessings.

You free it because you're letting it get free,

To fly free,

To do its work.

It's no longer you,

You know,

You're not doing it.

It's the energy carrying on its work from spirit.

So blessings have a lot of wonderful things that happen and you know it's such a gift to.

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I sign most of my emails now blessings because at some point it gets out of what you're doing and it's getting the energy coming through you to bless the area.

I wrote this poem,

The blessings of blessings are present and shared when we are aware.

What happens when form and spirit create while we're on earth here?

Miracles can happen with right intent and love if we're open to learn from the lessons that come.

We are formed by creation,

Our thoughts shape our life and informed by being aware of the infinite blessings present and being alive.

Because there are infinite blessings and the more aware you become,

The more you're in that space that you're tied into the place of the highest energy.

And that energy field is a very sacred place and you start to be aware of that.

I mean the blessings present or sent already are here right now.

They couldn't happen if they weren't already present in this very moment.

And that's the way we can breathe them in and we can also manifest them by believing in them as well.

Because if we believe the blessings already are,

We're making the field of energy that allows them to happen.

We're connecting to that place where what has to happen will happen.

I wrote another poem called,

I'm grateful for the blessings.

Because I'm grateful for the blessings given,

Especially when they're offered in the way that I can see the beauty that surrounds me.

I'm learning to be grateful on how life teaches me to accept all these lessons and to just let things be.

No matter what I think,

It's really not up to me to judge how others live their lives.

We all have different beliefs.

The more I understand,

The more blessings I accept.

How life reveals what I need to heal.

I'm grateful for the rest.

And the process,

So powerful,

Is present and I bow in gratitude for this and all the things that get me through to love that good that is alive in me and you.

Now that's part of the idea is,

Okay,

It's easier to be grateful for the blessings when you're having things go right.

But when challenges come up and when there's things that happen and you get lost in the drama of the challenges,

Whatever they may be,

You know,

I mean,

It's just been so many challenges.

We can take our pick easily,

Right?

For here was the fires.

There's wars,

You know.

I mean,

There's so many challenges in all of life.

There's many people experiencing PTSD and overload and stress more and more and more.

So when you're in that drama and it's starting to break loose and come out in your life,

You're going to have to take some time to clear it and release it and to bless it and to let it go.

Because in that challenge there were some lessons that you learned.

The hardest part of being grateful and understanding blessings is blessing the hard lessons.

Blessing the challenges.

Knowing that they're there to help you get stronger.

It's a hard lesson.

I get amazed.

I've been doing this work since I was 13 and it does not get easier.

It just seems the more you are able to reach higher lights,

There's more darkness that will come in to try to block you.

It's an amazing process and it goes on and on.

It's kind of like the hero's journey,

Right?

Joseph Campbell and the hero's journey.

But I guess the hero wouldn't appreciate the ending and the success without having gone through the valley of darkness and having to overcome the challenges.

And that's why the dramas are all based around that.

The ones we watch on TV and movies are often based on the hero's journey.

So that's part of this movie we're living,

Right?

And it's important not to get lost in that valley.

Not to be brought down by that darkness.

Not to buy into it.

Not to freak out.

Or if you do,

To realize what's happening and just let it go.

Not to obsess over it and obsess over it,

But to release it.

So that's what we're doing with our gratitude work.

That's what we're doing with blessings and the recognition of the power of gratitude and the power of recognizing that there are blessings present right here and right now.

And when we're grateful for them,

We are then bringing in that energy of more good and more goodwill and more work to help share the path for others to find those blessings in life.

I send my blessings to you now and always,

My friend.

God bless you,

And I'm so grateful for you being here.

Sacred land of waterfalls,

Volcanic rocks design.

Radiant beauty fill my heart,

Free my busy mind.

Let the spirit come through me,

And let God's joy do its part.

Blessings of life,

Blessings of love divine.

Sacred land of waterfalls,

Volcanic rocks design.

Radiant beauty fill my heart,

Free my busy mind.

Let the spirit come through me,

And let God's joy do its part.

Blessings of great grace,

Protect this holy place.

Heal our lives,

Let us with peace align.

Blessings of life,

Blessings of love divine.

Sacred land of waterfalls,

Volcanic rocks design.

Reviews

Wow, wow, wow, Rev. Cindy your words and presentation plus, the beautiful song sung so heart felt is moving and, a keeper. I will share this with friends and family. You always brighten my day. In Gratitude, Light, Love, Joy and Blessings for all you do 🙏💖💫

A blessing for you
Blessings of love, blessings of light and blessings of joy.
The anointed one is the one who allows the I essence of the soul to fill your being with the nectar of God‘s sweet song
it’s a song of awakening.
It’s the birth of the light
it’s the mantle of the ones who travel the path of God,
And walk the way of the traveler
in the new Dawn,
see the Holy Spirit come to you
and feel the breath of God speak to you
and renew you,
for you are newly anointed,
and when you release the past
embrace the heart of truth with the acceptance of love,
smile with your awareness that you are part of God
And thank God for the gift of your life
and all the many gifts you’ve been given
and bless all of God‘s creation in the entire universe,
full the entire universe with your love
bless the Earth,
the moon, the planets, and the sun
bless the stars and also celestial bodies
bless the trees, the plants, the flowers,
the waters and the ones who swim to swim
the birds and all the winged ones who fly, bless the four-legged ones
and all the animals
bless the insects,
and the ones who crawl
bless all of humanity
and all life on earth
and send your love out to all things
throughout all time of space
throughout all dimensions,
and Celebratethe gift of freedom,
life love, and your healing now and forever.