Morning Blessing Gift Of History

Morning Blessing Gifts awaken, stimulate and deepen meditation and spiritual practice. The meditations provide a friendly, comforting and accessible way to wake up and affirm the whole self. Each blessing has seven brief paragraphs that offer a welcome to the day, a silent meditation, affirmations of body, heart and soul, a blessing and a gift for each day. The track begins and ends with a ring of a singing bowl.

Transcript

Welcome to this new day,

Here at last.

Consider how much inertia this day has,

How it is simply another day in the endless succession of days.

The sights and sounds that now herald its beginning have such a stellar history,

A history that,

Right now,

You are joining.

Powerful as the past is,

It exists only in our silent memory.

Bring the silence of the ages into this present moment,

So that it covers you in a cloak woven of threads made from intimacy and love.

Imagine all the people who have paused,

Like you do now,

To sit and become more in touch with themselves.

Remember how much in common we all have,

Our legs and arms to move us through the world,

Our waist and middle holding our organs,

Our head with our brains and senses.

The link with our ancestors is emotional,

Too.

You join with so many when you feel love,

Resentment,

And sadness.

Feelings belong to us all.

It is not only your love,

Your resentment,

Your sadness,

But also our love,

Our resentment,

And our sadness.

And so does loneliness turn into community.

Even more so does spirit connect and protect us.

Across time and space,

Spirit moves,

Inspires,

And directs us,

If only we will give it time and space.

Today,

Offer these simple gifts to your spirit.

May you feel a part of life today,

One of many.

Your gift today is history.