Learning Felicity

Sunday, June 24, 2012

“Lift the hem of your garment to receive” God’s abounding gifts and favors

To count our blessings is to understand the true meaning of infinity and life!

Gratitude and appreciation begins when we empower our attitudes and visions with positive energies and optimism, pausing with eager and active vigilance, natural humility and fair recognition to count our blessings, not taking for granted anyone, and anything, not a bit, not a moment of our lives. Such a spirit and celebration of life is the secret of true longevity and real youth. After all what relates to the time and the place, is only relative, very passing and so mortal a condition, and the age units and counts of birth years and the adding months and days are merely physical contracts—which are there for certain purposes and needed order in life of course, but really are not more, are less. Stepping up a bit or two above the worldly grounds and its bumps and pompous rocks, we change how they operate and influence us and our moods. We sit then in command and take charge in altering their rules by rising in thoughts and spirits, widening visions and spreading wings to consort with stars, and living in the joy of becoming a one we follow the Moon!

“The earth is in the motion and growth; the mountains, hills and prairies are green and pleasant; the bounty is overflowing; the mercy universal; the rain is descending from the cloud of mercy; the brilliant Sun is shining; the full moon is ornamenting the horizon of ether; the great ocean-tide is flooding every little stream; the gifts are successive; the favors consecutive; and the refreshing breeze is blowing, wafting the fragrant perfume of the blossoms. Boundless treasure is in the hand of the King of Kings! Lift the hem of thy garment in order to receive it.” (`Abdu’l-Baha; “Baha’i World Faith”, p. 351)