There are no exceptions.
Being totally accepting sounds a lot like being totally loving.
It is all the same thing. We are using different words to describe the same experience. Love
and acceptance are interchangeable concepts.
In order to change something, you must first accept that it is there. In order to love
something, you must do the same thing.
You cannot love the part of yourself that you claim is not there, that you disown. You have
disowned many parts of yourself that you do not wish to claim. In disclaiming those parts of
yourself, you have made it impossible to totally love yourself—and thus, to totally love
another.
Deborah Ford wrote a wonderful book on this subject called The Dark Side of the Light
Chasers. It is about people who are seeking the Light, but don’t know how to deal with their
own “darkness,” don’t see the gift there. I recommend this book to everybody. It can change
lives. It explains in very clear and understandable terms why acceptance is such a blessing.
It is a blessing! Without it, you would be damning yourself, and others. Yet through love and
acceptance, you bless all those whose lives you touch. When you become totally loving and
totally accepting, you become totally blessing—and this renders you and everyone else
totally joyful.
Everything flows together, everything connects to everything else, and you are beginning to
see and to understand that all of the Five Attitudes of God are really one and the same. They
are what Cod is.
The aspect of God that is totally blessing is that aspect which condemns nothing. In God’s
world there is no such thing as condemnation, only commendation. You are all to be
commended for the work you are doing, for the job you are doing, getting to know and to
experience Who You Really Are.
Whenever anything bad would happen around my mother, she would always say, “God bless
it!” Everyone else would say, “God dammit!”, but Mom would say, “God bless it!”
One day I asked her why. She looked at me as if she couldn’t quite comprehend how I could
ask the question. Then, with the love and patience of one explaining something to a small
child, she answered, “I don’t want God to damn it. I want God to bless it. That’s the only thing
that will make it any better.”
Your mother was a very “aware” person. She understood many things.
Co now, and bless all things in your life. Remember, I have sent you nothing but angels, and
I have brought you nothing but miracles.
How does one go about blessing things? I don’t understand what that’s about, what those
words mean.
You give something your blessing when you give it your best energies, your highest thoughts.