Today I will be a blessing.

These are the words that I drew out of a product I have been experimenting with simply called I will cards. They have a gloriously, empowered female standing in the sky holding her light and it swirling all around her. There is a reason I draw women like her at full moon, but that is another blog. Today I will be a blessing…. I thought I should pick a card. There are lots to choose from in the pack of them but it is this one and words matter at the moment event in my creating.

Those of you that have been following my art know that in recent times it has all been about the colouring in industry and the groups I have begun and the people who have come to explore my life and ideas in the images. You also so know that it is all part of my journey to beautiful within that has lead me to this place. Exploring my gift as I see it as a commercial entity and still being true to me…it has all been written or talked about over the past months. And so I find myself thinking what would happen if I pick one of the cards, I wanted to blog on this site still, just about being and things that probably don’t need a place on a website about colouring in and life as it is….etc….etc….so back to my topic: TODAY I WILL BE A BLESSING.

Blessing seems like a big word, it is used by religious types and by famous people and ordinary people also. A blessing is meant to be an action not just something to do when someone sneezes or another person is in a bad situation or you don’t know what to say at the end of an encounter that has been vulnerable and deep. I looked it up in the dictionary when I put it on the card but that isn’t where I first explored the meaning of bless and blessing.

I first was deeply impacted by the almost commanding way it sounds when was reading the Bible. Not always a politically correct thing to admit that I read the Bible and still do….a book of sound philosophy about life that doesn’t contradict so many of the other paradigms that exist about living a full life. I will event admit that I read it to believe it, to find the good in it for me. So many people now read things to disprove them or contradict  them with their own life ideas, but I know who I am and what I am about so I read books and listen to ideas to see why another wants that to hold their life in place.

To bless some is to, in my world view, is to let goodness flow, pay it forward and backward and sideways from what you have and who you are. It is an action. In the context I encountered in it in Genesis 12 (not the band but the first section of the Bible) Abraham was having a conversation with God about his life and his lack of children and God made a promise….Abraham would have children and he would be so blessed that it would be like he was his own nation and it was nothing early he could do for himself. But the part that always stood out to me was that this would happen so he could be a blessing to others. He was blessed so that he might be a blessing….something that implies in the telling of the story of actions that flowed from him. He could choose to keep it to himself but that was not its purpose. He was going to become someone of stature and it was for a purpose….to be a blessing. It is a powerful thing to sit within the idea of, that what we have achieved or been given isn’t really for ‘me’ but as a way to flow it on to others.

A big thing to consider the purpose of our being here as we are now is not about ‘me’ but it is and that in living as ‘me’ in all that is mine in thoughts and words and deeds I share to be a blessing. Entire libraries have been written on the topic with opposing sides and vast lists of how you do it. Very rich and not so rich people are living well off their ability to communicate the idea of why ‘me’ is here and how I get to achieve it. They fill the air waves and the nanoseconds of internet time with words and images telling me how I can manifest their blessing and find their process. But what if it is all so very simple if we take those words that sound very grand in the Bible story and forget all the baggage of years of life and influence have imposed on our thinking.

I am blessed that I might be a blessing to others and today it seems ironic that this is the card I draw. It is a valid and humbling life purpose. It has been the filter for much of my thinking over the years since I met it in that story. It’s meaning for me to live a life that is true to me but isn’t about me. To invent the life that allows me to live what the context of those words and that story really mean…. I think I will need many blogs to explore being a blessing and the story it is in.

It was a story of a man’s awakening from one way of being to beginning to live a life that he did not have a plan for, one that he could not perceive in his circumstances that required him in many ways to become a new person inside to embrace the adventure that he walked after that night of transition…..you are blessed to be a blessing.

But for today, for now, this morning in Brisbane QLD in my garage withe the door open waiting for a friend to come cut a tree down in my yard…for today I will be a blessing…I will walk the adventure to find where my journey to beautiful leads and the colours and the shapes that I find in a life I have no plan for but purpose. I am simply blessed to be a blessing. I am it seems…and that purpose has always been and ever will be….hmmmm. Time to put the kettle on and make a cup of coffee. Time to consider how I make a living of this purpose of mine and how it pays for my house.

Happy Day! I need to sip coffee now.

Sandy