139 – How often do you actually bless the people in your life?

And what about loving and blessing your enemies? 

The real question is "Why should we bless our enemies and how do we do it?"

My guest this week, Pierre Pradervand, talks about how he discovered the power of blessing everyone he meets. It all started when someone undermined him at work. At first Pierre was really mad and full of resentment.

But he was reminded of Jesus's command to love and bless our enemies. As he did this, he found a freedom from hatred. 

Then he started blessing everyone he passed on the street, the people on the bus and at the grocery store. It has changed his life.

Pierre now helps others learn to love and bless in this way.

His book, The Gentle Art of Blessing, shares more of his story and many examples of his own and people he has helped.

Here are some of the questions and topics we talked about:

• Is it possible to love and bless someone like Vladimir Putin 
• Is it okay to bless ourselves? 
• What does it really mean to bless someone?
• The highest form of prayer
• Two mystical experiences in which Pierre experienced a deep all-encompassing divine love
• The real structure of the universe is spiritual
• The biggest blessing in his life
• Why people feel separated from God

Here are a couple of quotes:

“Blessing is a way of sending unconditional love, peace, healing, goodness to a person or a situation, or simply seeing them bathe in the love.”

“Blessing is not something we do to attract good into our life; that would be attempting to manipulate the universe. However, the result will be that you will find more and more harmony pouring into your life. You will find greater peace of mind, greater poise.”

Bible references in this week's episode. Check them out at thebiblespeakstoyou.com/139.

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