Article January 27, 2014 Issue

Accepting change

Manuela Meier

Recently, I was badly shaken when I learned that my neighbors and friends of 28 years were selling their house to move closer to their children in another state. Over the years they and their three children had been a big part of my life, and letting go was far from easy.

I prayed to really know that “all things work together for good to them that love God” (Romans 8:28), and that I couldn’t be deprived of one iota of God’s infinite goodness.

As I struggled to get going each day, I was helped by rereading parts of a book I treasure. It’s The Gentle Art of Blessing by Pierre Pradervand. He writes: “On awakening, bless this day, for it is already full of unseen good which your blessings will call forth, for to bless is to acknowledge the unlimited good that is embedded in the texture of the universe and awaiting each and all.”

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