Blessings have been part of my life, my whole church life that is. I’ve had my house blessed and have been to office blessings. I have felt blessed when something or someone appeared in my life. So it is a familiar part of my world. My church world, that is. For some reason I never took I’ve the lesson of blessings to my everyday life. Be proactive with it. I had an experience this last year that confirmed that I need to bless everything. I finally had enough of the dirt in my car that was from all the wonderful plants and rocks I received from friends and went to a gas station with a vacuum cleaner to get rid of the mess. It cost 75 cents to use it. So I put my three quarters in, nothing happened. I went inside the building to get either a refund or get the machine working. There were three people working there. Two where standing behind the counter and the third with hidden in a back room somewhere. Guess who had the key? Yeah, it was the guy in the back room, who wasn’t in any hurry to come out. I know it was three or four minute wait at least. The wait seemed to last an eternity because I was sick and wanted to go back to bed. Anyway, he finally came out and opened the machine and put my three quarters back in and the machine roared into life. So I vacuumed. Of course one time wasn’t enough. Before I put more money into the machine, I stopped and thought about it. Then I blessed my quarters, one at a time. So I blessed quarter number one and put it in the machine. Then I blessed quarter number two and put it in the slot. Immediately, the machine roared into life. My first thought was “Oh my God, blessings do work.” Then my second was “I gained a quarter.” As I was vacuuming, I got a clear message “Render unto Caesar’s what’s Caesar’s.” I’m proud that I only protested once, and then agreed to render the quarter to the gas station attendants. So after the machine stopped, I went back inside to give them the third quarter. The two were very surprised and amazed. I don’t know what ripple effect that quarter had, but I know it blessed them in some way.
I went back a few weeks later to vacuum my car again. I blessed the quarter before I put it in. The quarter just fell out. So I thought maybe I wasn’t concentrating hard enough. So I did it again and again, but got the same result. So I went back inside to tell them the machine wasn’t taking money, all the while thinking, “What went wrong with the blessing?” The guy with the key was the same guy as before. The rain got into the coin box and jammed the quarters. He fixed the problem then made sure I knew that he put an extra quarter in there for me. So blessing those quarters worked, just not as I expected.
I went back to vacuum my car this past weekend. On Saturday, I blest my quarters before using them (It’s a dollar now). I vacuumed my trunk because it was full of dirt and mulch droppings. It was so dirty, that it took the whole five minutes and I didn’t get to the front part of the car. I decided to return another day, to do the rest. Nothing extraordinary happened Saturday, even though I had blest my quarters. I thought well, I don’t know what happened, but I did my part. I went back the following day; there was a man in front of me so I had to wait. When I got to the vacuum cleaner it was still running. He left without using his whole five minutes. I got busy and vacuum the inside of my car, there was enough time left to finish my car. I didn’t have to pay another dollar. It worked again, just not as I expected.
I’m applying blessings to other parts of my ordinary life. Instead of concentrating on the lack of money in my life as I write a check, I bless it. This works for me. My money seems to go farther this way. I’m finding clearances on items I need or a friend says “Hey, do you know if someone needs a (fill in the blank)?” Blessing your money as it leaves you does help you. It may not be immediately, but there will be a shift. Perhaps it is the mind set you have, because when you are blessing something you are not resisting. Give it a try; let me know how it works for you.
