Mankind is blessed

He created them male and female and blessed them. 1 Mos 5,2

I was chatting online with a Muslim woman from Malaysia, and when the chat was finished she said: Thanks for your time. God bless you.

Another time I got the same greeting from an Indian yogi and even from a non-believer(?) in China.  I am sure those three words – God bless you - were not just an empty saying. All those people wanted to give me their very best wish.  And they touched my heart.

May be there deep into our collective memory is a dim idea that we all are blessed. A human being is a blessed being. The concepts about God can be very different, even absent. But still there exists a common idea about receiving a superhuman blessing.

Today people all over the world are connected in a new way. We are travelling across borders. We are sending messages around the globe.  This is a new opportunity to enlighten our collective memory and to renew those ancient words. God bless you. A wish that like a compass shows us the right direction of thinking and acting.

In that wish we will find our deepest roots as humans and the reason for our dignity. A blessed man should not be hated or humiliated. A blessed man ought to be respected and honored. To be blessed means to experience the fullness of life. Today billions of poor and suffering people are waiting for this blessing.

God bless you. Ancient words for modern man

2013, February 9