Blessings

Your card today was drawn from the 'Mary, Queen of Angels' deck, authored by Doreen Virtue.  Your card is the 'Blessings' card, and Doreen's message for the card is this:
"Today, I count my blessings, small and large, and I notice the new gifts that come to me from God."

My message for you today is this:
It has come up in your messages a great deal lately about the power of GRATITUDE  as manifestation energy, and Mother Mary reminds us of that today.  When we look at the world from a place of gratitude, rather than from a place of 'lack', our whole persona and personal energy shifts.  When we count our blessings, we attract more blessings...it is that simple and that profound!  No matter the circumstances in your life, you can always reach to find something to be grateful for...Nelson Mandela was the epitome of this.  Of course, he was bitter and angry for a time---we are in this physical experience, and are meant to experience all emotions---but he didn't RESIDE in those feelings.  Nelson made the choice to become self-empowered by searching for the blessings within his dire situation while he was incarcerated and thus attracted to him the circumstances that called for his release and consequent impact as a world leader advocating equality and peace.  He had FAITH that he would draw to him what he could not see yet, even as he looked to the blessings within his current situation.  Dr. Wayne Dyer is credited with the saying, 'When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."  He is really just speaking to perspective and to 'counting your blessings', and how doing so completely shifts your energy and mood. This is not to say that, as human beings, we never drop into frustration or impatience---allow yourself to have that moment and to experience and acknowledge it, but do not stay in that energy.  Make the conscious choice to focus upon the blessings that you have been given and those that you are about to receive.  Mother Mary, having lived through some difficult life circumstances during her time here on Earth, understands this experience.  Call upon her to guide you in seeing, embracing and being thankful for the blessings that the Universe has expressed to you.  What area or circumstance in your current life situation are you dissatisfied or frustrated with?  Make the commitment to YOURSELF today, to look for the blessings within that situation and to express gratitude for those blessings, as you have FAITH that you are attracting additional blessings to you.  If you struggle to see the blessings within a certain situation, then follow the advice of the gifted time-lapse cinematographer, Louis Schwartzberg, who states that nature is our greatest healer.  Through the images that he has captured on film over the past 3 decades, he reveals to us the incredible beauty that nature has to offer us.  He has witnessed and captured for us the many blessings being offered to us through Nature...  Express your gratitude for the blessing of bearing witness to a radiant sunrise or sunset; the first blooms of spring crocuses that you encounter; a distinctive cloud formation in the sky; the return of the Canada Geese as they honk overhead to herald that Spring is coming; the sound of rushing water during the Spring thaw... Nature has much to offer in terms of beauty expressed in the physical and we seldom take the time to NOTICE and see the blessings.  Today you are being encouraged to take the time to notice.  Count your blessings, with the assistance and support of the benevolent Mother Mary and a Universe that truly loves you and wishes the best for you!  To do so invites greater blessings into your life (and doesn't it just FEEL better when you are in the energy of gratitude?)
Blessed be...