It is just 7:15 AM and already I feel compelled to share what just happened in my life by the Grace of God this morning. Above are my version of Reiki's Five Precepts. At the bottom will be other versions commonly used. It is on a picture I took decades ago of Applecross, Scotland . A place I spent three joyful days with my husband that are etched in my memory forever and bring a smile to my face when I see it. I had just said these before I did my daily self reiki and after first my dark breakfast, candle lit prayers and holy scripture reading when I looked out the window and saw more Daffodils blooming across the side parking driveway. Rain & cold are due in this afternoon-so I decided to go pick them. A big deal for me, because I haven't been able to walk there in a long time. But with my walker I made it and picked 9 flowers for my sacred space. That alone is God's Grace.
As I came back across the carport I saw something that just 6 months ago would have thrown me into a rage and I would have let it " ruin " my day. But today I decided to let go and let God. I dealt with it calmly, with compassion and kindness. Then I arranged my nine daffodils and placed them in my sacred space. I picked up my " Prayers of Ecstasy " book and started where I'd left off. As you can see this writing fit right in with the 5 precepts. Walking hand in hand with Baha'u'llah and God this fast season. " O peoples of the world! The Sun of Truth hath risen to illumine the whole earth, and to spiritualize the community of man. Laudable are the results and fruits thereof, abundant the holy evidences deriving from this grace. This is mercy unalloyed and purest bounty; it is light for the world and all it's peoples; it is harmony and fellowship, and love and solidarity; indeed it is compassion and unity, and the end of foreignness, it is the being at one, in complete dignity and freedom, with all on earth. The Blessed Beauty saith: " Ye are all the fruits of one tree, the leaves of one branch." Thus hath He likened this world of being to a single tree, and all its people to the leaves thereof, and the blossoms and fruits. It is needful for the bough to blossom, and leaf and fruit to flourish, and upon the interconnection of all aprts ot the world-tree, dependeth the flourishing of leaf and blossom, and the sweetness of the fruit. For this reason must all human beings powerfully sustain one another and seek for everlasting life; and for this reason must the lovers of God in this contingent world become the mercies and the blessings sent forth by that element King of the seen and unseen realms. Let them purify their sight and behold all humankind as leaves and blossoms and fruits of the tree of being. Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help. Let them see no one as their enemy, or as wishing them ill, but think of all humankind as their friends; regarding the alien as an intimate, the stranger as a companion, staying free of prejudice, drawing no lines. In this day, the one favored at the Threshold of the Lord is he who handeth round the cup of faithfulness; who bestoweth , even upon his enemies, the jewel of bounty, and lendeth, even to his fallen oppressor, a helpful hand; it is he who will, even to the fiercest of his foes be a loving friend. These are the teachings of the Blessed Beauty, these are the counsels of the Most Great Name." ~ 'Abdu'l-Baha