Are you blessed or cursed? It’s up to you.

All of us live in a state of blessedness or a state of cursedness.

The state in which you live is up to you.

Faith is the difference. People who live under a curse are not aware that the curse is optional, that the power to be free is entirely in their possession.

A person of faith is aware that blessedness and cursedness are a choice.

A person of faith chooses to live in blessedness, no matter how much her circumstances seem like a curse.

Some people are aware that they can choose blessedness, but they’re afraid. At least when you’re cursed, you don’t have much to lose. Cursedness is predictable. Cursedness is oh-so-easy to manipulate into pity. Pity is food for the cursed soul.

A person of faith is a person of courage. She has the courage to lean into her blessedness. She has more to lose, yes, and the accepts that risk because it is a vital sign of life.

People who choose to live in cursedness have hope, but it is a false hope for it threatens the pity and predictability of cursedness. Real hope requires them to believe in their own blessedness. It requires them to gain enough that it would hurt to lose it all. A cursed person’s hope is mere pornography.

People who choose to live in blessedness have real hope. They already demonstrate the courage to love and lose so they can go toward opportunities that seem like threats to people who live in cursedness.

People who choose to live in cursedness have neither faith, nor real hope. Therefore their love is anemic, fleeting, fragile. They have to self-protect too much to truly give away their hearts in selfless service to others. They may master the appearance of love. Look deeper and it is more like sociopathy–a manipulation of others to dump affection and/or pity into the bottomless pit of faithlessness and hopelessness.

People who choose to live in blessedness have the capacity for real love. Selfless love that celebrates the good of others with no need for a “return on investment.” A blessed person has a bottomless supply of love coming from a mysterious place within. She has no need to manipulate affection or pity from without. She is attractive, radiant, safe.

It all starts with you. What do you believe? Are you blessed or curse? The power to decide is yours.