A lesson on blessing.

  God bless you. I mean no disrespect, but if for each time I have had those words said to me I got a feather for a wing Instead, I am certain now I would have attained the ability to fly. This words come together to form the mantra of 'Christiandom'. It is the badge of spirituality, and the sword of vengeance. It's purpose being determined by the circumstance which commands it.
    It often punctuates meetings and partings when we come across our very Christian folks. Your partner at the bar down the road uses it after he has gone AWOL for a week to show he was in the interim kidnapped by the spirit. Your conversation will be uncomfortably punctuated with 'bless you' as you ask where he's been, and he relates to you how he has just gotten his visa to eternal life. Alas, two days later he resumes without remorse, acts like it never happened, and conveniently forgets to bless you ever after.
     When your room mate returns from fellowship, and in-between her belting out of praises showers you with the words ' God bless you ',  You believe they are sincere until she settles down to her dinner, and you ask for some; At that point, she quickly reminds you the left over is for her breakfast. You turn on your hungry stomach and mutter a goodnight to which she would cheerily reply 'thank you and God bless' .
        Let's not forget, when that child cleans your windscreen on a dusty,sunny day in traffic. When he's done, you roll down your window allowing him to feel some of the cool air-conditioning as you tell him God bless you (with no paper bills attached) and roll the glass back up, in-between muttering under your breath how they worsen visibility with their good intentions.
       The worst is when you are at the receiving end of an offensive version. The manner which it is said makes it clear it is not a call of blessings in the least. when you are a defaulter in this case, you would be more comfortable had you been cursed rather than negatively blessed.
      It's been a long time (if ever) God came down to bless anyone in person. Thus, when next you're tempted to say the words 'God bless you' , hold it back, and be a blessing instead. Words are not worth the dust from two fifty kobo coins being rubbed together. Be the reason someone blesses God by being a blessing. I'm sure it'd mean more than saying ' God bless you '.