Blessings

We love to bless the crap out of you. Below you’ll find blessings for garbage days, lovely days, grief-stricken days, and even (especially) completely ordinary days. These heartfelt words of prayer and hope are a chance to exhale when we feel everything from careworn to restless, devastated to bored. Let’s have a reminder that we don’t need to wait for perfect lives when we can bless our actual ones.

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Kate’s Latest book of blessings

The Lives We Actually Have

100 Blessings for Imperfect Days

Warm and witty blessings found within the struggles of our shared humanity, from the New York Times bestselling authors of Good Enough. Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie offer creative, faith-based blessings that center gratitude and hope while acknowledging our real, messy lives. Formatted like a prayer book, The Lives We Actually Have is an oasis and a landing spot for weary souls, with blessings that focus on the full range of human moments: garbage days, lovely days, grief-stricken days, and even (especially) completely ordinary days. These heartfelt blessings are a chance to exhale when we feel everything from careworn to restless, devastated to bored.

If you are looking for a book of blessings you can hold on to and return to again and again and give to others, this is for you. Let’s have a reminder that we don’t need to wait for perfect lives when we can bless the lives we actually have.

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