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.

All Blessings
a blessing for when love makes you brave
a blessing for when you’ve lost someone far too soon
a blessing for when you suffer alone
a blessing for life after a loss
a blessing for palm sunday
a blessing for easter Sunday
a blessing for aging gracefully
a blessing for when you might not know how to pray (or want to)
a blessing for those who care about strangers
a blessing for your great, big, dumb heart
a blessing for mother’s day
for the courage to do something difficult
a blessing for when today already feels like too much
a blessing for when we lose ourselves in other people’s problems
a blessing for the kind of love that costs something
a blessing for telling the truth (no matter how bitter or sweet)
a blessing for the courage to try
A blessing for being someone’s person (here or gone, we love you)
a blessing for when you might not be kind today
a blessing for learning to delight again
a blessing for if you happen to be having an ordinary day
a blessing for when it’s not fair
a blessing for the start of a new school year
a blessing for when the road is long
a blessing for everyday empathy (because, hey, SENSITIVITY ISN’T A BAD THING)
a blessing for when you wake up tired (again, today)
a blessing for when you’re different now
a blessing for when faith breaks your heart
a blessing for when things don’t add up
a blessing when you need a little motivation to change
a blessing for when love makes us afraid
a blessing when you want to belong
a blessing when you have to learn to say “no”
a blessing for when things don’t make any sense
a blessing for care-givers and care-receivers
a blessing for around the table
a blessing for an unfinishable day
a blessing for when your family disappoints you
a blessing for when you want to wake up to wonder
a blessing for when you’re tired of broken systems
an advent blessing when you need a little hope
a blessing for christmas day
a blessing for when you want to change
a blessing for being human
a blessing for a little boost in the morning
a blessing for friends who hold us up
a blessing for when you’re feeling grouchy
a blessing for those who keep watch over the sick
a blessing for all the firsts without a loved one
a blessing for this beautiful, limited day
a blessing for the lives we didn’t choose
a blessing for when it’s too much to handle
a blessing for the safety of the people of Afghanistan
a blessing for when you’re scared your kids won’t get the school year they need
a blessing for that space of yes/and
a blessing for courage
a blessing for when there’s no cure for being human
a blessing for when there’s no cure for being human
a blessing for when you just need to put one foot in front of the other
a blessing for the grace that makes no sense
a blessing for learning to delight again.
permission to feel it all
a blessing for the day we mourn our dead (All Saints’ day)
a blessing for life after loss
a blessing for learning to hold on and let go
a blessing for the brave
a blessing for when you’re tired of waiting for the world to get better
a blessing for a chaotic season
a blessing for when you realize everyone is struggling
a blessing for keeping your heart soft when everything is broken
a blessing for when you want to change (but not become a self-help perfectibility monster)
a blessing for the life you have
a blessing for becoming real
a blessing for loving what Is (instead of what could have been…)
a blessing for the in-between
a valentine blessing (when it’s complicated)
a blessing for when we need to feel good enough
a blessing for Ukraine
a blessing for when you mourn what could have been (and it needs to feel okay to say that)
a prayer for when you feel invisible
a blessing for when you don’t feel #blessed
a blessing for the body
a blessing for palm sunday
a blessing for easter Sunday
a blessing as lent begins
a blessing to take what you need
a blessing for when your family disappoints you
a blessing for when you need to put one foot in front of the other
a blessing for an ordinary day (because something terrible is not happening for once)
a blessing for if you are in pain
a blessing for collective grief (when thoughts and prayers are not enough)
a blessing for when you’re running on fumes
a blessing when hope seems lost
a blessing for ordinary people in a world of pain
a blessing when your family disappoints you
a blessing for teachers in a pandemic
a blessing for when disaster strikes
a blessing for pastors in a pandemic
a pandemic blessing when it feels hard to be loving
a blessing for when violence is done in the name of Jesus
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