Lately I’ve been reclaiming blessing, not as something we get if we’re lucky or pious enough. But blessing as a gift by which we honor one another. It is taking something ordinary and pronouncing it remarkable, sacred. Barbara Brown Taylor says the act of blessing is not so much the work of conferring holiness as it is the hope-filled task of recognizing and acknowledging the holiness already there.

What if we release that other notion of blessing, the one that can make us feel small or unseen by God? What if instead we look for ways to “share in God’s audacity,” to boldly call the world around us good? 

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• This reflection and practice were also published this week in The Slow Way Newsletter.
• Read An Altar in the World by Barbara Brown Taylor
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