Perhaps my favorite way to offer prayers of supplication is through the art of blessing. Blessings are rare for most of us today, and yet human life was once saturated with blessings. We might have been blessed before setting off on a journey, at the start of a meal, before getting married, or at the arrival of Shabbat. “With the demise of religion, many people are left stranded in a chasm of emptiness and doubt; without rituals to recognize, celebrate, or negotiate the vital thresholds of people’s lives,” writes John O’Donohue in his book To Bless the Space Between Us. “This is where we need
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