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The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days
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About The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings For
Product Description Warm and witty blessings found within the struggles of our shared humanity, from the New York Times bestselling authors of Good Enough Blessed are you, the strange duck. You with the very intense hobbies. Or the collection of movies or mugs or sneakers. You with the hometown or home team that makes you very, very proud. You, my dear, in all your intricacies . . . are a marvel. We live in a world that demands relentless perfection. Happy marriages and easy friendships. Bucket list–level adventures and matching family photos. But what if our actual lives don’t feel very #blessed? Might our everyday existence be worthy of a blessing too? Even an average Tuesday? 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. Let’s have a reminder that we don’t need to wait for perfect lives when we can bless the lives we actually have. About the Author Kate Bowler is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved), No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear), and Good Enough, as well as Blessed and The Preacher's Wife. She is the host of the popular podcast Everything Happens. A Duke University professor, she earned a master's degree in religion from Yale Divinity School and a PhD from Duke University. Jessica Richie is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller Good Enough, the executive director of the Everything Happens Project at Duke Divinity School, and the executive producer of the Everything Happens podcast. She received her MDiv from Duke Divinity School. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. 01 for this ordinary day Lord, here I am. How strange it is, that some days feel like hurricanes and others like glassy seas and others like nothing much at all. Today is a cosmic shrug. My day planner says, rather conveniently, that I will not need you, cry for you, reach for you. Ordinarily, I might not think of you at all. Except, if you don’t mind, let me notice you. Show up in the small necessities and everyday graces. God, be bread. Be water. Be laundry. Be the coffee cup in my hands and the reason to calm down in traffic. Be the gentler tone in my insistence today that people pick up after themselves for once. Be the reason I feel loved when I catch my own reflection or feel my own self-loathing fluttering in my stomach. Calm my mind, lift my spirit, make this dumb, ordinary day my prayer of thanks. “Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.” —Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World 02 for feeling it all Blessed are you who feel things big. You who might feel embarrassment because of how overwhelming things can be. Blessed are you who need reminders that those emotions are not bad or good. They are just . . . information. You feel angry because this is unjust. You feel sad because this is awful. You feel tired because this is exhausting. Your emotions are not wrong or bad or lying to you or telling the full truth. They are giving you a bit of data that you shouldn’t ignore. We love, and lose, and fall, and get back up, and fail, and try again. Your humanity is not an affront. We are reminding ourselves that this is who we are, how we’re made: to feel the pain, the grief, the stress, the risk, the fear, the heartbreak. So, you beautiful creature, here is your permission slip to feel it all. To feel the joy and d
