Blessings

Blessings for a Baby's First Christmas: 45 Warm Words
Blessings for a Baby's First Christmas: 45 Warm Words
A blessing for a baby's first Christmas is a short spoken or written wish for a baby's wellbeing in the year ahead: warmth, rest, health, and love. It tends to... Read more...
37 Blessings for a Christmas Church Service
37 Blessings for a Christmas Church Service
A blessing for a Christmas church service is a short prayer or pronouncement of God's favor spoken over the people in the room at one specific moment: the welcome, the... Read more...
45 Blessings for a Thanksgiving Family Gathering
45 Blessings for a Thanksgiving Family Gathering
A Thanksgiving blessing is a short table grace said once everyone is seated and before the plates start moving. It usually runs 20 to 40 seconds, and it does not... Read more...
51 Blessings for a Grieving Friend at Christmas
51 Blessings for a Grieving Friend at Christmas
A Christmas blessing for a grieving friend doesn't try to brighten the season. It makes room for the loss and the celebration to sit alongside each other, and it tells... Read more...
37 Blessings for a Baby's First Christmas
37 Blessings for a Baby's First Christmas
A baby's first Christmas lasts a single season, then belongs to the family stories forever. The blessings people speak and write during that season tend to be the ones that... Read more...
41 Blessings for a Hanukkah Family Celebration
41 Blessings for a Hanukkah Family Celebration
At a Hanukkah family celebration, the blessings most people mean are the candle-lighting blessings, recited before the candles are lit. On the first night, three are traditionally said; on each... Read more...
37 Diwali Blessings for a Family Celebration
37 Diwali Blessings for a Family Celebration
Short Diwali Blessings to Start With The best blessings for a Diwali family celebration are often the shortest ones: a sentence spoken at the door, a line before the meal,... Read more...
51 Blessings for the First Thanksgiving After Loss
51 Blessings for the First Thanksgiving After Loss
A blessing for the first Thanksgiving after loss does not have to be long. One sentence is enough: name the person you are missing, say one true thing about the... Read more...
Blessings for a Quiet Christmas: 45 Gentle Words to Share
Blessings for a Quiet Christmas: 45 Gentle Words to Share
A quiet Christmas blessing is a short wish for peace, rest, and gentle hope. It suits someone who has chosen a low-key holiday, and equally someone whose Christmas has been... Read more...
41 Blessings for a Christmas Wedding: Warm and Faith-Filled
41 Blessings for a Christmas Wedding: Warm and Faith-Filled
Blessings for a Christmas wedding are short spoken or written lines that ask for good things over a couple marrying in the holiday season. They belong in the places a... Read more...
55 Thanksgiving Blessings to Say, Send, and Share
55 Thanksgiving Blessings to Say, Send, and Share
A good Thanksgiving blessing does one thing: it names what is in front of you and says thank you for it. That can be two sentences spoken over a table,... Read more...
47 Blessings for Christmas Morning With Children
47 Blessings for Christmas Morning With Children
If you are looking for the words to say over your children on Christmas morning, start here. These 47 blessings for Christmas morning with children cover the moment they wake... Read more...