Dear Friends of Montview,

Have you ever considered how many times we use the word Blessed? Or Bless? I would invite you to notice in a day how often you might use this word.

There is the very common response when someone sneezes, we say, "God bless you." In our family we were taught to say "Gesundheit", which is German for an offering or blessing of good health.

In the South we used a phrase, "Well bless their little heart'" which might include a blessing but often was more a phrase to set up an insult in a nice manner.

We might offer we "feel blessed." By family, friends, by health, by our work, employment, house, income there are many ways we might refer to this feeling of being blessed.

As people of faith, we might end a letter with the phrase, "blessings."

It has become a common place word in our culture as well as others. When we traveled to Kenya, there was a song that was sung to us, when we arrived. Barak...which originates in the ancient Hebrew as blessed or blessings. The song's lyrics are that God blesses us in the rain, in the mountains, in the ground we walk on. The point to the song is that we cannot escape the blessings of God. When we had arrived in Kenya they had experienced once of those historical droughts. And so the fact it was raining, they felt was God's blessings upon them.

And what does it mean when there is no rain? When we or our loved ones are not healthy? When poverty exists? Does that mean God is not blessing us in those times?

This Sunday I am preaching on the story of Abram and Sarai and God declaring I will bless you. You will be a blessing. And asking the questions of what does it mean to be blessed? Is it what we think and use this as?

Or maybe there is a profound understanding of love in this phrase.

Barak's -Blessings
Dee
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