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The Lives We Actually Have

100 Blessings for Imperfect Days

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The Lives We Actually Have

By: Kate Bowler, Jessica Richie
Narrated by: Kate Bowler, Jessica Richie
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About this listen

 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.

*Includes a downloadable PDF of a psalm list from the book Christian Living Christianity Devotional

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This beautiful book is one I will collect in all its forms. Listening to it has been a delight but it’s one I also want to pick up and look at, tangibly reading the blessings for each kind of day, mood, or season. Hearing the author’s voices was what I needed right now though and the helpfulness of hearing a blessing as a live my life is something I know I’ll return to. This is a real, gentle, witty book of simple truth and it feels like a treasure.

Helpful in the real deep down soulful kind of way

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