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Thanks to everybody who signed up for this week – may these blessings bring you good things!
Once a week, on Wednesday, I bless everyone who has requested it for the current week.
The process is simple:
If you would like to be included in the blessings, leave a comment to the current blessing post by Tuesday at the latest.
I will perform the blessing ceremony at some point on Wednesday, and bless everybody who has left a comment by Tuesday.*
All times listed are in German time (i.e. EST+6, apart from the few weeks a year when the US switches to and from daylight savings at a different time than Germany). Please plan accordingly.
I will only bless people who have explicitly requested it in a comment to the current week’s blessing post. I.e. if you would like to be blessed again next week, you will need to comment again.
(To do that, you can come back at any point during the week. I put up the next Blessing List right when I close the preceding one, so you can sign up for the next blessing whenever it’s convenient for you.)
You can also request blessings for other people (or, for that matter, for pets, plants, …) – as long as you have their explicit consent, or you are their rightful “guardian” (e.g. parents for their underage kids; legal caretakers for people with dementia; owners of pets or gardens for their pets or gardens; …).
So… if you would like to receive my blessings this upcoming Wednesday, or if you have any questions, please leave a comment below!
You can use your real name, a nickname of your choice, or comment anonymously.
Please feel free to also share the link to the Blessing List with other people who are interested in being blessed. Everybody is welcome to sign up.
About the blessing itself: During the ceremony, I send a “generic” blessing to everybody on the list, which also includes intentions for health, protection, and divine guidance. I also respectfully ask for blessings from their respective deities during this general part of the cermony for those who have a relationship with a specific deity or deities.
(If you don’t feel comfortable sharing your personal religious beliefs on a public forum, there is no need to list them, as I will do this general part in any case. I trust that your personal deities will know who you are and will, hopefully, respond favourably to this general request. 🙂 If you do mention a specific deity or other divine being in your comment, I will add an extra request to this particular deity and ask them to bestow their blessings upon you, too.)
If there is anything in particular you’d like me to focus on, you can add that to your comment (in just a few words, please!). I will then include this intention specifically for you, but also keep you in the general blessing.**
And if you’d like to know more about the blessings first, you can read the behind-the-scenes-take or my thoughts about one year of blessings – but don’t forget to come back and sign up afterwards! 🙂
For those of you who’d also like to bless others and aren’t sure how to start, I’ve posted a practical guide: Blessing: How to Get Started in 9 Simple Steps.
One final note: I’ll do my best to approve comments in a timely manner, but I am not glued to my screen. It might occasionally take a day or two for your comment to be approved. Thanks for your patience!
* I’m not dogmatic about this deadline. The Tuesday cutoff is simply to make sure I see your request in time, and it will be included for sure. Any comments left after midnight on Tuesday (German time) might or might not be read before the blessing, and might or might not be included.
** I’m not a physician or other health professional. If you have any health issues you’d like me to include, I’m happy to add them – but please remember that a blessing by a random stranger on the internet does not replace a competent medical treatment. Just sayin’…
Markéta says
My dear Regine,
would you bless, please, me and Aimy?
Have a nice day – and my blessing in return, if you will,
yours,
Markéta
Regine says
Hey Markéta,
Of course, gladly! Hope you‘re both doing fine. 🙂
Yes, please, I‘d very much appreciate your blessing this week. Thanks for offering! I wish you a wonderful weekend,
Regine
Jennifer Kobernik says
Dear Regine, please bless us all again this week, if you will: Josiah, Joanna, Eleanor, and me.
(By the way, I am currently loving my “Perpetual Spinach” chard variety, which seems to be vastly more heat tolerant than others I’ve tried. Mine was from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, but I think other places sell it too.)
Regine says
Hi Jennifer,
It‘s great to have you back again! Noted, and will gladly do – and I hope you‘re all fine and doing well!
Thanks for the pointer, I hadn‘t seen this chard variety before. Green stems and a more spinachy taste sound very interesting! Right now, I‘m growing „Bright Lights“ (have had very good experiences with it in my climate, plus looks great with different colours, plus vigorous and long-living for continuous picking), and a variety I haven‘t had before named „Glatter Silber 3“ (green leaves, white stems). The latter looked promising (well, on the seed package 😉 ). But it seems I can also get the Perpetual Spinach variety over here – very good to know! One of the online shops listing it says its truly perpetual, as in multi-annual, while the others don‘t mention this. Is yours in your climate multi-annual?
Chard in itself is rather easy to grow for me. I made the mistake (or not) of planting it out because it clearly wasn‘t happy inside anymore, and I somehow underestimated the upcoming wind. We then promptly had two days of heavy wind, very cool air, but loads of strong sunshine nonetheless – which made all the chard plants play dead opossum… 😂 Poor things! They are picking up now, and if things continue to develop as they seem right now, we‘ll drown in chard over the summer (second mistake: sowed too much, although should have known better, and can‘t bring myself to throw perfectly fine seedlings out…). Overall, a learning experience – although I‘m not sure they‘d have fared better in the house for a few more days, so there‘s that! 🙂
All the best to you,
Regine
Jennifer Kobernik says
Our climate is kind of odd for most garden plants in that it’s subtropical and our chard usually succumbs to the heat before it gets to freeze die off, but I suspect that the Perpetual Spinach would probably just keep going if we didn’t pull it. However, this is is only our second year growing it, and we haven’t tried to grow it as a biennial/perennial. I don’t know if it would keep producing after flowering, but ours never showed any sign of bolting last year despite the heat. Worth experimenting! It’s very tasty, if not as eye-catching as the rainbow chard.
Regine says
That’s great to know, thanks!
Valerie says
Greetings and thanks from the Nickel, Regine! 🙏
Please put us back on your ever-popular blessings list. Everyone except Vanessa is doing fine. Her broken elbow is not healing as well as expected. That elbow just does not want to bend enough to please her doctor, in spite of physical therapy exercises done religiously. Another surgery may be in her future.
We hope you and yours are doing well!
May I continue to send you my blessings this week?
🙏
Valerie, Trevor, Shirleen, Vanessa, Vicki, and (Sunny)
Regine says
Hi again,
Ouch – that doesn’t sound as good as one would hope. ;-( If you happen to talk to Vanessa, please tell her I wish her all the best and a full and speedy recovery!
You’re all on the list, and Vanessa in particular. And yes, please, I’d very much appreciate your blessings this week. Thanks for asking,
Regine
Valerie says
Thanks Regine! I will certainly let Vanessa know. 😊
V.O.G says
Hello Regine!
Well things are warming up for the big summer ahead, it seems, and the always all-too-brief actual-springtime appears to be more in the rearview mirror at this point. I hope your brambles cooperate and your garden thrives!
I would greatly appreciate a blessing this week, please! As always, I offer mine in return.
Thank you!
— V.O.G
Regine says
Hi V.O.G.,
It is getting decidedly summerly, isn’t it? 🙂 But still very nice and pleasant – a joy to be outside in the garden (and elsewhere). The brambles… let’s say we’re still hashing it out. 😉
Noted, and yes, please – I’d very much appreciate yours this week. Thanks for offering!
Regine
Eija Kärkkäinen says
Dear Regine,
please bless me again this week for the still continuing nefrostomi/kidney stone situation.
Eija
Regine says
Hi Eija,
Will gladly do! 🙂 I hope things are developing in a positive way for you,
Regine