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Thanks to everybody who signed up this week – may these blessings bring you good things!
Once a week, on Wednesday, I bless everybody 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 here – 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’…
Ochre Harebrained Curmudgeon says
Hi, Regine,
I’m late this week, but hope I’m still in time to request another blessing. Thank you for doing this.
*OHC*
Regine says
Hi OHC,
Unfortunately, I’ve already done this week’s blessing. ;-( But the post you commented on is actually the post for next week, i.e. if I don’t hear otherwise from you, I’d simply take this as a signup for next week’s blessing. (I generally put up the next post immediately when taking the earlier one down, i.e. you can come here at any time during the week and sign up for the next blessing, whether that’s one day out or six days.
Hope all is going well for you,
Regine
Ochre Harebrained Curmudgeon says
That’s fine, Regine. In fact, next Wednesday the 9th is a very significant day for me and a blessing on that day is very appropriate. My best to you. Thanks.
*OHC*
Regine says
Great! Consider it done, and all the best for you, especially on that significant day! 🙂
Regine
Falling Tree Woman says
Hello Regine
I asked for a blessing Weds 25th. I had quite a challenging day and yet I felt some holding that got me through.
My partner and I are selling our house to free up money to help our son buy a home – which is currently where his grandparents live. It’s all got bogged down in the nuts and bolts of the deal and is all messy and interwoven because their house swap (effectively) is now reliant on our sale as my sons mortgage went south – on the day you did the blessing. My partner’s parents are elderly and going into a retirement apartment. It will serve us all to get it sorted. I’d like to ask for a blessing again next time as I really felt the benefit.
Many thanks
Sara/Falling Tree Woman
Regine says
Hi Sara,
What a tangle! 🙂
Many thanks for reporting back. I’m glad to hear you felt a benefit from the blessing, and I’ll gladly include you again next Wednesday. I’m assuming from your comment that you’d like to place an intention like “getting the housing situation/sales sorted to everybody’s benefit” in addition to the general blessing – am I right?
Regine
Sara/ Falling Tree Woman says
Oh yes that would be wonderful – I wasn’t sure what the parameters were.
Thank you so much 🙏
Regine says
That’s probably because I haven’t spelled them out in clarity yet. 😉
My general parameters are still a bit vague. I have some hard red lines, but so far nobody has run into them. And the finer lines on what is acceptable or not, including the grey areas, will work themselves out over time.
In general, I’m perfectly fine with people requesting a blessing for things they care about (that includes pets, gardens, objects, etc, but also “causes”, e.g. exames, speaking engagements, events, trips, jobs, …), as long as whatever I’m supposed to bless is reasonably within their care, and the blessings don’t infringe on other people’s free will or have consent issues. If it’s important enough for you to ask for it to be blessed, it’s important enough to be blessed.
“Reasonably within your care” includes e.g. your own garden, or a public park in your quarter which you frequent a lot, but not a public park in another part of the city which you just heard about in the news. Your own trip would be “reasonably within your care”, somebody else’s trip requires their consent. An event you help organize to a substantial matter (i.e. you not just show up for half an hour of a multi-day event to help lay out some flyers) is reasonably within your care in my book, even though other people are involved, too. (These are just examples, but you’ll get the idea.)
“Consent” means that pepole who have the mind to consent do so (in particular, clear-thinking adults). They don’t have to write their own comment to request a blessing, but you need to ask them and they need to say yes to your request. (Again, there are grey areas, e.g. people who have given you carte blanche to pray for them. Instead of nitpicking words, again I trust that people get what I’m aiming at and will handle their requests accordingly.)
Finally, “reasonably within your care” combined with “consent” means e.g. if you have taken over the everyday care for a demented parent, you’re free to request blessings for them even if you never were made legal caretaker (a lot of people are in this situation, and are, for all practical purposes, the caretakers of their parents). Again, I trust people to handle this with a sense of ethics – if your parent, while they were still clear in their mind, was dead set against anything spiritual or religious, a blessing will not be appropriate.
I hope this has cleated some things up! 🙂
Regine
Matt says
Hey Regine,
Thanks as always! Could my family and I be included for a blessing this week especially for my son who hurt his knee?
Be well,
Matt
Regine says
Hi Matt,
Of course! 🙂
Hope your son’s knee will heal fine,
Regine
Jeff says
Hi Regine,
A general blessing for this week, letting wiser ones than I guide and decide what is best.
Thanks so much for all you’ve done.
May you be blessed in return.
Jeff
Regine says
Hi Jeff,
A wise plan! 😉 Will do, and thanks a lot for your good wishes!
Regine
Valerie says
Greetings from the Nickel, Regine! Thank you for your blessing last week. We believe these help!
Vanessa’s breast cancer scare looks much tamer than it might’ve been: A lumpectomy later this week should take care of the problem.
Shirleen, sadly, had a stroke and lost so much of her vision that she can no longer read, which is quite a blow for her. Speech and processing are much more difficult for her, I am told by my sisters.
Please put us back on your blessing list for this week. And as always, may you be blessed as well!
Valerie, Trevor, Shirleen, Vanessa, and Vicki
Regine says
Hi Valerie,
I’m glad to hear about Vanessa! That’s very good news. Please tell her I wish her all the best for the lumpectomy, and a speedy recovery.
Not so good about Shirleen, though – that sucks. I’ll glaldy send all of you the general blessing, but if Shirleen would like to get a special mention e.g. of her vision/reading ability, now or at any later point, please just let me know, ok?
Regine
Valerie says
Thanks so much, Regine. I will definitely send Vanessa your kind words. 😊
Shirleen, I am certain, would indeed appreciate a special blessing on her ability to process information.
Perhaps related to this is that I am told her panic attacks, once rare, are now much worse.
If her mental suffering could be eased, that would be wonderful!
Thanks so much! 🙏
Valerie
Regine says
Thanks, and so noted! 🙂
Regine
Valerie says
Hey Regine, my sister Vanessa just now texted me:
“Bless Regine! 🙏”
Regine says
Thanks!! :-))
Justin Moore says
Hi Regine. Thanks again for offering these blessings to all & sundry.
If you don’t mind I will take another blessing on the premise of being at ease with my public speaking engagements. You mentioned on JMGs blog in a comment to someone how it is important to mix practical effort with magical effort. I’ve been practicing my talk of course, and have checked out some books to learn some more tips for public speaking for any future talks I will give down the road following this week. Just thought I’d share that bit.
Thank you.
Regine says
Hey Justin,
Hope all went well last week, and good luck for this week’s talk! Thanks for sharing, I do appreciate that. 🙂
And I don’t mind at all – you’re really doing me favour by signing up.
Regine
Marko says
Hi Regine,
if you do not mind I would like another weekly blessing for me Viktoria and our little new home this week.
Thank you and best regards,
Marko
Regine says
Hey Marko,
I don’t mind at all! 🙂
Hope you’re settling in nicely, and all is going well on your end,
Regine
RandomActsOfKarma says
Hello! I would like a blessing. I worship the Greek pantheon.
Thank you!
Regine says
Hi Random,
Gladly. About the pantheon: Is there any deity in particular you’d like me to call upon? Calling upon a whole pantheon is a bit unwieldy… 😉
Regine