A Book of Everyday Blessings

“Imagery is able to unearth life within us in ways that thoughts are powerless to accomplish. Christine Valters Paintner is a noted spiritual midwife in birthing epiphanies in creative ways for the different emotional seasons and life passages we all must navigate. Her book teaches us to find in our daily encounters and recalled memories simple, reflective, and fresh circles of grace. This is not a book to be read through once and shelved. It is a resource for a lifetime that can help us relish again and again the everyday blessings that present themselves in the quiet, joyful, and challenging periods all of us must travel through. A Book of Everyday Blessings creatively opens inner paths we need to find and follow in our spiritual and psychological journey through change. No matter what your background and current situation, I hope you will take a few moments each day to pray with this book. It is, indeed, an everyday blessing."

“There are moments in life—joyful, harrowing, mysterious, and heart-wrenching—when we reach for God, but our words fall short. There are quiet moments, too, when we are tempted to believe our lives too mundane to be infused with God’s loving presence. Then, too, our prayer falls silent. But in her new book, Christine Valters Paintner adamantly disagrees, insisting that all moments are worthy of blessing. She reminds us that our God desires that we companion one another through the simple act of blessing, pointing to the good and beautiful even in the humdrum and the challenging. A Book of Everyday Blessings gives us new words with which to make holy the ordinary and extraordinary and doggedly insists that God is here, even now, in this suddenly sacred moment. This book will not only provide literal blessings for your everyday journey but also encourage you as you enter times of transition, as you embark on retreat, as you walk with friends and
strangers alike, and as you seek out the holy in the world around you. In A Book of Everyday Blessings, Paintner has given us a true gift: prose to help us name the goodness around us when our own words fall short.”

“With her characteristic warmth and tenderness, Christine Valters Paintner ushers us into the deep sacredness that permeates our everyday lives, just waiting for us to take notice. These powerful and poetic blessings offer holy accompaniment through every season of life, reminding us of the presence of God in moments both memorable and mundane. This book will be a faithful companion to every spiritual seeker, a luminous guide through the pilgrimages of our lives.”