Imagine if you were to find 100 reasons to recite a blessing every day of your life. How might it transform your outlook and your world?
There is a Jewish tradition that requires we recite at least 100 blessings a day. For an Orthodox Jew who prays three times a day, this is fairly easy to accomplish . But the practice has life-changing benefits for all of us, no matter what our religious or spiritual practice – even if we are “secular.” It’s about cultivating full awareness, a sense of loving and being loved, of gratitude and awe.
Blessings are everywhere, although we tend to overlook those opportunities. We are busy with our lives, or we are overwhelmed with the difficulty of our days. Life can seem random, full of disappointment and loss, even ugly and brutal. How do we know love in the midst of that?