This is the most important dimension of blessing: sincerity that comes from the heart. This is the power that transforms and heals, elevates and restores. It is the very antipode of a stereotyped ritual. Spontaneous blessing is a flowing fountain that, like a mountain stream, cascades and sings. It expresses perpetual morning—defined as freshness, openness, gratitude, inspiration, newness, alertness, expectation of good, wakefulness, fresh beginning, purity, threshold, (re) birth, joy, innocence, wonder.

~ Pierre Pradervand, “The Gentle Art of Blessing”

Sunrise, Caswell Bay, Wales – photo by Leighton R, bigstockphoto.com