This week, we continue on in our sermon series and consider that God has promised blessing to us, BUT what do we consider blessing? What does God think of as blessing? Do we imagine something more like the “prosperity gospel” promises of health, wealth and flourishing in the ways of this world? Or can we imagine blessing that looks more like Jesus’ Beatitudes? How can our walk with God help us to see more clearly how blessing is a part of every bit of the human experience precisely because God has experienced humanity as well? Can we entrust ourselves and our lives to a God who can bring blessing out of even the hardest things?