Given: The Forgotten Meaning and Practice of Blessing

How do we express the good that God wants for those we love? How do we experience blessing through pain and suffering? Why would we bless even enemies? How do we keep spoken blessings in sync with God’s will? And how do we integrate blessing, a concept woven throughout the entire Bible, into the fabric of our everyday lives?

In Given, you will journey outside of your comfort zone, into a world of blessing as a relational calling―as a way God relates to you and a way you’re called to relate to others. You will travel across countries, cultures, and centuries of church history to expand your paradigm of a word ripe with significance. Along the way, you’ll be inspired to begin the essential Christian practice of being given by God as a blessing.

Journey with author Tina Boesch to discover your calling to a meaningful way of living and relating to God and others, inspired by Christ, who gave himself on the cross so that we could fully experience God’s blessing.

Begin to Live
We all have a deep ache to be blessed by God and to be a blessing. How do we bless those we love? How do we bless our enemies? How do we speak blessing into―and out of―pain and suffering? How do we keep the blessings we speak in sync with God’s will?

Living overseas, where blessing flowed freely through everyday conversations, Tina Boesch realized she had never learned its language. As you journey with Tina across countries, cultures, and centuries of church history, you’ll expand your understanding of a word that is ripe with significance.

Includes a reading and reflection guide that will equip you with tangible ways to begin the practice of giving yourself to others as a blessing.

Tina Boesch is a writer, an editor, and a designer and serves as an advocate for Baptist Global Response. She earned an MA in theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she studied Christianity and culture. She has lived in seven countries on three continents. For fourteen years, Tina, her husband, and their three children called Istanbul, Turkey, home. They currently reside in Louisiana.