Blessed To Bless

Blessed To Bless

Blessed to Bless:
A Manual for Christian Spiritual Renewal

Abstract
Before reading this book I never believed that I was blessed to bless. It was not until about half way through reading this manual that my Christian spirit was beginning to feel renewed. I want to be the good soil in Jesus’ parable and I want to open myself up to God to allow him to use me as a blessing to others. After reading Blessed to Bless in its entirety I now know that I am worthy of God’s blessings and love. It is up to me to start building such a relationship with God to overcome my loneliness and hurt.

Blessed to Bless:
A Manual for Christian Spiritual Renewal
I am blessed to bless? That was the first question that I asked myself when I began reading this book. At first I almost laughed about it. I thought there was no way that I am someone special enough to be blessed by God, and even more to be able to bless others. What I did not realize is that I was the one holding myself back from this blessing.
I am 22-years-old and I too have issues of accepting love. It took 8 years of dating my husband and then marriage before I was finally convinced that I was worthy of his love. Still I am not sure why I have such issues, maybe because when I think back on the last 10 years or so of my life I remember a lot more pain and suffering than true happy moments. Maybe it could be that I tried so hard to be “perfect” for everyone else, that I forgot what was more important. No matter what the reason, after reading this book I realized that I need to make a change in my life.
When I was half way through the book I was still not sure of what kind of impact reading this spiritual manual was going to have on me. Then I reached pages 65 and 66. These pages stuck out to me like a small light shining through the darkness. I had read about the parable of the good seed before but for some reason the way it was worded or the feelings I got while reading it were like a new energy had...