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The Gift of the Blessing

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A books that can change your life. I always wanted to be able to fully express my love for my children and family and to forgive the past. Now I have found the means to do so. Read it, it can change your life too!

"The Gift of the Blessing" was truly an excellent, must have book for all families. I read it before my family, including grandchildren came for a week before Christmas and we were motivated to give each other daily blessings,by touch, kind words, written notes, etc.The book tells how to give blessings to your spouse, friends, children and parents. Family relationships can be improved greatly if following the advise in this book. It is a life changing book and a real blessing if you can come up with even more creative ideas after reading it.

"The Blessing" takes sound biblical doctrine and applies common sense to how we should treat our family (I.e. Spouse, parents, and children). Text is an easy read; contains real-life examples.

I'm only on Chapter 9 and I can truly say this book is a blessing. It's scripturally based which equals total relevance to your life. It really "explains" the blessing. I love the book and it helped shed even more light on how blessed I am by family and how blessed I was by my grandparents who both passed this year.

I learned a lot about myself and my spouse with this succinct read. It was truly sage. I recommend it those looking to improve their relationships with family and friends.

If you love Gary Smalley and John Trent, you'll like this book! But if you are looking for something new and refreshing about an unusual theme, you might well be disappointed. Smalley and Trent have taken what could have been an extremely dynamic topic and melded it around their common themes of family and relationships. The end product - full of their usual case studies - has little in common with the scripture references foundational to the book: the Blessings as seen in the Old Testament, with special emphasis on the patriarchal blessings found in Genesis. Specifically, they have taken what was meant to be a unique event in one's life and turned it into everyday occurrances through touch; spoken, meaningful words; and parents' commitment to see blessings through in their children's lives. Of course, these are important elements of relational life, but the Old Testament Blessing is so much more. Unfortunately, this time around, Smalley and Trent missed the mark.

Amazon invited me via email to share a review of this product purchased 4/16/2010. However, I never received the product. It's been over a month now. Can someone point me in the right direction for find out what happened? Thanks.

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