What Does it Mean to be Blessed?

The word blessed has been among the vocabulary I’ve removed from my daily life. In the faith of my young adulthood, it was a word that filled my conversations: a term to close out emails or to describe a pay raise. I had heard it claimed by the wealthy, the healthy, or those who generally had good things coming their way. 

It was a spiritually rosy-coated notion that the harder you prayed, the more likely God would fix the universe in your…