"I’d like to extend to you a blessing as you enter this year. I want to bless you in the name of Jesus Christ. That you may know today that you are God’s beloved. And that you are loved with a love that will never ever let you go. That God knows you by name. That God holds out a crucified hand to you and says: ‘Will you take it?’

I pray that God will bless your spirit with a new responsiveness to life and to God and to Jesus and to the movement of the Spirit. I pray that God will bless your mind with new clarity, new clearness, and new abilities to think and to put things together, to connect ideas.

And that Jesus will release you from forces of darkness, despair. That God will bless your emotions and cause them to come alive again - the good emotions of joy, and peace, and deep love, and hope, and faith. I pray for that.

I pray for God’s blessing upon your bodies, that there will be new vigor, and vitality, and energy. That God will bless you with that. And that God will bless your relationships and where there is pain there will come new insight and faithfulness. That there will new intimacy, and closeness, and friendship, and community. I ask God to bless you with that.

That God will bless your work that you do in the world. That it will make this world a better place, it will put things together again, it will serve people. I bless your work in Jesus’ name.

I ask God to bless you with a new aliveness to creation – to the sky, and to the grass, and to the mountains, and to the rivers, and to all the insects, and the birds and the animals, and the dogs, and especially cats. I ask God to bless you today.

To bless you. And I speak that blessing to you in the name of Jesus Christ. May the joy of this God, the joy of the risen Christ be with you.
Amen"

(UIT: 'Op soek na Community' op 17 January 2010 deur Trevor Hudson)