Christ’s announcement of a blessing upon the poor and the hungry and the suffering and the persecuted (Luke 6:20–23). And we retain the practice of blessing one another and our homes and our food and much else. But blessing God seems, well, like chutzpah, presuming that God needs our blessing. It seems to make God the recipient of blessing rather than the source of all blessing. It seems to render God passive. But this mysterious “passivity” of God is precisely the nuance we should not neglect. By