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As in, count your blessings . As in, blessed are you among women . I once heard Martin Smith, SSJE, say that the word blessing, like many words in the English language, came to us from the good monks of St. Gregory. Now, St. Gregory is reported to have loved the Jacob cycle stories in Genesis, and of them, his favorite was the story of Jacob's wrestling with the angel. Jacob, he said, was blooded by the encounter with the angel, and left that encounter changed and transformed, never again to be the same.