And then suddenly 13-year-old Katie was taking video, and crying, as the leader of their faith strode up to her brother, kissed his head and uttered a blessing.
Eragon utters a blessing: "Atra gülai un ilian tauthr ono un atra ono waíse skölir frá rauthr" (translated in the back of the book: "Let luck and happiness follow you and may you be shielded from misfortune").
A final blessing was uttered on behalf of a species now at last united in our prayers to the sky: "Every human being who looks up to the moon in nights to come will know that there is some corner of another world that is forever mankind".
Some of us are outliers: Grad school offers ample opportunity for catastrophic and utter failure, yet some are blessed with unsurpassed success.
But after millions of repetitions over the years, the phrase has become part of the backdrop of American life, just like the words "In God We Trust" on our coins and "God bless America" uttered by presidents at the end of important speeches.
Harris says: "Too much of what [David Cameron] said sounded like a rehashed version of the kind of stuff the blessed Margaret uttered back in the 1980s, tangled up with the modern small-statism that runs from the shrill aspects of the press into the rightwing blogosphere".
After the names were read, the crowd solemnly uttered together: "May their memories be for a blessing," a Jewish honorific that is written or said after the name of a deceased individual.
Funny, Bric didn't utter those words two years ago when he readily gave his blessing to a $2 million bailout of the DeBell golf Course.
But mainly, there is nobody to share the complete and utter joy and gratitude I feel in my heart that I was blessed with these two amazing creatures who call me mommy.
Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
Voice 2: Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
