How radically different our world would be if more people used the power they have to bless others rather than engage in the vitriol that has come to define so much of our social discourse….May you cultivate the healing, transformative practice of offering blessing.          Rev. Diane Berke, Founder & Spiritual Director, One Spirit Learning Alliance If up to now you have never heard of Rachel Naomi Remen, you have thus far missed knowing one of today’s saints.  Her manner is velvet soft, and her thoughts and story-telling bring healing as you listen. I heard her in person at a conference many years ago, have never forgotten her, and her thinking has helped to gentle my own being:  This thought in particular- “When people are blessed they discover that their lives matter, that there is something in them worthy of blessing.” Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. is today the Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine at UCSF School of Medicine.  She is also the Founder and Director of the Institute for the Study of Health and Illness at Commonweal, where she has worked for years with cancer patients, and was featured in Bill Moyer’s 1993 PBS series, Healing and the Mind. As an early pioneer of Wholistic and Integrative Medicine, she is one of the best known in the…….