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Blessing is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in northwestern Matagorda County, about twenty miles west of Bay City, near the junction of State Highway 35 and Farm Road 616.

Blessing was established on land owned by cattleman Jonathan Edwards Pierce, who gave the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway a right-of-way through his land in 1903.

When the railroad arrived, Pierce wanted to name the town "Thank God" out of gratitude, but postal officials deemed the name unsuitable, and "Blessing" was accepted as the compromise.

A post office opened in Blessing in 1903 with James H. Logan as the first postmaster, and residents platted the townsite on September 1, 1907, setting aside sites for a school and churches.

By 1914 Blessing had about 500 inhabitants, two churches, a bank, a hotel, telephone service, and a weekly newspaper, the Blessing News.

The Hotel Blessing, which opened in 1907, still serves guests today, making it a rare surviving railroad-era hotel on the Texas Gulf Coast.

By 1949, Blessing's local school district had been consolidated into the Tidehaven Independent School District.

The 2020 census counted 856 people in the Blessing CDP.

In the 2000 census, Blessing's 861 residents lived in 300 households spread across about 2.0 square miles.