Beatitudes of Hope

Wednesday, March 9, 2022

BEATITUDES FOR STRANGERS IN A STRANGE LAND

from Rob Bell

Blessed are those who don’t have it all together.

Blessed are those who have run out of  strength, ideas, will power, resolve, or energy.

Blessed are those who ache because of how severely out of whack the world is.

Blessed are those stumble, trip, and fall in the same place again and again.

Blessed are those who on a regular basis have a dark day in which despair seems to be a step behind them wherever they go.

Blessed are you, for God is with you, God is on your side, God meets you in that place.

The gospel is the counter-intuitive, joyous, exuberant news that Jesus has brought the unending, limitless, stunning love of God to even us.

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DOXOLOGY

Praise God by Charles Lyttle

Praise God, praise God, the love we all may share.
Praise God, praise God, the beauty everywhere.
Praise God, the hope of good to be.
Praise God, the truth that makes us free.

Amen.