Beatitudes of Hope

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

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BEATITUDES FOR ALL WOMEN 

Hope for women who resist patriarchal oppression. To them belong the Kingdom and Queendom of Heaven.

Hope for women who are bereft and lost in death and longing. Their memories will recover and find them, and their strength will take new forms of life. 

Hope for introverted, reticent, disregarded, uncelebrated women. Don’t worry, Mother Earth knows you and sees you and listens to you. She is fully aligned with you. 

Hope for women whose spirits feel empty and hollowed out, whose bodies feel withered and drained of life. The One Who is the Source of Life is also the source of your dignity, your worthiness and your enough-ness.

Hope for women who are the caregivers of those whom no one else will care for. The long, heartfelt breath you breathe into others naturally resuscitates you. 

Hope for women who radiate authentic, abundant love. They will see the One Who Is She, He, and They. 

Hope for women who are bridge-builders, reconcilers, table-extenders, light-bearers, and peacemakers. They are the brush strokes of The Creator. 

Hope and justice for all women who have been attacked and brutalized for no reason. Jesus, who was wrongly condemned and crucified, validates your story, and the Cloud of Witnesses is the jury of your peers, and the Whole of Heaven will be your reparations. 

Hope for all women who are slut-shamed, fat-shamed, misgendered, abused, assaulted shunned, ignored, mansplained, belittled by others “in the name of Jesus” whenever you try to be who God created you to be. They did the same to Mary Magdalene, Bathsheba, Leah, Esther, Tamar, Dinah, and many, many others too. Keep doing you. The wholeness you exude expands the universe. 

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DOXOLOGY

Praise She Who Is the Fount of Hope. 
Praise She Who Is the Image of God in All Women Who Walk the Earth. 
Praise She Who Births the Sun, the Moon and the Atmosphere.  

Praise the One Who Is the Knitter of Wombs, the Mother of Creation, and the Son of Mary.

Amen

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Let us hope together. Please feel free to add any beatitudes of hope or additional doxology in the comments below.  

Blessings,
Marcie