Blessed are you who are vulnerable or undocumented,
for you belong to God.
Blessed are you who are pepper-sprayed,
for your eyes see most clearly.
Blessed are you who respond to brutality with kindness,
for kindness alone will change the world.
Blessed are you who are neighborly amid terror,
for you are at home with God.
Blessed are you who protest injustice,
for this is God’s voice.
Blessed are you who shoot with cameras instead of guns,
for so does God.
Blessed are you who are harassed and arrested,
for you are most at peace, and most free.
Blessed are you who are shot or maimed,
for so they treated the martyrs before you.
Blessed are you who are despised and deported,
for so God’s beloved are always treated,
yet you never leave God’s loving home.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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