beatitudes for the weird series: january 2 - february 27

For the next two months - the liturgical season of epiphany - my Sunday evening prayer reflections will consider how the "weird people" bring blessings to themselves and all the rest of us. The way I see "Small is Holy" before Lent 2022 will utilize the gospel reading from the Common Lectionary and the Poem, "Beatitudes for the Weird." Tune in Sundays @ 4 pm for the live streaming. @
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Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writers, mystics, heretics, painters, and troubadours for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.
Blessed are those who embrace the intensity of life’s pains and pleasures for they shall experience uncommon ecstasy.
Blessed are those who see beauty in ugliness for they shall transform our vision of the world.
Blessed are the bold and whimsical for their imagination shatters ancient boundaries of fear.
Blessed are those who are mocked for unbridled expressions of love for your crazy kind of freedom is what the world is unconsciously begging for.
Blessed are those who have endured life’s brokenness for you are the resplendent cracks through which the light shines in.

January 2: Introduction

January 9: Wendell Berry and Robin Wall Kimmerer

January 16: Greta Thunberg and Malala Yousafzai

January 23: James Baldwin and Kaitlin Curtice

January 29: Lou Reed and Dorothy Day

February 6: Mary Lou Williams and Frank Zappa

February 13: Krista Tippett and Padraig O’Tuama

February 20: WEB Dubois and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

February 27: Sounds of Sacred Jazz