{"id":39624,"date":"2017-02-15T06:03:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T11:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=39624"},"modified":"2017-02-13T11:13:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T16:13:18","slug":"new-beatitudes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2017\/02\/new-beatitudes.html","title":{"rendered":"New Beatitudes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

First, here are some new beatitudes by Simon Woodman:<\/p>\n

Blessed are those who refuse the lie that one life is worth more than any other,\u00a0for theirs is the future of humanity.
\nBlessed are those who have stared long into the abyss, for theirs is honesty beyond grief.
\nBlessed are those who resist retaliation, for the earth will never be won by force.
\nBlessed are those who would rather die for truth than live with compromise, for the truth will outlive all lies.
\nBlessed are those who forgive the unforgivable, for they have seen the darkness of their own souls.
\nBlessed are those who know themselves truly, for they have seen themselves as God sees them.
\nBlessed are those who are provocatively nonviolent, for they are following the path of the son of God.
\nBlessed are those who choose to receive violence but not to give it, for the future is born out of such choices.
\nBlessed are you when you stand up for truth and hell itself decides to try and destroy you.
\nYou\u2019re not the first and you won\u2019t be the last.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you now, nothing makes any sense unless you learn see it differently,
\nand then choose to live that alternative into being.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Simon Woodman<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And now, here is a new setting of the older and more familiar beatitudes<\/a>, by Thomas Lloyd<\/a>:<\/p>\n