Modern Day Beatitudes
by Dave Andrews Blessed are the strange, the weird, the people we laugh at, those who do not fit our mold, especially the socially wretched and despised. By their presence in our lives, their mission is to expand our reality — on our part, reluctantly and on theirs, so painfully — by forcing us to look at them in the hope that we see God in them. Blessed are the depressed and the addicted for they are called upon to demonstrate the healing miracles of God through their own awakening and liberation. Blessed are the broken, those who fail, those…