The Beatitudes Reframed - A Reflection

The Maryknoll Affiliate event - Tending Our Souls with Brian McLaren was very well received. Many who attended asked for the complete list of “Beatitudes” that he included at the end of his book, Faith After Doubt.

Here they are:

Reflection: 5 – Beatitudes reworded 218 - 219

1.     Blessed are the curious, for their curiosity honors reality.

2.     Blessed are the uncertain and those with second thoughts, for their minds are still open.

3.     Blessed are the wonderers, for they shall find what is wonderful.

4.     Blessed are those who question their answers, for their horizons will expand forever.

5.     Blessed are those who often feel foolish, for they are wiser than those who think those who think themselves wise.

6.     Blessed are those who are scolded, suspected and labeled as heretics by the gatekeepers, for the prophets and mystics were treated in the same way by thee gatekeepers of their day

7.     Blessed are those who know their unknowing, for they shall have the last laugh.

8.     Blessed are the perplexed, for they have reached the frontiers of contemplation.

9.     Blessed are they who become cynical about their cynicism and suspicious of their suspicion, for they will enter the second innocence.

10.  Blessed are the doubters, for they shall see through false gods

11.  Blessed are the lovers, for they shall see God everywhere