We’re about to teach the Sermon on the Mount as we go through Matthew in our church. This weekend, the weekend after Easter, we hit the Beatitudes. I’m really impressed by how Dallas Willard discussses them in The Divine Conspiracy. This is one of those books that I think everybody in Christendom should read. The problem with it is that it takes forever to read – I’m working on it for about 4 years now.
His work includes this quote:
Blessed are the physically repulsive,
Blessed are those who smell bad
The twisted, misshapen, deformed,
The too big, the too little, too loud,
The bald, the fat, the old –For they are all riotously celebrated in the party of Jesus.
Then there are the more seriously crushed ones: The flunk-outs, the dropouts and burnouts. The broke and the broken. The drug addictede and the divorced. The HIV-positive and herpes-ridden. The brain damaged, the incurably ill. The unemployed. The unemployable. […]
I love it. I’m teaching the Beatitudes, then I leave for 10 days for Nicaragua, where I suspect I’ll learn a whole bunch more about this passage.
pat loughery 
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