Blessed are the outcasts;
the ostracized, the outsiders.
Blessed are the scared;
the scarred, the silent.
Blessed are the broken;
for they are not broken.
Blessed are the hated;
for they are not worthy of hate.
Blessed are those who try;
those who transform, who transition.
Blessed are the closeted;
God sees you shine anyway.
Blessed are the queers;
who love creation enough to live the truth of it,
despite a world that tells them they cannot.
And blessed are those
who believe themselves unworthy of blessing;
what inconceivable wonders you hold.
“Beatitudes for a Queerer Church” from Backwater Sermons is copyright © Jay Hulme 2021 published by Canterbury Press and is reproduced by permission. All rights reserved. rights@hymnsam.co.uk
