Ablaze with Divine Love

“Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you,
and when they shall separate you from their company,
and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil,
for the Son of man’s sake.”

Tubwaykhon ma dahasneyn l’khon bneynasha wa meperasheyn l’khon
wa mehasedeyn l’khon wa mephaqeyn shemkhon ayk bisha hlaph bar d’nasha.

You may not think so, but it can be blessedly ripe,
just the right thing to discover your true purpose,
when people see you in a bad light,
coloring your true colors with their own
inner hue and cry;
when people single you out for abuse,
because of the wounds they have felt inside;
when you are conspired against
and things get said behind your back;
when your good name gets tossed about,
shut out, and carried here and there
as if it were a waste of time to mention you.
All this happens because people see in you someone
who is trying to fulfill the divine image,
who lives according to their real purpose.
Yet in the distorted, fun-house mirror
of a heart they currently carry within,
they see you backwards,
which is the way they see themselves.

~ The Beatitudes in Luke, Neil Douglas-Klotz Translation ~

Mediocrity always attacks Spiritual Excellence…proceed anyways, love anyways, endure in all ways, always.  We let it be so. Amen!