St. John Betjeman, England's Poet Laureate from 1972 - 1984.
@richvillodas 1/ "This Beatitude is a quote from Ps. 37:11: “The humble shall have the land for their own.” Some translate it “the nonviolent.” The translation perhaps most familiar is “the meek", the unique power of the powerless, which people who've always had power never understand." - Rohr
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Copy of tweet here: "...a capacity for mutuality (see Matthew 7:7-11), which implies a basic humility...your life is not about you, but you are about Life. “I live now not I, but Another Life lives in me,” to paraphrase Paul’s poetic words (Galatians 2:20)." Can we begin to see ourselves as only part of the universe, just a fragment of it, not its center? Can we give ourselves to accepting the heat and the rain, the pain and the limitations, the inconveniences and discomforts of life, without setting out to passively punish the rest of the human race for the daily exigencies that come with being human? Can we smile at what we have not smiled at for years? Can we give ourselves away to those who need us? Can we speak our truth without needing to be right and accept the vagaries of life now—without needing the entire rest of the world to swaddle us beyond any human justification for... Joan Chittister