Blessed are the weird people

Blessed are the weird people

poets, misfits, writers, mystics heretics, painters, troubadours—
for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.

Blessed are those who embrace the intensity of life’s pain and pleasure for they shall be rewarded with uncommon ecstasy.

Blessed are you who see beauty in ugliness,
for you shall transform our vision of how the world might be.

Blessed are the bold and whimsical,
for their imagination shatters ancient boundaries of fear for us all.

Blessed are you who are mocked for unbridled expression
of love in all its forms,
because your kind of crazy is exactly that freedom
for which the world is unconsciously begging.

Blessed are those who have endured breaking by life,
for they are the resplendent cracks through which the light shines.
Salaam. Shalom. Peace. 

Jacob Nordby