Blessed Are Those Who Have Suffered
Sit with these lines and see how the Spirit might stir in you. Is there a line for you? Does it make you think of someone else, and perhaps inspire you to encourage them?
Blessed Are You Who Have Suffered
KJ Ramsey
Blessed are you who have suffered
for within your soul are storehouses
of the stories you have survived.
When darkness shadows the harvest
of your hardest years,
you can still dip deep
into the grain of your grief
and plumb the well of your tears.
Taste the truth of your persistence.
Swallow the strength that brought you here.
Digest the discouragement of today.
And then hope will appear.
You are more than the stories
that have shaped you.
But because of them, you grew.
Inside your soul is a silo.
You've always held
more strength
than you knew.