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.