Beloved Communion

Enter the gates
Of this beloved communion
Where you find
The marvelous saints

Displaced and hungry
Short life and cold nights
In prison and dark allies
I found them

Blessed are they
The Poor in Spirit

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Of this beloved communion
Where you meet saints
Weeping in union

Lost Life, broken bodies
Awake to the world’s pain
Ruptures in fellowship
Bring them such pain

Blessed are they
Who Mourn

Enter the gates
Of this beloved communion
Where you find
The art of surrender

Humble they released
Pursuit of man’s praise
Grips on riches and pleasure
Instead, they found me, their treasure

Blessed are they
The Meek

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Of this beloved communion
Filled with contagious zeal
Where you'll meet my delight

Parched and famished
Longing for restored humanity
Satisfied and quenched
Through feasting on me, their bread

Blessed are they
Who Crave Righteousness

Enter the gates
Of this beloved communion
Where weak and wounded,
Enjoying and strengthening one other

Wounds and limps exposed
Radiating mercy
They generously give
All that they are, in worship

Blessed are they
The Merciful

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Of this beloved communion
Discover the ones who see
The invisible

They look into the eyes
Of the unwanted and lonely
Seeing Me, they call them “Holy”
Welcoming the abandoned as family

Blessed are they
The Pure in Heart

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Of this beloved communion
Meet my children
Radiating the beauty of joy

Through hostility and assault
They found each other
Subverting abusive power through love
They remain like little ones

Blessed are they
My Peacemakers

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Of this beloved communion
Find the martyrs, the abandoned, rejected
Loyal to me, they wont won’t conform to false kingdoms

Resisting the darkness
They open windows so others can see
Into my kingdom of light
Their only desired reward, this beloved communion

Blessed are they
The Persecuted

Enter the gates
Of this beloved communion
Find my children
Pouring my love
Into one another

Blessed are you
My Saints