Rev Jonalu Johnstone offers a summary of Beatitudes for Today, drawn from her reflections on Sunday, June 17:

• Blessed are black lives because they matter.
• Blessed are indigenous people because their connection to the earth leads us to redemption from our environmental sins.
• Blessed are queer people because they celebrate their pride and build their own families.
• Blessed are survivors of sexual assault and harassment because they are believed.
• Blessed are refugees because their families will be restored.
• Blessed are immigrants because they recognize and value home.
• Blessed are survivors of mass shootings and street violence because they know the value of life.
• Blessed are the indebted because they will be made whole.
• Blessed are the imprisoned because they understand liberation.
• Blessed are the restaurant workers and cashiers and farmworkers and hotel maids and childcare workers because without them, the world as we know it would stop.
• Blessed are they who are persecuted, monitored, arrested and abused for the sake of justice because they will be honored like the prophets who came before them.