Broken but Blessed: Journeying from Pain to Peace with Unlikely Guides

Meet ordinary people who exemplify the upside-down values of Jesus’ Beatitudes.

“Why me?” is the cry I hear most often in my work as a hospice chaplain. I’m not a theologian, but through my encounters with people who are elderly, disabled, dying, and bereaved – and through my own quest for peace – Jesus’ teachings known as the Beatitudes have become essential. They describe the attributes of God’s people: God is with those who suffer, those beaten down by life and rejected by the world. Whe...