What I'm Thinking About When I'm Not Thinking About Halloween

The Beatitudes
Lk. 6.20-23
3	¶ "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4	¶ Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Is. 61.2
5	¶ Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Ps. 37.11
6	¶ Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Is. 55.1,2
7	¶ Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
8	¶ Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Ps. 24.4, 5
9	¶ Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
10	¶ Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: 1 Pet. 3.14 for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11	¶ Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 1 Pet. 4.14
12	Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets 2 Chr. 36.16 · Acts 7.52  which were before you."

From the Book of Matthew, Chapter 5

From http://www.bartleby.com/108/40/5.html

From the movie, "Shawshank Redemption", based on a Steven King novella

"Requiem

The crucified planet Earth,

should it find a voice 

and a sense of irony,

might now well say

of our abuse of it,

"Forgive them, Father,

They know not what they do."

The irony would be 

that we know what 

we are doing.

When the last living thing 

has died on account of us,

how poetical it would be 

if Earth could say, 

in a voice floating up

perhaps

from the floor

of the Grand Canyon,

"It is done."

People did not like it here."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 

from the book "Man Without a Country" (Seven Stories, 2005)