“Blessed are you When men revile you and Persecute you and Utter all kinds of evil against you Falsely on my account” (Matthew 5:11, RSV). When the tongue of the world Sharpens itself against you, Do not sharpen yours in return. Hear what Christ says: Blessed are you. Not the vindicated, Nor the admired, Nor the proven right, but you, Reviled, persecuted, Spoken of falsely “on my account.” Those words turn the wound into a window. The slander that finds you has already Passed