Blessed Are the Rest of US, coming in April 2024.

Embracing our limits. Discovering our wholeness.

 

What makes us worthy? What makes life good?

When Micha Boyett's son was born with Down Syndrome and later diagnosed with autism, she was drawn into the ancient teachings of the Beatitudes. In a culture that values performance, perfection, and strength, Micha found in this small passage of ancient text a new language to honor the worth of her son and to push against the intrinsic ableism in our culture’s response to disability: blessed—whole—are the weak ones, the grieving ones, the ones who long for peace, the misunderstood. In other words, blessed are the rest of us, who will never live up to the world’s exacting standards. 

In Blessed Are the Rest of Us, Boyett explores the core of the human experience in life’s most challenging and complicated moments, and shares her journey of discovering the paradoxical nature of blessing through the unfolding of her son’s childhood. Boyett reimagines God’s dream for wholeness in the ways we—regardless of ability—can embrace our own limits and longing.

Each chapter centers on the refreshing good news of one beatitude, poetically interwoven with stories of Boyett's life.

 

Micha Boyett is an award winning podcaster, as well as a writer and speaker. In addition to Blessed Are The Rest of Us, she is the author of Found: A Story of Questions, Grace, and Everyday Prayer and a contributor to the New York Times bestseller A Rhythm of Prayer, edited by Sarah Bessey. She cohosts The Lucky Few podcast, and is the creator and host of The Slow Way podcast and letter.

Micha lives with her husband and three children in Northern New Jersey, works part-time as a youth pastor at Good Shepherd Church in New York City, and refuses to put anything but M&Ms in her froyo.