A couple of weeks ago we began exploring what might be the most ignored beatitude of our cultural moment.

Blessed are the meek.

We spent that first week with those Jesus was actually looking at when he said those words — the peasants, the day laborers, the ones with their backs against the wall. And we heard Jesus announce to them — not someday, not eventually — you are blessed. Right now. As you are.

This week we turn to the second half of the question.

How do we — on the margins or not — actually live into that blessing? How do we access the power that meekness carries?

It turns out the answer has something to do with Niagara Falls.