The Beatitudes: Seeing the crowds, he...opened his mouth and taught them, saying: 'Blessed are the poor in spirit, meek...those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, merciful...pure in heart, peacemakers....Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets who were before you. -- Matthew 5:1-12
Again I begin my study of the Sermon and again realize that to me the Beatitudes are the most important part of the entire Sermon.
It is ever these words that remind us that mirror vision is God's vision. The reasoning mind is essential for the dailies of life, but it is God-vision that depersonalizes those dailies...that give us a reverse view of life, from self to Self.
Blessed are all my reasoning mind resistibles for they are the point of return, the U-bie, that begins my return to God. What we see, we resist not but look beneath our perception for a deeper understanding higher. This without effort...by grace.
Blessed are all the "uns" for they are the way we shall be lifted up. This is where we first get a hint that life with all its hurts is when we're doing it right...it is the hurts, the wrongs, the mistakes that turn us to God...after our ego has tried and failed, tried and failed, tried and failed. Only then do we crash and burn and rise from the ashes into a transformed consciousness.
We resist not evil, we love.Thank you.
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