I once read that the primary audience for the Sermon on the Mount would have been the “disinherited.”
I have pondered that off and on, and I recognize that is the audience, the disinherited, that make up the apparent "less thans," the "have nots," the meek, the poor, pitiful put-upons among us.
They are the ones to whom we need be entirely open. Mainly because, blinding flash, each of them is each of us...is you, is me.
There is the very soul of us...those we meet and subconsciously avoid as if they were the "unclean" of yesteryear.
We need to let that truth come into our walking around consciousness, to know them as our peeps, to consciously shut out no one.
When reasoning mind gets hold of the joy stick, the others, our lessers, and the other "others," our betters, meet in the middle and call our name. Our powerlessness is our clarion call to our self's Self...for God's answer.
As Howard Thurman wrote: When all hope for release in this world seems unrealistic and groundless, the heart turns to a way of escape beyond the present order.
A way of escape beyond the present order...God answering our call.
Thank you.
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