Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
If we welcome the Beatitudes, their logic will change the heart. They are called blessed are the poor, not poverty. They are blessed people, not situations. God is with the poor against poverty and misery. Blessed are those who weep, God is on the side of those who weep, but not from the pain. But not because happiness is in tears, but why is a new thing: If God weeps he walks beside that, wipes her tears, the band's heart, opens its future.
A mysterious angel announcing it to anyone crying: "The Lord is with thee." The storm is on your side, under your power. Like the disciples, caught at night by the storm on the lake: he is there, the power of the rowers who do not surrender, in the strong arms of the helmsman, in the eyes of the lookout who searches the shore and look for the dawn.
Blessed are the merciful: for those who in future will discover what they have already, mercy, that is something that everyone carries with it forever, luggage for the trip and eternal land, equipment and seal of eternity place along the length of time.
Giuseppe Lipari
Courtesy of LA Saint Paul Sunday Magazine
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