beatitudes – 300 words a day

Dear friend

You want to follow God. You are feeling like you have nothing to offer, like you are at a party where everyone else brings cool gifts and you are still waiting for your last paycheck and so have nothing. You think about how you have done wrong and how often you have messed up, and […]

what counts as

Jesus says “”Blessed” nine times at the beginning of the teaching starting in chapter 5. We look at this list, which is called the beatitudes, and try to figure out what Jesus meant. Actually, I think, we try and figure out how we can be part of the list. For example, Jesus says that the […]