Sunday, September 25, 2016
Empty and Lost
Sunday, October 2: Our focus today is on the first two Beatitudes Jesus teaches … for the poor in spirit and those who mourn.
╬ “ Empty and Lost ” The Beatitudes have this extraordinary character of paradox. We are blessed when we are “poor in spirit?” What does it mean to be poor “in spirit,” and how can that be understood as blessing? In the same way, how are we to receive and embrace the idea of blessing when we are grieving? And yet, Jesus says these things clearly and directly, inviting us to go deeper … to discover that only empty vessels may be filled; to engage a deeper of notion of the goodness of God: present in healing and redeeming power in the very places of our loss and emptiness. Blessed are we when famished in spirit and mourning loss. It is here that the inflowing of God begins. The Beatitudes.
