Aug 4: Blessed are those who mourn, they shall be comforted. We open and close doors all our lives—spiritual doors to let people, ideas, events, experiences into our lives with a welcome hand. We expect them to come in, enrich us with a sharing and dialogue. And then they go out, and the door closes behind him, and they are gone. We mourn. We grieve. Their existence, however, is still with us, influencing us and continuing to make us less selfish, less self-centered, and less inclined to think “I am alone.” Comfort comes from time and God—the awareness that our life is full of such opening and closing doors, of people who come, visit, influence and go out again. But we are different. Some we mourn much. Such should give us the comfort, the sense of completion that marks a mature life. Aug 3: Blessed are people grieving…comforted. The greatest comfort is the moment we realize that whatever or whoever has gone from our lives WAS in our lives. We are better for their time with us, or we would not be mourning their loss. greatest comfort. Aug 2: Blessed are mourners. We mourn for people who die, but, daily, we mourn other losses--a failing grade, a rejected love, a failure to achieve, a trust betrayed—or a marriage that falls apart. How does comfort come to the “poor in spirit”? If we choose to accept the loss—to welcome it—by authentic mourning—then we can find a way towards a new attitude, a stronger hope, appreciating and valuing God’s sunshine and rain on the just and unjust. We are not in control—and isn’t that good! Aug 1: “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” It is hard being poor—depressing —and yet it can be peaceful. It hurts to choose poverty of spirit, but the choice wins a natural calm, a sense of serenity, an influx of community-awareness. You discover that your pain & problems are the pain & problems of others—and, shared, they are comforted.
Posted on: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 11:28:13 +0000
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