Lent Day 11
The First Beatitude is "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven".
To be poor in spirit means that you do not consider yourself any better than anyone else.
Sure, there are certain things you may be able to do much better than most others, but at the same time there might be some other things that those people can do better than you.
Therefore there is little to be gained by bragging, so practice some humility. Put the interests of others ahead of your own interests. Let others go first, give them the right of way.
When wronged, you have a choice to either be negative and complain or be positive by turning the other cheek and offer up your sufferings to atone for sins as suggested in the prayer called the Morning Offering.
About Me
- Joe
- Life is not about just me, it is about what I can do to somehow make the world a better place. I have to ask myself daily, what did I do today, make someone smile or frown? If I did the former, I am doing my job. If the latter, I have to revisit why I am here. Maybe the frown was the result of something I said for their own good, but they did not accept it. I cannot help that, because you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make the horse drink. That does not imply that I know everything, but I can only speak from my own experiences. Experience sometimes means I have found lots of ways to make mistakes, but mistakes can be the best teachers. Life is choices, I can choose to let everyone learn from their own mistakes, or share my experiences, and by doing so, hopefully help someone avoid the same mistakes. See my other blogs which have links at the bottom of my Profile.
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