“It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment.” Naomi Williams  How often do you criticize and complain? My answer: more than I’d like to admit. When you do, please understand you have lost your focus – on […]

Jesus starts his Beatitudes with a startling statement:   “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven,”  Allow me to rephrase so you may receive the full thrust of Jesus’ statement:  “You enter the Kingdom now, […]

Jesus starts his Beatitudes with a startling statement: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven,” Allow me to rephrase so you may gain the full thrust of Jesus’ statement: “You enter the Kingdom now, […]

As we jump into the Beatitudes let us remember we are looking for life, not laws. These Beatitudes are descriptions, not prescriptions. Descriptions of what life in the Kingdom looks like, not prescriptions for how to try to act to be blessed.  Jesus starts his descriptions with a startling […]