The Afterword

Tag: blessed

  • #Blessed – Matthew 5:7-12

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    Do you want to live a blessed life—not the sunset-caption kind,not the #blessed kind,but the steady goodnessof God’s kindnessfinding you in the ordinary? I didn’t have language for it.I knew God—Scripture, church, study—but enjoying God felt like a foreign country.And then Jesus sits on a hillsideand says Blessed—not as a reward you earn,but as a…

  • A Life I Inhabit – Matthew 5:1-6

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    Peter
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    I remember the mountain,not because I was there,but because its shapestill presses into the imagination: the climb,the gathered crowd,the teacher sitting down—not to perform,but to name realityand call a people into it. Not a checklist.Not a Sunday add-on. A kingdom announcement. After the gardenwe learned too much—love and hate,good and evil,kindness and crueltyall housed in…