"A Way To Happiness"
"A Way To Happiness"
(Recorded at the Mount of the Beatitudes) Beatitude means happiness. The Beatitudes could also be called the ways to happiness. But they are not prescriptions for happiness in the next world, as much as a daring description of happiness in this world. So notice that the first and last Beatitudes are in the present tense. He says for those who are poor in spirit, the Kingdom of Heaven is now (Matthew 5:3). For those of you who are persecuted in the cause of justice, the Kingdom of Heaven is now (5:10). The people must have been sitting here on this very hillside with their mouths open. They say, well, that’s not what they teach us. They teach us to be cunning and to be strong and to be self-assured. He says, oh yes, I’m telling you to be self-assured, but self-assured from within because of your awareness of who-you-are-in-God. Jesus knew that happiness is an inside job, to borrow a phrase. And then he points up to these trees and these birds that you hear chirping above you and he says, be like them. They’re not worried, so “Stop all your worrying. Tomorrow will take care of itself” (Matthew 6:34). It sounds a lot like the advice for happiness from the recovery movement: “One day at a time.”
from On Pilgrimage With Father Richard Rohr
(Recorded at the Mount of the Beatitudes) Beatitude means happiness. The Beatitudes could also be called the ways to happiness. But they are not prescriptions for happiness in the next world, as much as a daring description of happiness in this world. So notice that the first and last Beatitudes are in the present tense. He says for those who are poor in spirit, the Kingdom of Heaven is now (Matthew 5:3). For those of you who are persecuted in the cause of justice, the Kingdom of Heaven is now (5:10). The people must have been sitting here on this very hillside with their mouths open. They say, well, that’s not what they teach us. They teach us to be cunning and to be strong and to be self-assured. He says, oh yes, I’m telling you to be self-assured, but self-assured from within because of your awareness of who-you-are-in-God. Jesus knew that happiness is an inside job, to borrow a phrase. And then he points up to these trees and these birds that you hear chirping above you and he says, be like them. They’re not worried, so “Stop all your worrying. Tomorrow will take care of itself” (Matthew 6:34). It sounds a lot like the advice for happiness from the recovery movement: “One day at a time.”
from On Pilgrimage With Father Richard Rohr
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