Category: Life Notes

Blessedness and Woe, Reprise Blessed are you…; and woe to you… If there is an overriding lesson in the Beatitudes, found in Matthew 5, and in the Blessings and Woes, found in Luke 6, it is that life is full of blessings. And life is full of woes, at least from an emotional point of … Continue reading Blessedness and Woe, Reprise

The Woes, Part 2 “Woe to you who are full now, for you will be hungry.”[1] “Woe to you who are laughing now, for you will weep and mourn.”[2] These passages are the second and third of the four Woes found in the sixth chapter of Luke. At first glance they seem to indicate that … Continue reading The Woes, Part 2

The Woes “But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation.”[1] The “Woes” are the last four of the eight Blessings and Woes found in the sixth chapter of Luke. They differ in focus from the four Blessings and Woes that precede them, as well as from the nine Beatitudes found … Continue reading The Woes

Blessed are the Persecuted, Part 2 “Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”[1] This is the … Continue reading Blessed are the Persecuted, Part 2

Blessed are the Peacemakers, Part 4 “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”[1] What does it mean to make peace. What is the nature of the peace we attempt to make? Is peace the absence of conflict? Is peace like the calm after a thunderstorm where the atmosphere has momentarily … Continue reading Blessed are the Peacemakers, Part 4