If I think I pass any of them, that would be a huge show of pride, wouldn’t it?
Well, reading them is a good place to start to find out! Honest now, do I see myself as “poor in spirit”? My ire can be aroused pretty easily. I had a note on my desk one time that said something like this, “A person is only as big as what it takes to make him mad.” Roger reminded me of my note when I saw a cockroach under the sink! Am I no bigger than a cockroach? I sure can get ticked off at finding one of those critters.
I am laughing a bit. I do really think one can hate cockroaches, but I don’t think they ought to make one curse and throw things. Maybe make me mad enough to move the ‘frig all by myself! 😀
Moving right along to the second Beatitude….
How about hunger and thirst after righteousness? Can I judge that by where my priorities are in the amount of time I spend in things of the Kingdom? If so, I’d say I could use some more priority time just meditating on Jesus. Enough judging myself today.
Wow, seven more beatitudes to go. Can I face myself in all of them?
I end in thanks to my loving Jesus.
Sweet aroma 
Haha! Yes, the cockroach thing IS a wake-up call, isn’t it?
Fortunately they are not too common in our part of the country. However, I do find some occasionally. I trot down to Walmart and get opioids for them – sure enough it kills them too. 😀
LOL
We had a lawn mower that made my husband curse….he got rid of it because he said if something made you made enough to curse you needed to! He was right. He has kind of made it his motto LOL.
Nice solution. 😀
Once cockroaches make it to our food list(who knows with our dwindling resources), we will start loving them😂. How many ways to cook cockroach – there is a thought.
Yuck! Give me a locust. Yuck again! 😀
Cockroaches will survive a nuclear holocaust, so if you are lone survivor, you need to practice now😂
I’ll wait.
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Funny, but straight to the heart. Thanks!
Cockroaches, weeds, head lice. Now that makes me thankful for weeds. I just came in from outside and surveyed my great weed problem. Didn’t do much about them. They pull up easily after rain in the night. If I could enlist some help, I would enjoy some outside help today. But I don’t want to risk another fall out by myself.
True, don’t risk another fall! God bless you!
Thank you.
Funny and meaningful. Thank you. I laughed.
Once, one of our sons ‘clean bowled’ a jug of milk (with a salt and pepper shaker) and it fell all over a raffia mat floor. The ‘don’t cry over spilt milk’ refrain was not helpful to me as I roared like a bull elephant and cried as I replaced all the matting and mopped up five litres of milk. Thank God the Beatitudes are Kingdom Principles and certainly from the King’s Perspective these things He will bring about in us. For now one day at a time I will repent and trust that Abba my Father in Heaven is refining and forming me. Greetings to all the explosive and broken often children, of a Holy God.
Yep, we do blow sometimes. But hopefully not to anyone else’s, and even for those times we have an advocate with the Father who whips up the milk with us, and gives us the go ahead to go on about our business. He is good. He is calming in the midst of the storm.
I like Roger’s philosophy. Can’t always practice it, (thinking about devices), but it’s theoretically sound. ☺
At least the situation put the context in a picture so I could understand it. 😀
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