Soul Seeing: Even the best of us read Luke's Beatitudes with exactly the same literalist predisposition as the modern Me Firster who finds them ludicrous.
Our ideas of holiness are so stringent that even aspiring to it seems presumptuous. What distinguishes humans is the potential to learn and to choose love, or not.
Soul Seeing: Because of my father's sense of mercy, we were a "poor" family. I resented it until I began to understand Jesus' words and how, truly, blessed are the merciful.
Soul Seeing: I've learned a thing or two because I've seen a thing or two, so, here, for you as well as for me, are my prayers and resolutions for the New Year.
