We hear often that God’s Kingdom is an upside-down Kingdom.
 Today’s Gospel reading, Matthew 5:1-12 which incorporates the Sermon on the Mount,
reminds us of this. Here on earth we celebrate ‘big’ wins, ‘striving for
goals’ and ‘likes’. We pay little attention to small things, or things that
need extra care- although sometimes these are the very things we might
find most beautiful! Have you ever seen a peacock spider? I encourage
you to look it up and see if you can watch one dance! We could squash
a peacock spider with our size and hurry- while striving towards our next
goal.
 
Yet God is attentive to the small things- not kings but children; not
wise men but those who starve beyond the city gates. There is hope for
all of us in this. We will always find someone ‘above’ us, with more
‘likes’, or more lofty goals. It might make us feel weak, insignificant or
overlooked. Yet in the Kingdom of God we are loved, valued and ‘seen’-
with just as much beauty as our Creator has given us. We are as brightly
shining in the eyes of our Father as that peacock spider! May we see
others with those same eyes this week. Amen.

Message presented by Dr. Bruce Arnold. 

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