As much as it might be difficult to believe, you are not your intellect, your power, your success, your ability to fit in at a party. You are not your ability to be happy, or healthy, or rich. It’s your weaknesses that bring you into the upside down of God’s values.

When we let go of control, when we open our hands we are, as Richard Rohr writes,”in a very creative and liminal space where God is most free to act in our lives.” And that is faith: letting go of control, believing that the life of weakness is actually the life of the Most Blessed.

Spend some time today considering Jesus’s words in Matthew 5 and reflecting on what it might mean to tell the truth to yourself.

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Links

• “The Beatitudes” is a list of blessings Jesus bestows in his Sermon on the Mount in the gospel of Matthew, chapter 5. You can read the Message translation that Micha reads in the slow practice here.
•  Find Richard Rohr’s book Jesus’s Plan For a New World here. 
• This essay originally appeared in The Slow Way Newsletter here
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