What do you do when Jealousy enters a friendship? How do you navigate it? Have a listen to this week’s Episode of Living Fullness to find out.
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Episode 5. Gratitude and the Virtue of Justice
What does Justice have to do with Gratitude? and how do you overcome an ungrateful heart? and what is it’s link to a contrite heart. Have a read of the show notes or listen to this week’s episode on Living Fullness to find out.
Ep 3. Online dating Part 2
Part 2 of Online Dating with a focus on Not stringing people along, How many you should date at any one time, ending contacts in the online world when you’ve met someone, and ending contacts without ghosting anyone
8. Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven
The cross is the way to heaven. Standing for your conviction and for the one you love, God, when God is not who the world generally loves, that will cause all kinds of friction. The beatitudes see heaven as our end goal, the world can’t see past death. To the world, this makes no sense. Suffering makes no sense. Persecution is to be avoided at all cost and not embraced for love of God.
5. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy
Our Christian faith hinges on Mercy. God didn’t give us what we deserve, he gifts us mercy. Do we give others better than they deserve? or do we look to get even? to act from a place of self-entitlement? If there is anything we should be known for, it’s people who are merciful, because we follow the model set before us in Christ, our merciful saviour.
4. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be filled
Do we notice what someone is owed and hunger for them to receive that?
These include all the major fights for justice we know about – fighting for life, and for freedom, against enslavement of all kinds in countries where it’s obvious the vulnerable are held to work and do things against their will, and in the western world, the vulnerable secretly held trapped in certain life styles resulting from human trafficking
2. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted
There is no goodness to be found in crying in and of itself. It’s when we cry (as a response to compassion) for something or for someone that it takes on meaning.
The Beatitude Series – 1. Blessed are the Poor in Spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven
On the Living Fullness Podcast we have begun a series on the Beatitudes and exploring how each of these bring the commandments to fulfilment, creating a path of abundance in this life and the next. This episode particularly focuses on the 1st Beatitude and the various detachments we need to have including what Thomas Aquinas mentions as needing to ‘Despise what Jesus despised on the Cross, and Love what Jesus loved on the Cross’. These detachments include putting all else to the service of God, and ensuring we have our hearts and minds rightly ordered.