Happy are the Sad?

by Pastor Tim White

Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted.

Sometimes we Christians can get confused just like anyone else. We can emphasize one aspect of faith and life to the exclusion of an equally true aspect. For example, be happy is a very important aspect of living and of following Jesus. But in the third beatitude Jesus says “happy or (blessed) are those who mourn…” or those who are sad in an authentic human way. For example, we don’t expect a person to be happy when they lose a loved one. We are not surprised when they are sad. Some religious thinking has no room for sadness. So, our authentic humanity is deprived of the ability to feel. But Jesus says happy (blessed) are those who are sad (mourn). Happy are the sad?

We need to learn how to break out of the false religious constraints on our humanity. To learn to be authentic is essential to being the Christ-followers we want to be. Please join us for online worship as we study the third beatitude. It will be a very important moment in your life growth. And it will be a breakthrough point for all of us at Washington Cathedral.

This Sunday at 10:30am join us on You Tube, Facebook Live, www.wacathedral.org, or our Wacathedral App or any of the other places we are on the World Wide Web.

Your friend for the rest of my life,

Pastor Tim White

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