by jakeowensby | Jan 27, 2023 | Beatitude, Humble, Lent, Matthew 5:1-12, Poor in Spirit
We all want to be happy. And yet, if you dedicate your life to pursuing happiness, you’ll never be happy. This may seem like a contradiction to you. But prophets and theologians, philosophers and priests have been saying it for ages. Recently I heard a story that...
by jakeowensby | Oct 30, 2020 | grace, Matthew 5:1-12
Hardly a day goes by that my maternal grandmother doesn’t come to mind. She’s been gone a while now. And yet I clearly remember coming home one night from a philosophy lecture to hear the news that she had died unexpectedly. I slumped into a chair and stared into...