This week’s reflection is taken from Richard Rohr’s Center for Action and Contemplation. The Center’s weekly e-news offered some great reflection questions rooted in the Beatitudes, and I find them thought provoking. I hope they inform your own discernment…blessings on your week ahead!
Practicing the Beatitudes
Do I embrace poverty of spirit—or flee from it at the speed of light?
For whom have I been in mourning?
How meek am I in my response to the gospels?
In what ways am I hungry for righteousness?
How merciful am I regarding those who in some way have done me harm?
How pure is my heart and what keeps it so impure?
In what ways am I trying to purify my heart?
What are the divisions that intersect my life and in what ways am I responding to these divisions as a peacemaker?
What enemies do I love? For which enemies am I praying?
Whose threatened life am I trying to safeguard?
Do I accept persecution as a blessing—or do I avoid anything that might get me into trouble?
-From peace activist and Orthodox Christian Jim Forest (1941–2022)
Keeping the Faith 