Peacemakers

Friday February 7^th, Matthew 5:  ⁶"You're blessed when you've worked up a good appetite for God. He's food and drink in the best meal you'll ever eat. ⁷"You're blessed when you care. At the moment of being 'care-full,' you find yourselves cared for.  ⁸"You're blessed when you get your inside world—your mind and heart—put right. Then you can see God in the outside world.  ⁹"You're blessed when you can show people how to cooperate instead of compete or fight. That's when you discover who you really are, and your place in God's family. These next four blessings are for things that we do.  In our life as a child of God we are in a continuous spiral.  We go from prayer and the presence God to work in the kingdom that was motivated by that prayer and presence.  Then we find ourselves driven from that work in the kingdom into the prayer and presence of God, where we are fed and nourished for the journey.  In the process we find ourselves blessed.  In our life it is when focus on the needs of others and caring for those needs that our life begins to take on meaning and the deepest needs of our lives are fulfilled.  We also find that when we let Christ in, when we open the door we have been holding so tightly shut, when we give up control to God in our lives that we begin to see God all around us in our life and in the lives of others.  Filled with the Holy Spirit, filled with the prayer and presence of Christ we then have no choice, we become the voice, the hands and the heart of God in the world.  When others notice they call us peacemakers.