Blessed in your human condition

If we read the Beatitudes carefully, we see what Jesus considers will make us happy: Blessed are they who mourn; blessed are the lowly; blessed are the poor in spirit. All these attributes can be summed up with; blessed are you in your humanness. Our very cries to be delivered from our weakness should be cries of gratitude for the realization of God's goodness to us. We are blessed not because of some virtue we possess, but because, when we see how very much God can work in our lives through our humanness, we become vessels of God. So we should realize that such frailties are not really limiting unless we stop with them, we keep our eyes on ourselves.

Jesus tells us to lift up our eyes, to recognize the goodness of God, who can do all things. Why should we be blessed to be human when we are seeking the divine? Because the first step to divinity is an openness to God, and realizing our need for God widens the door of our heart, if we take it in the right spirit. So instead of being discouraged, we should be full of joy that we are so human as to depend of God for everything. For he who created all things has no problem redeeming us. He just likes to get credit for it.