Sometimes in life we need to actively work to live in the moment. We can wallow in regrets over the past or become preoccupied with worries about the future. For those times, Jesus reminds us of the futility of worry and that sufficient for one day is its own evil (see Matthew 6).
At other times, we can become stuck in the current moment and lose our perspective. We might forget that all things in this world, for better or worse, are fleeting, and that the world to come is eternal.
Though I have read the beatitudes dozens of times and even studied them in detail, when I read them today, it struck me that all of these “blesseds” and “woes” remind us that our current state is not permanent. Like it or not, whatever we are experiencing in this world right now, it will pass.
Let’s live like it.
A veces en la vida tenemos que trabajar activamente para vivir el momento. Podemos revolcarnos en remordimientos por el pasado o preocuparnos por preocupaciones sobre el futuro. Para esos momentos, Jesús nos recuerda la futilidad de la preocupación y que basta un día con su propio mal (ver Mateo 6).
En otros momentos, podemos quedar atrapados en el momento actual y perder nuestra perspectiva. Podríamos olvidar que todas las cosas en este mundo, para bien o para mal, son fugaces, y que el mundo venidero es eterno.
Aunque he leído las bienaventuranzas docenas de veces e incluso las he estudiado en detalle, cuando las leí hoy, me llamó la atención que todos estas “bienaventuranzas” y “penas” nos recuerdan que nuestro estado actual no es permanente. Nos guste o no, lo que sea que estemos experimentando en este mundo en este momento, pasará.
Así que, vivamos de acuerdo a esta realidad.
J.M. Pallas has had a lifelong love of Scriptures. When she is not busy with her vocation as a wife and mother to her “1 Samuel 1” son, or her vocation as a public health educator, you may find her at her parish women’s bible study, affectionately known as “The Bible Chicks.”
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