Waiting for Godot

Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.  Matthew 5:4 NASB Mourn – Samuel Beckett’s play raises a critical question for humanity.  It does so with a kind of dramatic insanity.  “Vivian Mercier described Waiting for Godot as a play which ‘has achieved a theoretical impossibility—a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps audiences glued…

The Sleeper Awakes

It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, because that is the end of every man, and the living takes it to heart. Ecclesiastes 7:2 Takes It To Heart – “Blessed are those who mourn.”  At least that’s the way we usually read Matthew 5:4. …

Abel’s Funeral

For I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them and make them rejoice from their affliction. Jeremiah 31:13 Mourning – “Blessed are those who mourn,” said Yeshua.  Do you suppose He was connecting this thought with Jeremiah 31, the prophet’s announcement of the new covenant?  It certainly seems possible, especially when we…

Mourn

“Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted” Matthew. 5:4 Mourn – Most funerals are traumatic occasions.  Mourning brings about the acute awareness of powerlessness – an essential ingredient in spiritual growth.  Most of the time we operate on the mistaken belief that life revolves around us.  Most of the time we think…