a silver day
73F 98% mostly cloudy Wind ESE 9 mph. Had a ham sandwich and second muggaBlack, now contemplating my blueberry muffin, a lifelong but seldom indulged favorite. Flight of pelicans coast by seven levels down at sea level, inches above, skimming the Bay surface. By this time next week I will be asleep after having been up all night to witness הוֹי doom or salvation evolve on the big screen.
The breeze brings whiffs of the past, mine and others' and memories of everyone to whom I owe my Being, yes stretching back to Genesis 1, Let there be, but focuses on StAndrewsBay and Davis Point, which never leave heart and mind and under covid discipline seldom leave sight. A silver day:
Matthew 5. 1 seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: 2 and he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, 3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. 5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. 6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. 7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. 8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. 9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. 10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
Matthew's beatitudes, our gospel for Sunday inevitably stir up Luke's that, more simple, may be closer to Jesus' actual words:
Luke 6. 17 And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judæa and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases; 18 and they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed. 19 And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.
20 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. 21 Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh. 22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake. 23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
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24 But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation. 25 Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep. 26 Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
The Woes. οὐαὶ an expression of grief, denunciation, damnation הוֹי woe, alas, how terrible for you, for it will not go well with you in the kingdom where the Son of Man prefers the poor and devastated.