Almost everything we have been taught about success runs directly counter to the first Beatitude. We are formed by a world that rewards competence, penalizes vulnerability, and treats need as weakness. We bring these instincts into the spiritual life and produce the same result: a Christianity of performance, a faith in which the strong survive and the broken feel excluded. Jesus begins the Sermon on the Mount with a statement so counterintuitive that… Read more: Daily Renewal – Poor In Spirit