Thank you Jeremy for setting this up. I am interested in learning with all of you and it is very good to reconnect with some of you.

We did a series on the Beatitudes last year in church, so it will be good to spend some more time reflecting on these versus.

I am a week behind (now 2 weeks behind, it appears) and feel compelled to make a few short comments on last week’s dialog.

I enjoyed keaner’s post. Right down to business and squarely what I take away from these versus. I don’t reflect on this enough.

I really appreciate the contextual perspective Scott gave us. As I age, I enjoy the history lessons around many of these versus – much of which was too complex in our first round of learning (grade school).

Thanks for the different translation Aggie! I’ll read versus like these in as many translations I can.

Jeremy’s wrap-up comments 5:6 are particularly compelling. Hunger & thirst. Admittedly my thirst for truth and knowledge wanes. I wish I felt this primal hunger and thirst for truth and knowledge daily. I have obsessive/compulsive traits (ask my wife). Fortunately I’ve been able to apply these traits mostly for the good: obsessing about studying and my grades got me through engineering school, obsessing about fitness program has attributed some success as a runner and triathlete. I don’t feel these same obsession, often enough, about learning God’s word. Something to reflect on and work on.