Day 5

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Matthew 5:3

Read it aloud. Then sit with it. Say nothing for two minutes.

What changes if the emptiness in you is the doorway and not the disqualification?

The card is drawn on your own phone and never leaves it until you send it.

A note on one word: blessed

The Greek is makarios. It is a declaration, not a description of mood: its opposite in Luke 6 is woe, not unhappy. Flourishing also sits inside the range of the Greek and is kept as Root's reading in the glossary. Blessed stands here because it carries the declaration without making the most-read sentence in the Sermon on the Mount strange to read.