Help with being Blessed

The Roman Catholic Lectionary today includes the text from Matthew’s Gospel where Jesus presents the a picture of the “Blessed Life”. The person who relies on God for guidance and direction will move toward the attitudes of humility, simplicity, peace making, purity and righteousness which are recognized today as having a quality of “blessedness” This like the proclamation of the psalmist today may be the ability to know that help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. Matthew and the author of 1st Kings do not predict a life free of trouble and trial. “Blessed “is in knowing that the indwelling Spirit is in communion with the Divine during all of life’s events.