The Beatitudes are one of the best known portiotns of Scripture because they tell us how to have a blessed, happy life. We live in a very unhappy world. Someone has said, "Unhappiness is not knowing what you really want and working yourself to death to get it." Blessed living is knowing what you want and that you don't have to work for it and you can't buy it, because it is a gift of grace from a loving God. The first step on a "journey into blessed living" is understanding what statement of Jesus in Matthew 5:3?
