Peacemaking contains all the elements of the Christian faith. Peacemaking is the result of not only taking the beatitudes seriously, but living them. It involves right relationships. Right relationships with God, right relationships with God’s people and right relationships with God’s creation. It involves love. Proper love of self, love of God and creation, and love of all people—even our enemies. It is not passive, it is active; it is peacemaking not peacekeeping. Above all, it is following the way of Jesus, which was the way of the cross, where his power was made perfect in weakness (2 Cor. 12:9).
―Donald R. Clymer,
Meditations on the Beatitudes:
Lessons from the Margins
Image source: Károly Ferenczy, The Sermon on the Mount (1896),
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