Beauty and pain.

True to the human experience are beauty and pain.

Living in this world as a follower of Christ means we try to live in the tension of the life's beauty and pain. Poverty of spirit is the result of embracing too much of life's pain. Personal peace and affluence result from the extreme of embracing too much of it's beauty.

The one numbs you to the reality of God's glory and the other to the the reality of human suffering...