This brings us back to the words 'poor in spirit'; the poverty that opens the kingdom of heaven lies in the knowledge that if nothing that is mine is really mine, then everything that is mine is a gift of love, divine or human love, and that makes things quite different. If we realise that we have no being in ourselves, and yet we exist, we can say that there is a sustained unceasing act of divine love. If we see that whatever we have, we can in no wise compel to be ours, then everything is divine love, concretely expressed at every single moment; and then poverty is the root of perfect joy because all we have proves love. We should never attempt to appropriate things to ourselves because to call something 'ours', and not a constant gift of God, means less and not more. If it is mine, it is alien to the relationship of mutual love; if it is His and I possess it from day to day, from split second to split second, it is a continuously renewed act of divine love. Then we come to the joyful thought: 'Thanks be to God, it is not mine; if it were mine, it would mean possession, but alas without love.' The relationship to which this thought brings us is what the Gospel calls the Kingdom of God. Only those belonging to the Kingdom who receive all things from the King in the relationship of mutual love and who do not want to be rich, because to be rich means to be dispossessed of love while possessed of things. The moment when we discover God within the situation and that all things are God's and everything is of God, then we begin to enter this divine Kingdom and acquire freedom.
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