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Hey there, Sprouds. Today is Tuesday, July 13th, 2021.

Yesterday we started our look at the second of the beatitudes.

We are looking at the beatitudes from the gospel of Matthew in chapter 5.

And the second beatitude is this.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

Yesterday we explored how Jesus sees our pain and how in order to be happy, we need to

turn to him for comfort, not think we're

going to get it from other people or from distractions or that we're going to be able to fix

ourselves, but that we will only be happy if our comfort comes from Christ.

Now, there are several other important lessons that we can pull out of this

beatitude. And today, we are going to talk about the important call to repentance. Now, repentance

is a big word, but it's something that we experience from the time we are very little.

Repentance is when we have done something bad or even got into a bad habit.

We realize that it is wrong.

We ask for forgiveness and we decide to live differently and to start again.

That is repentance, to repent for our past sins.

But something that is important that Christ points out here is that we should be quite

sad, even to the point of crying, when we think about the ways that we have sinned against Jesus.

And in fact, being sad about our sins is important.

Christ is saying, blessed are those who mourn, who look back on the sins that they have committed

and that they feel sadness. Now, if you do something nasty and you don't feel bad about it at all,

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