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Today is Tuesday, July 27th, 2021.

This week we are talking about the fourth beatitude.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Now yesterday we talked about how righteousness is holiness and how, in order to be happy, we need to have the number

one desire of our life, even above like actual hunger and thirst, we should have a desire for holiness.

And holiness, of course, is that personal relationship with God. But how that relationship can only

be real if the love of God spills out into the relationships with people in our lives, both those we know

well and strangers. Now, today we are going to talk about this desire for a personal conversion.

Now, in order to begin this conversation, we need to talk about the word conversion. Do you know what conversion

means? Well, conversion simply means turning around, turning around. To convert something

means to change it. And when we talk about conversion in the spiritual life, it means that I might have been headed

in the wrong direction, whether I'm headed in the exact opposite direction or I'm just

slightly off course. I'm going to have a personal conversion where I stop trying to direct

my own path. I find God and I follow His will for my life. I follow Him.

Now, I know that that might seem kind of abstract, but the way that we come to a personal conversion begins with a desire for truth.

A desire for truth.

I want to know what is true.

Now, what does it look like to desire to know what is true?

Well, this means that there is a longing inside of me. I know that there is a God

out there. I've heard lots of people, my teachers, or my parents talk to me about it, but I want to

really investigate on my own and allow God to speak directly to me.

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