Just finished reading the book Upside-Down Spirituality: The 9 Essential Failures of a Faithful Life by Chad Bird to complete my week-long break readings. It was a good reminder for me, in terms of how I should view myself, my calling, and how I relate with the body of believers.
This is taken from the epilogue of the book:
The Beatitudes of Upside-Down Spirituality
Blessed are those who fail to believe in themselves, who fail to believe that God believes in them, for they shall find in Jesus only everything their heart desires.
Blessed are those who don't make a name for themselves but rejoice that their names are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Blessed are those who don't follow their hearts, for they follow the Lamb wherever He goes.
Blessed are those who fail at being supermoms and superdads, for they are forgiven children of our Father in heaven.
Blessed are those who fail to find their calling, for theirs is the kingdom where life and love and service find them.
Blessed are those who fail at finding anyone in this world who completes them and who fail at sustaining their marriages by love alone but are completed and perfected in Christ, and whose marriages are sustained by the gift of Jesus and His limitless love.
Blessed are those who fail to conform to this world yet also fail to cut themselves off from it, for they know their true citizenship is in Jerusalem above.
Blessed are those who fail to have a personal relationship with Jesus but who find their life in the community of believers that is the body of Jesus Himself.
Blessed are those who fail to believe that bigger is better and who discover contentment and joy in the little message that floods the whole world with peace: Jesus Christ, crucified and risen, for us.
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