We've been climbing this mountain together all spring and summer — sitting with Jesus and the Beatitudes as wisdom for how life actually works, and as a proclamation of what is already true about us and about the world.

Today we come to the sixth beatitude. And if the first five have been clearing away what gets in the way — the grasping, the avoiding, the comparing, the numbness, the contempt — then this one names what we've been clearing toward.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

Not the morally perfect. Not the religiously correct. Not the ones who have it all figured out.

The wholehearted.

The ones in whom what is inside and what is outside finally match.

Come, then. There is nothing to hide here. You are in the right place. Know matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here.