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 </color> (Matthew 5,3)
+Jesus talks a lot about the kingdom of heaven. He talks about the community with God, the creator, the
+beginning and the end. The kingdom of heaven is a term pointing to the original and eternal community
+with the God who made all what is. This community is described as good, as holy, as full of truth,
+love, faithfulness and purity. Blessing points to everything which comes from the eternal heavenly
+community. Heaven points to God who is beyond our world. This location is not within our world, but
+far away. At the same time, God is there in the middle of our world. He came as a human
+in Jesus. And he wants to have community with us through the Holy Spirit.
+Our ranking is not valid when it comes to God. Who is able to get into the community with God? We are
+not getting there by our talent. We do not get there by our achievement. We do not get into this
+community by using our money, or our fame, or our status. All of this does not help us.
+But being poor before God, being poor in spirit, that is the starting point to address him. He made
+everything anyway. Being poor in spirit means that we acknowledge that all talent is merely a present
+and gift of the most high. We have nothing we could give to buy anything from him. But we can receive
+his love, his truth, his mercy. We can acknowledge him as the creator, as the origin and purpose of
+the creation. Here, when we start to look at him as those who are poor indeed, we find an open door to
+enter his community. It is the door he created in Jesus.
+This door can be yours and it can be mine today and each and every minute.
 (Roland Potthast)