The Meek

“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”

We cannot forget who we are. We are called to be loving and caring children of God which means that we cannot overlook anyone in need. I have never met a person whom I would call a meek person. All whom I have met are wealthy; that does not mean they are rich. But all whom I have met have jobs, even if the job is mowing lawns or securing shopping carts in a parking lot.

The meek are the salt of the earth; these are the people who share all they have. My mother’s family was this way. There was not a crumb of food that they would not share with any stranger they met. Suffering through the horrors of the Great Depression, they understood how sharing benefitted all neighbors. Growing up in the city of my birth, we all shared. When a father lost a job, food appeared on the table of the family until a new job was found. These are the meek that Jesus adored. These are the meek that are missing in society today.

I am ashamed to have lost that ability to be meek. My life has not been so easy, but I have lost the ability to be meek in the way that Jesus asks. I have taught myself welcoming and forgiving and healing and to be spiritually open and loving to all of God’s creation. I try with every living breath to atone for my lacking ability to be as meek as Jesus asks.

But I think I fear to be the meek that Jesus praises when He speaks of those who will inherit the earth. God bless them. A wise man once wrote, “Do not forget who you are. Do not forget your calling to be God’s people in the world.” This is what we owe the meek.