Uncool

"If your righteousness isn't better than the scribes and Pharisees, you won't enter the kingdom of the heavens," Matthew 5:20.

Pretty good news: they wiped out in the early swells. Only a little more effort to best them. Bad news: they were good surfers. And the beach is so, so far away. And massive rollers break way too early on hidden shoals. Bottom line: Ain't nobody cool enough. And sharks moving in. So, when Jesus speaks the beatitudes - what we've been exploring lately, right? - his words concise, his tone urgent, his heart moved - he welcomes broken men and women - there are no other kinds - well, two kinds of broken people - real people recognizing they're not cool, or, deceived people lying they're cool - sky kingdom welcomes the real ones. (Yes, deceived ones, too. If we convert to uncool. C'mon! Means we recognize our brokenness. Get real, already!)

With a brother or sister today, we affirm Jesus' sacrifice makes us whole. We enter the sky kingdom on the wake of his righteousness. And, together, we give thanks to God. The one and only. The good one.