Woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. Woe to you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who are laughing now, for you will mourn and weep. Where to you, when all speak well of you, for that is what their ancestors did to the false prophets. The Beatitudes, the list in which Jesus declares that those who are poor, hungry, weeping and hated for his sake makes for challenging reading.

Fr Sam Rossiter-Peters encourages us to trust that the one who is God will bring about the future he said he would, no matter how impossible that future seems, because God is God and you are not. If you don't trust that Jesus was who he said he was, then the question is, "How surely?" because the Beatitudes place across roads in front of each one of us. They say, there is a hard road and it will lead to God. And there's an ...