How are the poor “blessed”? They know they need God! That is simply and truly the best blessing of all. And when those who know they need God find him, they find everything. Furthermore, once they come to know God, they understand that without him they have absolutely nothing—pain, poverty, helplessness and hopelessness. The poor are quite unlike the rest of us in that sense. When we find God, we tend to place him alongside everything else we have: our wealth, our conveniences, our abilities, our ingenuity, our relationships…
