God’s Odd Benedictions, V: The Merciful
And so when Jesus ascends the mountain to share what the kingdom of God is like, and he says “blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy,” there is something inherently foolish knit within. You cannot win or achieve or work for or attain something that already was in the beginning. “In the beginning was mercy.” This is not something that can be earned. Mercy is not tit for tat, quid pro quo, like for like, or what goes around comes around.
Mercy already was, already has been, always will be.