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<\/a><\/div>\nI mentioned the other day that I had saved up some Christmas gift money and used it to help me buy my friend John C.H.Wu\u2019s<\/a> book The Interior Carmel: The Threefold Way of Love.<\/em> The book is John\u2019s reflection on Christianity as The Way of Love.<\/p>\n John uses the Beatitudes as his guide. There are eight beatitudes and thus John\u2019s book has eight chapters. Let me share an excerpt from his third chapter with you. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the land.<\/em><\/p>\n For most of my life, instead of reading the word \u201cmeek,\u201d I read this as \u201cweak.\u201d Truth be told, I didn\u2019t really know the meaning of the word \u201cmeek.\u201d I only knew that it didn\u2019t mean what I wanted to be when I grew up, and that word was \u201cstrong.\u201d<\/p>\n Now that I am a Catholic, my mind is more open than it once was. Maybe that seems paradoxical, but be that as it may, this is true. Sometimes you just have to throw the Merriam-Webster dictionary as far away from you as you can because, though seemingly authoritative, it doesn\u2019t necessarily have a lock on the definition of the word \u201cmeek.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Now, let\u2019s have a look at my friend John\u2019s passage that I promised,<\/p>\n
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\nBut first, let\u2019s have a look at the third beatitude, shall we? In the list of beatitudes from Our Lord\u2019s Sermon on the Mount,<\/em> the third beatitude is,<\/p>\n