These early weeks of Ordinary Time, we ponder the Sermon on the Mount. The Beatitudes are familiar words, framed and hung in parish halls. But the Beatitudes cannot be just platitudes, for Jesus turns around our assumptions of what is truly valuable. The Beatitudes ask us to refocus, to look again at our world; but this time with God's eyes and see what counts in the end. For in the end, what truly endures is those who've lived the Beatitudes.