Blessed Are You, The Kind Hearted

"Blessed are the merciful" Have a deep concern for the welfare of others, to become generous, open-hearted and open-handed. "The pure in heart are blessed, " describing the ability to approach all people free from duplicitous motives, free of self-serving. "Peacemakers are blessed. they're nothing less than the children of God." Peacemaking is the ability to be candid, constructive, and caring; to pursue peace in a world that is full of war, dissension, conflicts and arguments. "Those who are persecuted are blessed." It is a call to have joyful purposefulness finding courage in affliction, finding perseverance in opposition. These are wonderful traits. These are the traits of leadership and loving fruitfulness. (Ref: The Sermon on the Mount of Jesus. Mahatma Gandhi was very much influenced by these ideas to form his art of Nonviolence) .