" If the Beatitudes were describing how we view blessing from a cultural perspective, we would read something like, “Blessed are you when everything goes your way.” Or, “Blessed are you when all your dreams come true.” A blessed life, as any normal person would define it, would be a life free from mourning, not a life marked by it! "

― Kyle Idleman , The End of Me: Where Real Life in the Upside-Down Ways of Jesus Begins