Richard considers this simple beatitude – Blessed are the merciful for they shall receive mercy. Richard considers how mercy is good but not always easy.
The discussion examples are shown below.
- A man who has ended up in debt through bad choices, addictions and gambling, and who is struggling to engage with the help he’s being offered.
- A woman who left the country several years ago to join a terrorist organisation but who now wants to return to this country with her children.
- A single mum with lots of children who’s always late for school and seems to feel entitled to park on a double yellow line, blocking the flow of traffic on the school run.
- An angry man who feels that no one helps him even though he believes his entitled to help, and does little to help himself.
- A rude shop assistant who you see regularly in a shop near your home.
- An opinionated person who holds an entrenched, maybe extreme, point of view about other people or groups of people (eg refugees, travellers, the poor) and who won’t stop talking about it.
- A neighbor who seems miserable and miserly. He often deliberately does things to make hard for others and is generally unneighbourly.
