 And what does God call us to do? Well, Jesus lays it out in Matthew's gospel with the beautiful Beatitudes, where he calls us to become poor in spirit, to be meek, to hunger and thirst for righteousness, to be merciful, clean of heart, to be peacemakers, and also to be willing to put up with persecutions. Because again, we got the Lord on our side. He's walking with us. He's giving us the graces and the strength that we need