Do we need more legalism? We have been called “deplorables” – so they pass more regulations. Everyone’s a victim of some kind. Dallas Willard, one of the great thinkers and theologian of our times refers us to the Beatitudes – the greatest oratory every spoken….it was spoken by Jesus. Mr. Willard teaches us that they are not new rules. They reflect the condition we find ourselves in because we are not aware that the Kingdom of Heaven is already with us. We ordinary people are “receptacles of the divine” – as Dallas puts it – if we will open ourselves up to acting along with God’s rule from the Heavens – and not just insisting on our own little Kingdoms.