Blessed are you…Clarence Jordan writes that he has tried everywhere to find an English word that would actually translate this Greek word makarios. Some translate it as “happy.” Some translate it as “fortunate.” Some translate it as “blessed.” All those elements are in this word but they still do not fully contain it. It really means to be in a relationship, not a state of joy or happiness, but in a relationship. It means to have the deep security that comes from loving and being loved. It means to have the deep soul-satisfying experience of being in a fellowship of which you feel that you are a part and you’re carried along with it. To be in union with God and with the other brothers on the team. It’s the joy of being on a team that’s playing and going somewhere. It isn’t just fortunate or happy or blessed. It’s deeper, much deeper than that. Jordan goes on to say, “I just don’t know an English word that will translate it. I translated it, ‘to be God’s people,’ that is, to be in a fellowship of brethren who both love one another and love God. That is the joy. That is the blessing that’s talked about here.”