The poor in spirit can't help but see the value in others. Being poor of spirit means you realize the lowliness of your own position and lay aside your quest for importance. Arriving at such a state of poverty comes from realizing your own condition of sin.
When this condition is realized you can love others more than ever before because your expectations of them are much less. You don't expect perfection. You gracefully receive their shortcomings. Because you see the log in your own eye you have a greater understanding of the speck in your brother's (or sister's).
And it's just that - a speck. What before drew most of your frustration for your brother now draws nearly none because you understand your own shortcomings and as a result give more grace. Now that the frustrations are taken down to a speck you are able to see the vast amount of worth and beauty God has placed in this person - because this person, and all people, are made in and with God's image.
Being poor in spirit - realizing the sin in our heart that frustrates others - gives us grace to accept how others frustrate us and frees us to see God in them.
Holy Spirit of truth, help me to understand the truth of myself. Help me gain a right view of myself and others. Help me to see my sin so that through Christ I may be free from it - and therefore free to see you in those I formerly judged for their imperfections. Through Jesus Christ our Lord I ask for this grace and gift.
Amen
