Watch the sunrise

Saturday October 21st, Mark 10: 26 The disciples were even more amazed, and said to each other, "Who then can be saved?" 27 Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God." It is not the wealth that condemns us, it is the ungodly things we do to get it. “It is not that the weak are virtuous. No, as power corrupts the strong, so lack of it corrupts the weak. Suspicion, intolerance, apathy – all these fruits of weakness characterize life in the slums. But truth is a liability. It can be championed only at cost. Therefore the victors of society, with more to lose, always have more to gain by avoiding truth. Therefore Jesus could say, ‘it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle that for a rich men to enter the kingdom of heaven.’ And therefore we can say with a fair degree of accuracy that while the rich have given us our standards of taste it has generally been the poor who have told us what is right and wrong” Creedo by William Sloane Coffin.

It is just that the less you have surrounding your compound, for thus most modern dwellings have become, the more difficult it is to view the sunrise of God’s grace.