so give me hope in the darkness
that i will see the light Jesus'words in the Gospel this week are certainly demanding... When the rich landowner asks Jesus how to inherit eternal life, Jesus tells this man to give everything away to the poor (who, presumably, he defrauded to build his wealth). Interpretations upon this pericope abound... (I paraphrase) Maybe when Jesus says it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than it is for a wealthy person to enter G-d's reign alludes to a gate in Jerusalem called "eye of the needle." Supposedly this gate (which has absolutely no archeological evidence) required that the camel unload everything to get through the gate. Or Perhaps this call to sell everything and give it to the poor only applies to this man. Jesus' categorical demand is that people leave whatever it is that keeps them from following. And so on. While neither of the two examples are particularly true to Je...