It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God. –Mark 10: 25
Scholars say that in this passage the word “Camel” may have come from a misprint. The passage should read: It is harder for a rope to get through the eye of a needle than a rich man into heaven.
Camel is better. Camels can’t get through needles. A person who is attached to the things of this world cannot get into heaven.
This does not mean you won’t go to heaven after life. God is love; God loves you; God created you in God’s image; after this life the love in you merges with the eternal love that is God. Despite what so many religions say to scare you, you are going to heaven when you die. Why would a God who is love have it any other way?
But in this world, if you want heaven on earth, according to the parable you can’t worry about the things with which a rich man struggles. This is not a comment on whether money or things or making money is good or bad; in fact, strikingly the opposite. If you are worried about your money, the things your money buys, or making more, you are not in heaven. The attachments of the rich man that create worry prevent him from experiencing heaven on earth.
Attachments are the places where we find ourselves stressed and distracted because we are not open to the love that surrounds us all the time. To what are you attached that is keeping you from experiencing heaven on earth? Letting go of these things by making them less important is the true path to a richer life.
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
–Virginia Woolf
What attachments keep you worried?
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