Class 10/8

The reading last night focused on material things and how they are not required to be prosperous. Wealth does not indicate Gods favor either. The moral of the chapter is that we should seek heavenly rewards rather than earthly rewards. The picture taken by Dorothea Lange is of a 32 year old impoverished woman. The photographer did not ask her name or her history. The woman had been living on frozen vegetables and birds her children killed. She had just sold the tired of her car to buy food for her children. What sticks out to me is the exchange that occurred here. The woman in the photo understood that this picture might help her while at the same time helping the photographer, so there was equality about it.