Jesus Is Poor

Sometimes it is worth remembering that Jesus did not just take on poverty. He was poor. He was born homeless to poor parents in a poor country occupied by a foreign power. Like most poor people unable to escape their poverty He lived his whole life as a poor person; and, like most people who dare speak out, he was killed. In the end, he was buried the way so many poor people are buried, in unmarked graves. If there is a resurrection story, then the miracle is the fact that a poor person's story is being told at all, and even occasionally listened to.