1. Word(s) that caught my attention:                poor
2. Emotion evoked:                                        panic
3. Invitation for me:                                        Who am I? Or should I ask, How am I? Am I poor or rich? Is Christ looking at me with sadness or joy? Is knowing who I am can be really helping or it just imposes larger sense of guilt? I think those were the questions that the young man asked. He was looking for something to fill the big void for God that he tried to patch up with piety and even humility. But what he didn?t want to admit was the fact that he was like the poor. That little reservation of self-concience, self-pity, and self-righteousness, and self-service prevented him from embarking on the greatest journey of his life. In the end he became so poor that we almost feel bad for him or may be it is us who see Christ?s back disappearing in the cloud of road dust, and we cannot get up thinking, ?What did just happen??, and, Who am I?