Biblical Theology of Wealth and Poverty - The Course I spent $1000 on

I'm sitting in a starbucks right now trying to buckle down, knuckle down and do it do it do it. What am I trying to do? Homework! I'm taking a course called, "Biblical Theology of Wealth and Poverty" and I'm trying to let it change me.  So far it's almost working. My longing to understand who God is and who his people *were* is growing deeper. I'm realizing, however, just how disconnected I am from that context. The only poor people I am confronted with in my Urban Calgary environment are drug addicted beggars who we all KNOW are just going to spend change on drugs and if I give them food - then they have all the more money to spend on their drug of choice. So I've grown callous towards the poor - I forget that Calgary's poor aren't really poor but are in fact still part of the wealthiest 5% of the world. There are people who are so poor they must sell their children into the sex trade to feed themselves or their other children - these are the poor I should consider when I'm studying this course. It's such a complicated place to be in right now.  I spent $1000 to enroll in the course where I learned that it's basically not ok that I spend $1000 on private university education. Now I'm at a Starbucks with my laptop studying how God's people responded to social injustice in the ancient world. I'm confused and stuck and I feel like the more I invest into my pursuit of God, the farther away I get from The Kingdom.