enough for a comfortable retirement, however short or long that might be? How can I keep what I’ve saved from personal predators (tax officials, robbers, beggars, moochers, unscrupulous relatives) and impersonal depredations (bad weather, corrosive “moth and rust,” deleterious free-market forces)?137 These nervous, self-reliant, and God-denying questions underlie Jesus’s parable of the rich fool, as it is typically called. But it is not really the rich man’s story. Along with God’s stunning direct