No Turning Back, by Timothy Murphy

1-2. The needle on a caravan refers to a caravan of camels passing through the Needle of Jerusalem.
3-4. When you make the decision to ride without a saddle, you are free... and Christ rode upon the Colt and Donkey.
5-6. The potter's tool is his treadle, the mason's grout.
7-8. He kneels to kiss God's sandals, and all the "Stones Cry out."

He was struggling with his homosexuality, his affluence and his Catholic beliefs. He made the decision to be gay, and stuck with it, but also Christian. Maybe trying to reconcile the two, that we all sin. And he's truly struggling with it. We're all affluent, so what about that?

However... affluence isn't a sin in Romans which leads to death. Or in 1 and 2 Corinthians. Homosexuality is. No man, practicing such things, can inherit eternal life. The homosexual has to repent of their homosexuality, and abstain from it, just like the adulterer or the fornicator, or the bitter man, or the slanderer or libeler or the one trying to accomplish their work of salvation themselves (Which is unrest). There can be no salvation for one who wishes to continue in their sin.

But he's struggling with that question. "If a rich man can't be saved, but is saved, why can't a sinner like me?"

I'd simply say, the righteous man wants to cease from all sin. The unregenerate does not. And God gives the power to abstain from all sin, and the willing heart, and ceases even the temptation after a while.