You can't expect to make all this money and not go through problems. You can't expect God to give you everything you want without taking something away.
Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.
When I was asked: "Will shame do it?" Meaning: Will welfare people be shamed into getting respectable work? And I said that shame plays the biggest role there is: The biggest shame is that there is so much abundance around but that so many have so little and so few have so much. That's the shame.
The same powerful Scripture text that brings a loving person to even greater love will be mangled and misused by a fearful or egocentric person. This is surely what Jesus means when he talks about the one who has being given more and those who have not losing what little they have.
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
In all abundance there is lack.
I have so very much. I have so very little.
In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.
If nothing were substituted for everything, it would still be too much and too little.
