>Only if you are in a materialistic mindset. God's goal is
>to bring us closer to Him, and sometimes poverty is means
>for this goal. In all honesty, I never realized how far I
>was from Him until I went to Honduras and witnessed people
>with nothing who were more content than anyone I've ever
>come across in the States. Peace,

Being raised Catholic instills you with a certain stoic contentment with life's inevitable miseries (and I'm only half-kidding about that - ha ha)

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"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all.
It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth
your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable
Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." - Frank McCourt