Just because one's financial life is in the crapper, it doesn't mean one (or two) is poor. I've lost my third job in four years for the companies' financial situations. By the grace of God I found the last two jobs shortly after being "let go". But this time things are different. The unemployment rate is hovering at ten percent, the State and federal governments are talking MORE tax increases after over spending by billions and trillions respectively. And there is no end in site. The only consolation I have is that I am able to receive "unemployment" continuously for over two years. Whoo-whoo. To top this all off, we, as a couple, are not "eligible" for any government assistance other than the aforementioned "unemployment". We are too "rich" to receive it.
After close examination, though, we are richer than a lot of people. We resigned ourselves long ago that we were never going to be financially "well off". We have each other, our family and friends. We are able to adjust our lifestyle - to a point - to match our current "income". We still have God's grace and understand that this earthly life is merely temporary and temporal and that hardship is due to our sinning ways. Our ultimate home is heaven and, thus, we are rich beyond all measure.
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