You attribute it to their being blessed. Sacrifice isn't easy. Faith ironically invokes trouble. The road becomes narrower, the drive more wrenching. Experience wisely teaches that a good life is one full of happiness, living with family and friends.
Happiness is crucial to spiritual growth as are people, experiences and events.
If you have faith, you can have anything. Everything is possible. Everything is possible. You will walk where you haven't walked before. You will run.