It also may mean more meals of beans and soup instead of steak and dessert. If you are really in a financial bind, most bills can be postponed or partially paid. Be sure to always contact your creditors and work something out with them instead of just leaving them in the dark about why you are late. But the emphasis should be less on our complaining and more on our listening to instruction from the Spirit and the word. Even the poorest American is rich compared to the standards of the world.
People can learn to live on very little when they have to.
We Americans are a spoiled and self-indulgent society. We want money and possessions, and we never seem to have enough. All those things that money can buy are so unimportant from a heavenly perspective. He takes nothing from his labor that he can carry in his hand. All our efforts for riches and possession is nothing more than toiling for the wind.