We have heard our parents say, “I don’t want you to have it as hard as my generation had it!”  As good and gracious as those comments are, we must step back and realize the danger of having it too good, being too soft and too affluent.  Even the writer John Steinbeck said, “If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much—make it greedy, miserable, and sick.”  On an even higher level, C. H. Spurgeon said, “I am never afraid of my brethren who have many troubles, but I often