There are some people who are just pretty darn "lucky," Irish and really have no more but an occasional ripple in their lives. Then there are those unfortunate souls who have had one bad day after a other ever since they were born. The rest of us fall somewhere inbetween.
But there is a difference between being tested and being tested! Being locked up in a basement since you can remember (as we read in some criminal cases), or starved, or beaten, or abused, and being some spoiled brat who didn't get his way is like night and day.
And then some people who undergo unpheavals, just like some who get drunk, actually become anything but saintly.
For if it were true that those who suffer the most are also those who are sanctified the most, then the world would be made up mostly of people with haloes aroubd their heads so to say. Crime would be nonexistent in poor nehborhoods. And true love and godliness would reign among such people. But in reality where there is poverty and suffering there is also little grace and transformation.
It is always those who are rather well off and who carry a lot of weight (figuratively speaking) who seem to feel they have been sanctified and blessed. Life's good after all, for the rich and famous especially.
The story in +Luke about the rich man and a poor man Lazarus reminds us that after death the injustice is reversed. Yeah, try walking on walter first.
I certainly hope you mean WATER, as I don't think Walter would appreciate being walked on :>) You really should read the sermon I posted on my blog (see my tag line) about Peter walking on water :>)