Winning the lottery

Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them. 
-Suzanne Necker
Perhaps it is really a blessing that God does not answer all those prayers to win the lottery so that we can do so much good with it. Few things create greater illusions and distortions in our life than wealth, especially wealth that we did not really earn.  Nothing wrong with wealth, in fact a real humanitarian can do untold good like Bill Gates, but wealth's aura of independence will more often than not reveal one's real attitude about God, neighbor and self.