The man who wrote the song "It Is Well With My Soul" wrote that song while sailing to Europe to pick up his wife who had just survived a shipwreck. The man's four daughters did not survive the wreck. The news was broken to him in a short telegram from his wife that said "Saved alone." The man's business interests had recently been destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire. He came to America by himself. His family had been waiting for him to save enough money to ship them over and join him. He managed to save enough despite the fire, but they died on the ship over. Listen to that song or read the story of Job in the Bible. I don't know if you have a Christian background but Jesus did not promise us happiness and material prosperity in this life. He said "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul?" and "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."