Monika Hellwig's "advantages" to being poor

During the morning service at my church, our minister shared a list of ten statements written by Monika Hellwig (source: The Jesus I Never Knew by Philip Yancy, Thomas Nelson publishers, 1995, page 115).

Here's the list Rev. Lynskey shared on Sunday morning:

1. The poor know they are in urgent need of redemption.
   
   
2. The poor know not only their dependence on God and on powerful people but also their interdependence with one another.
   
   
3. The poor rest their security not on things but on people.
   
   
4. The poor have no exaggerated sense of their own importance, and no exaggerated need of privacy.
   
   
5. The poor expect little from competition and much from cooperation.
   
   
6. The poor can distinguish between necessities and luxuries.
   
   
7. The poor can wait, because they have acquired a kind of dogged patience born of acknowledged dependence.
   
   
8. The fears of the poor are more realistic and less exaggerated, because they already know that one can survive great suffering and want.
   
   
9. When the poor have the Gospel preached to them, it sounds like good news and not like a threat or a scolding.
   
   
10. The poor can respond to the call of the Gospel with a certain abandonment and uncomplicated totality because they have so little to lose and are ready for anything.

We were challenged to replace the word "poor" with "I" and explore how we do or do not fit with these statements.

Thoughts?