Treasure - For a cynical friend in mind

After "Treasure" was posted, I was reading of the biography of a pastor and the conversation between Saint Francis and Brother Masseo returned to me of a friend - who tends to see things in a very cynical manner. Friends often approach him for advice and counsel, even I do, as he does care and gives good counsel. Of course, many of us also like to approach him for his cynical attitude.
But as I recall this conversation, I ask if being cynical is part of being wise. Well, now I know it is not at all. I choose to know God's overpowering grace despite man's wickedness, rather just the latter.


And when Saint Francis saw that the pieces of bread obtained by Brother Masseo were far better and larger than his own, he was filled with great joy, and said,
"O Brother Masseo, we are not worthy of so great a treasure!" And when he had repeated these words many times,
Brother Masseo replied, "Dearest father, how can one call this treasure, when we are so poor, and lack so many things we need? We have no cloth, no knife, no dish, no bowl, no house, no table, and no man or woman to wait on us."
Then Saint Francis answered: “And that is what I call a great treasure, where nothing has been provided by human labour, but everything has been given by divine Providence, as we can see clearly in the bread that we have collected, in this fair table of stone, and in this spring of clear water. So I would have us pray God that he will cause us to love with all our hearts this treasure of Holy Poverty who is so noble that God himself is her servant.”