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LIVING ABUNDANCE DAILY
Abundance is not a windfall. It is not an occasional blessing. Instead, abundance is a choice . . . a choice we make daily . . . and a choice that changes our lives in every moment of every day, in small ways and in grand ways. Abundance is a way of life. It is not something that happens to us, but rather a way of living daily . . . every day of our lives. So let’s first define what we mean by abundance, then talk about several principles of daily living that can bring abundance into our lives. To me, abundance means having everything that we desire in our lives. It is definitely not just about financial abundance, although this is of course a part of it. We have abundance when our lives are secure . . . when we have love in our hearts . . . when our souls are filled to overflowing . . . when our minds are filled with peace. |
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By Kathleen Fimmel, LCSW
I had no idea what it would actually be like to live with one foot on the earth. Now, 5 days after bunion surgery on my right foot, I am experiencing my relationship with all of life so differently....especially with Juli, my beloved, who is having to wait on me "hand and foot," since my need to ambulate with a walker ties up both hands most of the time. I have become a needy and dependent cohort, and we just last week moved into a second home in the mountains, with all the assemblage that moving entails. I am not part of that assembly, but I am the dreaded "burden" I have sought my entire life not to be. Ah, the abundance in relationships!!!!!!
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by David Kupfer, Ph.D.
I recently went on a family trip to Poland. The main point of the trip was for my cousin Eva to introduce her family to Sister Klara Jarosynska, the nun who saved Eva’s life during World War II.
My cousin Eva was born in Warsaw in 1940. Her mother Fela was my father’s sister. Fela and her husband Abram lived in Warsaw before the war but were forced to move into the Ghetto when Eva was an infant. Knowing that trouble was coming, Abram had arranged that should they need help, they would call a cousin, Regina, who had a job as a prison guard that enabled her to wear a uniform that identified her as a respected official. One day the men in their section of the Ghetto were rounded up and locked in a building. All the women and children were loaded onto the train to Treblinka. Regina got the call, arrived just in time, and Fela was allowed to throw Eva from the train into Regina’s arms. Fela, having been told to pack a suitcase because they were just being relocated away from Warsaw, was wise enough to anticipate that it was death, not just resettlement, that lay at the end of the tracks. She had to go against the basic maternal instinct to hold your child close when in danger.
Fela’s action has always reminded me of Abraham in the Bible, who went against his paternal instinct when he was willing to sacrifice his son Isaac if that was what God asked of him. An angel kept Abraham from sacrificing Isaac. Eva had an angel too. |
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