Real Life Abundance

Real Life Abundance

It is still early enough in the year that people continue to make plans to nourish the idea of plenty and make it manifest for them.
Years ago an investment advisor told me, don’t wish to be rich. Let enough be your goal. Youth and inexperience were still biting my heels and it didn’t really sink in.

Now the advice to work for enough is some of the soundest advice to ever come my way. It’s funny how long it takes for some things to make sense!

We are entering an era in which human relationships will be treasured and honored.

For many of us our materialistic tendencies will pass as we seek to serve others instead of acquire more and more things.

And yes, we need food clothing and adequate shelter for ourselves and our families, but the real prize that our hearts seek is so serve other people at a point of immense need.

Recently a man came into the sphere of my horizon. He was a former fireman and had worked most of his life in hazard prevention and disaster relief. In the immense devastation of Hurricane Sandy, a person with experience and knowledge like this is of inestimable value.

He volunteered to help in the wake of one of the most destructive hurricanes on record and found himself in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He was so busy he had almost no time for anything except disaster relief.

When his work was done, he told about how much he loved what he did and talked about how meaningful it was to help people who had no food and who lost their house in the storm. He realized he did a good job and was able to get almost 700 people back on their feet.

His eyes welled with tears as he explained the richness of the light of the soul in extreme circumstances. He was grateful he could help people.

“After all,” he concluded, “that’s what life is all about and what I think we are here for.”

True abundant life consists of an abundance of love, joy, peace, and the rest of the fruits of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23), not an abundance of “stuff.” It consists of life that is eternal and, as such, our interest is in the eternal, not the temporal.

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Rebecca A Field

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