{"id":26497,"date":"2026-02-05T09:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=26497"},"modified":"2026-02-05T09:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:45:12","slug":"sabbath-and-jubilee-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=26497","title":{"rendered":"Sabbath and Jubilee Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jireh | Elevation Worship &amp; Maverick City\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mC-zw0zCCtg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">There Is More Than Enough<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, February 5, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In a homily on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=john%206%3A1-15&amp;version=NRSVUE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the miracle of the loaves and fishes<\/a>, Father Richard Rohr encourages us to pray for a worldview of abundance instead of scarcity:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In&nbsp;<em>The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,<\/em>&nbsp;Steven Covey observed that one of the most universal patterns of highly effective people was that they had a worldview of abundance, while much of the world has a worldview of scarcity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We tend to get these worldviews very young, and they underlie almost everything. I, myself, tend to have a worldview of scarcity, growing up as I did as a child of parents who were born in the Depression and the Kansas dust storms. A worldview of scarcity tells us to protect what we have, because there\u2019s never enough to go around. It\u2019s a competitive, win\/lose worldview. <strong>It moves us toward anxiety, toward<\/strong> <strong>consumerism, and toward possessiveness, because we don\u2019t want to lose what \u201clittle\u201d we have<\/strong>\u2014even if what we have is really more than enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>But there\u2019s another worldview, the worldview of abundance<\/strong>. <strong>Sooner or later, we have to&nbsp;<em>choose<\/em>&nbsp;it, because it doesn\u2019t come naturally. I\u2019m convinced that it\u2019s the worldview of the gospel.<\/strong> It\u2019s a big world out there. There are a lot of options and opportunities. There\u2019s always another creative way to look at things. Let\u2019s be honest. Do we remember to look at life that way?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most people are afraid that they don\u2019t have enough. Of course, if we\u2019re dependent upon a finite source\u2014one limited amount of money, one limited intellect, one limited life\u2014it\u2019s easy to look at life in terms of scarcity, convincing ourselves that there isn\u2019t enough. There isn\u2019t enough of goodness. There isn\u2019t even enough of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The worldview of abundance depends upon us recognizing that we are in touch with an Infinite Source. If we\u2019ve never made contact with our Infinite Source, we will be stingy, even selfish.<\/strong> We will guard and hoard the portion we have. <strong>This affects much of our politics and policies in this country. We\u2019re always afraid that someone else is taking what we have earned, as if we had earned it entirely by ourselves. Most of it has been given to us, yes, by our work, but also by grace and freedom, and the choices of many other people, almost despite ourselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus represents the worldview of abundance in every one of his multiplication miracles and stories. There\u2019s always the making of much out of little and there are always baskets left over. That\u2019s the only possible message: There\u2019s plenty! If we learn to be creative, if we learn to be imaginative, if we learn to be a little less selfish, there\u2019s always another way to look at it and another way to make sure all are fed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Maybe a worldview of abundance is something we\u2019ll only fully experience when we learn to draw upon an <\/strong>I<strong>nfinite Source. If the Source is Infinite, we are infinite. If our source is finite, of course we are finite too.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Daily Bread Is Enough<\/strong><br>(Adapted from Henri Nouwen, <em>Bread for the Journey<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cGive us this day our daily bread.\u201d<br>\u2014 Matthew 6:11<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We often want bread for the next year, the next decade, the rest of our lives. We want guarantees. We want reserves. We want control.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Jesus teaches us to ask only for today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Daily bread is the spiritual discipline of trust<\/strong>. <strong>It invites us to believe that what we are given is sufficient <\/strong>\u2014 <strong>not because it is large, but because it is enough.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Scarcity is not always about lacking resources. Often it is the fear that tomorrow will not come with grace. We hoard because we are afraid<\/strong>. We compete because we are anxious. We grasp because we do not trust the Source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The prayer for daily bread is a refusal to live in fear of tomorrow.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It is a quiet rebellion against the myth that survival depends solely on accumulation. It reminds us that life flows from gift, not possession.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who trust daily bread become generous people. When we believe there is enough for today, we are freed to share today. <strong>When we believe tomorrow will come with mercy, we no longer need to clutch what we have.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abundance is not measured by how much we store, but by how freely we can give.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The miracle is not that we have everything.<br>The miracle is that what we are given is enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There Is More Than Enough Thursday, February 5, 2026 In a homily on&nbsp;the miracle of the loaves and fishes, Father Richard Rohr encourages us to pray for a worldview of abundance instead of scarcity: In&nbsp;The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,&nbsp;Steven Covey observed that one of the most universal patterns of highly effective people was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26497"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26499,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26497\/revisions\/26499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}