{"id":18438,"date":"2019-11-28T09:57:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T14:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=18438"},"modified":"2019-11-28T09:57:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T14:57:49","slug":"the-gift-of-sufficiency-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=18438","title":{"rendered":"The Gift of Sufficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


<\/strong>Thursday, November 28, 2019
Thanksgiving in the United States<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As long as we operate inside any scarcity model, there will never be enough God or grace to go around. Jesus came to undo our notions of scarcity and tip us over into a worldview of absolute abundance. The Gospel reveals a divine world of infinity, a worldview of enough and more than enough. The Christian word for this undeserved abundance is \u201cgrace.\u201d It is a major mental and heart <\/em>conversion to move from a scarcity model to an abundance model and to live with an attitude of gratitude. <\/em>[1]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lynne Twist, co-founder of The Pachamama Alliance, writes about the reality of abundance, which she calls \u201csufficiency,\u201d in her excellent book <\/em>The Soul of Money. The wisdom below might just nudge you over the line. Read with an open mind and heart.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We each have a choice in any setting to step back and let go of the mind-set of scarcity. Once we let go of scarcity, we discover the surprising truth of sufficiency. By sufficiency, I don\u2019t mean a quantity of anything. . . . Sufficiency isn\u2019t an amount at all. It is an experience, a context we generate, a declaration, a knowing that there is enough and that we are enough. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we live in the context of sufficiency, we find a natural freedom and integrity. We engage in life from a sense of our own wholeness rather than a desperate longing to be complete. We feel naturally called to share the resources that flow through our lives\u2014our time, our money, our wisdom, our energy, at whatever level those resources flow\u2014to serve our highest commitments. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sufficiency as a way of being offers us enormous personal freedom and possibility. Rather than scarcity\u2019s myths that tell us that the only way to perceive the world is there\u2019s not enough, more is better, <\/em>and that\u2019s just the way it is, <\/em>the truth of sufficiency asserts that there is enough for everyone. Knowing there is enough inspires sharing, collaboration, and contribution. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grounded in sufficiency, money\u2019s movement in and out of our life feels natural. We can see that flow as healthy and true, and allow that movement instead of being anxious about it or hoarding. In sufficiency, we recognize and celebrate money\u2019s power for good\u2014our<\/em> power to do good with it\u2014and we can experience fulfillment in directing the flow toward our highest ideals and commitments. When we perceive the world as one in which there is enough and we are enough to make the world work for everyone everywhere, with no one left out, our money carries that energy and generates relationships and partnerships in which everyone feels able and valued, regardless of their economic circumstances. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No matter how much or how little money you have flowing through your life, when you direct that flow with soulful purpose, you feel wealthy. You feel vibrant and alive when you use your money in a way that represents you, not just as a response to the market economy, but also as an expression of who you are. [2]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On this holiday in the United States, when many of us pause to give thanks, let us consider how we can allow what we have in \u201csufficiency\u201d to flow from us, no matter what it is\u2014compassion, joy, humility, time, and yes, even money<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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