It's Enough

Today's blog post is based on the section entitled "The Way of Enough" from the chapter on "Consecration" from Wayne Muller's book "Sabbath".

God was so smart in designing manna for the people in exile. When you wake up in the morning, there it is. You could go out, gather it up and eat as much as you needed for the day. But, you couldn't, for instance, stock pile it over night, then gather up all the next day's manna, corner the market and set up shop. This is where God is smart -- manna spoils over night. You can't hoard it. You can't save it. Get what you need, have your fill, be satisfied -- there's enough. And, there will be enough tomorrow too.

We are not the people of the exodus. We aren't a wandering people, hunting and gathering what we need. We are settled. We have enough. Especially here, in the land of the "super store", we have enough. Even the poorest among us in this country have more than the rest of the poor in the world on average. But, we aren't living as if that is so.

We tend to hoard and stock pile and share in very stingy ways. If only we lived as if our resources were manna from heaven -- taking only what we needed for today so that everyone would have enough. Power would shift. Greed would become a non option in our world.

How might you live as if your resources are like manna from heaven? Would you share more of them? With others? With yourself? How would your life change if you knew you had enough?