True Abundance

This is how one of my spiritual teachers described the meaning of wealth.

"When I’m alone on a starlit night, in the moon’s rays, I see an osprey descending on the tip of a telephone pole, thoughtfully to feed his chicks; I'm with that animal.

When I visit a city park, I observe giggling children at play and my heart leaps in delight at their unsupressed loudness.

I walk along the shore of the Atlantic Ocean and waves caress my feet. I can’t help but feel in my heart, a surge of infinity from that moving water. I don’t want to hold onto anything. I want to let everything go, to fly to the heavens and be free."

I resonate with his teaching. I pray for that soaring of vision that empties us of our clinging, of our need for so many possessions. That vision fills me with beauty, and wonder, as if a giant cup of God's grace is being poured all over me.