Flying in the Slow LaneWritten by Maureen Killoran
Dogs distrust hot air balloons. I gathered this tidbit as my husband and I floated over mountains in a wicker gondola, listening to barking chorus that followed us even 3,000 feet into air. The burner evokes canine protest -- but we had no problems, as we drifted with currents and contemplated silent fog in its morning retreat over hills. We learned that a mere a six foot rise in altitude can change your direction, if your vehicle is a hot air balloon. We learned that tops of trees look a lot different from above, and birds look surprised if you greet them in their nest. We waved reassurance to cows whose moos voiced concern at our strange presence overhead and we called "good morning" to folk who blessed us with their waves. "Are those sheep?" my husband wondered,
| | Everybody WinsWritten by Debbie O'Meara
We all grew up playing games. In every game, there was a winner and a loser. For me to win, someone else (or lots of someone elses) had to lose. And it didn’t stop when we left playground. Did your teachers grade on a curve? Then every top grade had to be balanced out with a low one. How about getting that job, that promotion? There was a winner, and everyone else lost. Is it any wonder that we look at life as a zero-sum game, that every win comes at someone’s expense?When it comes to getting a given job, perhaps that’s so. But abundance principles teach us that that isn’t entire story. There is abundance, there is “winning,” to go around for everyone. The universe doesn’t choose some of us for success, favor some of us over others, doom some of us to mediocrity and dissatisfaction. And you know, intellectually, that God loves us all equally, right? So why is it so easy to believe that we will never have enough, or be enough? The concept of boundless abundance isn’t one we grow up with. We learn early that resources run out. And as humans, we are finite. We can only create so much, deliver so much. So whenever we are relying on humans, we face limits. And our experience has taught us not to trust other people to fill our every need. But we don't need to trust humans to deliver our abundance. We need to learn to trust God, to trust Divine Mind, to provide for us always. Is God so limited that He has already made all there is to make, that His abundance is finite, that we can only have what we take from someone else?
|
