Posts Tagged ‘abundance|quest-magazine-2015-10’

I’d like to tell you a story, a true story, that a friend of mine witnessed firsthand. It’s about a congregation in the midst of a holiday food drive for a local food bank.

The earth is our horn of plenty. She sends forth all manner of delicious food. She flowers and sends forth fruits and vegetables.

I haven’t always been abundance-minded or able to see or believe in life’s silver lining.

The CLF exists through the abundance and generosity of its community. Some give with their time, some with their presence, and some with money—and we are thankful for every gift!

I invite myself to grow my sense of abundance in these ways…

The story is told of Mulla Nasrudin, the Sufi wise fool. A rich man came to see him and said, “Nasrudin, if only you would learn to flatter the emperor and be subservient as I do, you would not have to live on chickpeas and bread.”

…that CLF offers religious education curricula to use at home or for congregations with mixed-aged groups of children?

Almost October, and there it was, draped over the fence, ripe as July, and as seductive—a stranger’s bit of paradise…